Table of Contents
- What can you do with Jira?
- What are the benefits and features of Jira?
- How to get started with Jira?
Jira is one of the best software used for agile development. It is built for a better team contribution and to deliver an amazing product.
Your Team members can plan and track the whole work and release a winning software. You will be guided to get a start with Jira with this tutorial.
What can you do with Jira?
- Plan – You can plan your sprints, get involved in user stories and issues, and divide the workload with your team.
- Track – You can Track Your Teammate’s progress and assign the work among them with a better view of all the team members in full context.
- Release – By having recorded updates of the product, You can ship the product with more Confidence.
- Report – You can improve the work based on the real-time updates from your teammates.
What are the benefits and features of Jira?
- Choosing a workflow – Every development team develops its product in its way. So you can choose a workflow that suits your developing process or create your workflow for better performance.
- Integrating with developer tools and apps – Confluence, Bitbucket are some popular tools among the hundreds of development tools that you can integrate with Jira. Knowledge management,auto-updating development workflow, continuous integration, and deployment are some great work that you can do with Jira integrations.
- Connecting the teamwork to your roadmap – You can build smart, reliable plans for your team and ship a great product fast by observing the road map of the connected team.
- Jira automation – Jira automation is a great tool to work with to stay focused and save your time by working smarter.
- Security – Jira is compatible with many advanced security features.GDPR and Privacy-Shield ensure that your data is handled with care. Jira uses data encryption to protect your organization’s data. Jira software security is verified with SOC2, SOC3, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, and more. Also, Atlassian access guides Jira to enhanced administration, Security backups, 2 step verification, and automated user provisioning to enhance security.
- Scalability – Jira software has a premium version that lets you scale with 99.9% uptime SLAs,24×7 Premium support, unlimited storage, and more scalability options as you need.
How to get started with Jira?
Step 1: Create a Jira account
Create a Jira account By Using this link. I have chosen a free Jira account for a demonstration. Select Jira Software from the given options.
Step 2: Sign-in and provide site name
You can sign in with your Google account or email as your wish. Click Create Your account and Give a valid site name to build your site. Click “Agree and sign up”.
Step 3: Personalize as per selected options
You can personalize your work according to your work criteria, job role.
Step 4: Add team members and send invite
Add your team members by emailing them as in the following screen or you can skip that to add later.
Step 5: Provide feedback
Select your experience with Jira, Experience with agile, working area, and schedule.
Step 6: Choose project template
You can create a Kanban Agile project or a Scrum Agile project. I have created a scrum agile project here.
Kanban – Kanban is suitable for teams working with bugs who need a quick delivery. It focuses on rapid assignment and working on the correct order.
Scrum – Scrum agile is best for teams who work with new feature development with a tight deadline. These teams can manage their work by working into iterative hatches named as sprints.
Step 7: Create project
Give a project name and Create your project.
Step 8: Launch dashboard. DONE!
You can see the dashboard after you have successfully created your project. Now It’s time to start your work.
You can see some settings on the left side.”Roadmap” is called as the timeline of your project. It helps to see the progress of your project. You can create issues of your project using the backlog section. There are three types of issues called bugs, tasks, and Story.
You can manage a to-do list, in-progress works, and complete work using the Board section. Pages are the documents related to your project. By using the Add Item section You will be able to add a repository or an item.
You can view your work, projects, filters, Dashboards, and people in the project by using the menu bar items. Use supportive integrations and apps to your projects using apps. You can create another project by using “Create”.
That’s pretty much the basics of Jira and you can play around to become familiar with it using the information above. It is a great platform to manage your work.