Ultimate Agile Administration With Jira

Empowering Administrators and Teams With Ultimate Solutions for Agile Project Success with Jira Software KEY FEATURES ● Step-by-step customization and administration of Jira with real-world examples and use cases. ● Explores the full potential of Jira Advanced Roadmap for strategic project planning and execution. ● Create projects in the Jira Cloud environment to cater to the demands of cloud-based project management. DESCRIPTION The “Ultimate Agile Administration with Jira” begins with an in-depth exploration of Agile fundamentals, providing a comprehensive overview of Scrum and Kanban frameworks. Readers will gain proficiency in setting up projects, covering the Jira product family, key terminologies, and project templates. Readers will learn to create boards and implement Agile best practices within Jira. It will help to configure boards for visualizing team progress, planning sprints, and efficiently prioritizing and estimating tasks. It offers insights into Jira administration, guiding customization of workflows, screens, and issues to meet unique team requirements and seamlessly integrate them into existing projects. In the final section, the book explores team-managed projects in Jira, covering Filters, Dashboards, Reporting, and Automation Rules. Tips and tricks are also provided to optimize team productivity. The book offers an overview of Atlassian Marketplace plugins, Atlassian Analytics, and Jira Product Discovery. It comprehensively explores the features of the Jira Advanced Roadmap. This book is an invaluable asset for aspiring Jira Administrators preparing for Atlassian certification. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN ● Master the fundamentals of Agile methodology and Jira administration tailored for the Jira Cloud version. ● Navigate and implement basic to advanced features of Jira, ensuring seamless integration with Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies. ● Administer Jira software with customization aligned to your organization's unique business requirements. ● Gain practical insights through real-life scenarios, examples, and essential tips, guiding you through the entire Agile project life-cycle within Jira. ● Dive into the intricacies of Jira Advanced Roadmap features to enhance project planning and execution. ● Explore and integrate feature-rich plugins from the Atlassian Marketplace, expanding your Jira environment's functionality and adapting it to your unique needs. WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? Whether you're a tech or non-tech professional, student, software developer, or an aspiring Atlassian-certified individual, this handbook is for you. It provides in-depth insights into effective Jira software administration and is well-suited for individuals with foundational Jira knowledge. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Getting Started with Agile, Jira, and Jira Terminologies 2. Working with Project Templates 3. Creating Users, Groups, Roles, and Understanding Permissions 4. Managing Backlog, Sprints, and Boards 5. Understanding Issue types and Issue type Schemes 6. Customizing Fields, Field Configuration schemes, Screens, and Screen schemes 7. Configuring Workflows in Jira in Agile Projects 8. Filters, Dashboards, and Agile Reporting 9. Jira Automation Rules 10. Managing Team- Managed Projects 11. Jira Best Practices and Must-know Features in Advanced Roadmaps 12. Atlassian Marketplace and Plugins Index

Explore Jira Software to manage your projects proficiently Key Features Plan and manage projects effortlessly with Jira Software by integrating it with other applications Improve your team's performance with Scrum and Kanban, together with agile methodology Easy-to-follow learning guide to install Jira Software and understand how it fits in with Atlassian Jira Book Description Jira Software is an agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, Kanban, or your own unique flavour. From agile boards to reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool. Jira Software brings the power of agile methodology to Atlassian Jira. This second edition of JIRA Agile Essentials, will help you dive straight into the action, exploring critical agile terminologies and concepts in the context of Jira Software. You will learn how to plan, track, and release great software. This book will teach you how to install and run Jira Software and set it up to run with Scrum and Kanban. It will also teach you to use Jira Software your way and run projects beyond the out-of-box Scrum and Kanban way, including a hybrid approach of both the methodologies and other options that come with Jira Software. Later, you will learn how to integrate it with the tools you are already using and enhance Jira with add-ons such as Confluence. You will learn to stay connected with your team from anywhere to ensure great development. Jira Software has numerous deployment options in the cloud, on your own infrastructure, or at a massive scale. You will be introduced to Bitbucket, Atlassian’s distributed version control system, which integrates seamlessly with Jira, allowing your team to work within the two applications as one harmonious environment. With this practical guide, you will develop a great working knowledge of Jira Software and your project management will become much more efficient. What you will learn Understand the basics and agile methodologies of Jira software Use Jira Software in a Scrum environment Manage and run Jira Software projects beyond the out of box Scrum and Kanban way Combine Scrum and Kanban and use other project management options beyond just agile Customize Jira Software’s various features and options as per your requirements Work with Jira Agile offline, and plan and forecast projects with agile portfolio Integrate Jira Agile with Confluence and Bitbucket Who this book is for If you want to get started with Jira Software and learn how to run your Jira projects the agile way, then this is the perfect book for you. You will need to be familiar with the basics of Jira, both from an end user's and an administrator's perspective. Experience with workflows, custom fields, and other administrative functions of Jira will be useful.

JIRA Agile (formerly known as GreenHopper) is a plugin that adds agile project management to any JIRA project. It allows you to visualize your existing process and stimulate incremental improvement. JIRA Agile brings the power of agile methodology to Atlassian JIRA. With JIRA Agile Essentials you will dive straight into the action, exploring critical agile terminologies and concepts in the context of JIRA Agile. Learn to install and run JIRA Agile, and set it up to run with Scrum and Kanban. Collaborate with your colleagues to define requirements, create user stories, and manage and plan sprints based on the availability of your members. Create reports and share your project progress with other stakeholders. With this practical guide, you will develop a great working knowledge of JIRA Agile and make your project management much more efficient.

Accelerate business value delivery with Jira Align, the enterprise agile planning platform, by connecting strategy with execution to maximize outcomes Key FeaturesImprove coordination and transparency between multiple programs, products, and business portfoliosIncrease customer satisfaction by responding quickly to ever-evolving customer needsDeliver higher quality products faster and more predictably with real-time insights and OKR trackingBook Description Jira Align is a platform purpose-built for enterprises to connect strategy with execution and drive transparency, consistency, and predictability at all levels of scale. The platform supports business value delivery in agile frameworks such as LeSS, DAD, and SAFe. It also caters to organizations that mix agile with waterfall to support scaled bimodal delivery. Starting with an introduction to the platform and its features, this book takes you through the foundational building blocks of Jira Align. You'll learn how an organization can benefit from implementing Jira Align and understand how to connect dimensions such as people, work, time, and outcomes. The book takes you through the typical steps for implementing Jira Align for maximizing outcomes and helps you solve common team, program, and portfolio-level challenges by enhancing visibility, tracking dependencies and risks, and using reports for real-time, distributed decision making. Throughout the book, you'll explore features such as remote agile ceremonies, live roadmaps, and objectives and key results (OKRs). You'll also get to grips with lean portfolio management, financial reporting, and using the program board for planning and execution. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in the key features of Jira Align and be able to leverage them to support all levels of agile at scale. What you will learnUnderstand Jira Align's key factors for successFind out how you can connect people, work, time, and outcomes with Jira AlignNavigate and collaborate in Jira AlignScale team agility to the portfolio and enterpriseDelve into planning and execution, including roadmaps and predictability metricsImplement lean portfolio management and OKRsGet to grips with handling bimodal and hybrid deliveryEnable advanced data security and analytics in Jira AlignWho this book is for This book is for portfolio managers, program managers, product managers, product owners, executives, release train engineers, and scrum masters who want to empower their teams to deliver the right things at the right time and quickly respond to changes in the market. Familiarity with agile frameworks and Jira Software is necessary; the book will teach you the rest.

Practical guidance to Implement AGILE, KANBAN, XP and SCRUM with 600+ Expert Solutions included Ê KEY FEATURESÊÊ _ Supportive materials for PMI-ACP and SAFe exam preparation. _ Proven use-cases on implementation of Kanban, Agile and Scrum across business projects. _ 600+ interview questions, quizzes and business solutions to acquire lucrative Agile project management jobs. DESCRIPTIONÊ This book is a pragmatic guidance teaching modern IT professionals how to improvise and scale up IT delivery capabilities using leading project management methodologies including Agile and Kanban. It is equipped with use-cases and hundreds of solutions and the readers will learn to examine the strength of their project management function and how to improvise it. The book brings exclusive knowledge on several strategies to put into implementation in the event of natural disaster like Covid-19 and for future crisis management. You will be acquainted with the popular tools and technologies that your organization can make use of it for better collaboration on projects. You will learn the various project performance metrics for each of these project management methodologies. As an added advantage of this book, you can get yourself ready for one of the popular and critical professional examinations like PMP-ACP and SAFe. Key strategies to beat Covid-19 Pandemic and for crisis management Key enablers to build Organizational Resilience and enterprise maturity model Portfolio/ Upstream Kanban implementations lessons learnt and key takeaways PMI-ACP and SAFe exam preparation Tricky Real-world Agile SCRUM & KANBAN Case Studies, Demos and tools Interview Questions and answers on Agile SCRUM, XP, DSDM, KANBAN and SCRUMBAN Useful Tips & techniques for successful Agile transformation in any Organization and The Art of Agile Development Agile & Kanban Metrics JIRA tool use in Projects / Programs WHAT YOU WILL LEARN _ Gain strong hold on concepts of KANBAN, XP, FDD, DSDM, SCRUMBAN and SCRUM.ÊÊÊÊ _ Exclusive coverage on strategies to beat Covid-19 Pandemic and future crisis management. _ Learn to build Organizational Resilience and enterprise maturity model. _ Ready guidance to prepare for PMI-ACP and SAFe certification. _ Tricky Real-world Agile SCRUM & KANBAN Case Studies, Demos and tools. WHO THIS BOOK IS FORÊÊ This book is for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Developers, CXOs and professionals closely associated with Agile Scrum, Kanban, XP projects to further improve their knowledge of Agile with valuable pragmatic insights. Experienced-level professionals and Agile enthusiasts having relevant experience can also acquire an in-depth knowledge of the advanced concepts in project management. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Key success factors for adopting Agile SCRUM Kanban in any organizations 2. Why Personal Agility matters 3. Tricky Real-world Agile SCRUM & KANBAN Case Studies, Demos and tools 4. Agile SCRUM KANBAN Maturity assessment Nuts & Bolts 5. Useful Tips & techniques for successful Agile transformation in any Organization and The Art of Agile Development 6. Common Agile SCRUM KANBAN misconceptions 7. Key Takeaways 8. Glossary 9. Quiz Session 10. Test your Knowledge

Plan, track, and release great software Key Features Learn to create reports and dashboard for effective project management Implement your development strategy in JIRA. Practices to help you manage the issues in the development team Book Description As teams scale in size, project management can get very complicated. One of the best tools to deal with this kind of problem is JIRA. This book will start by organizing your project requirements and the principles of Agile development to get you started. You will then be introduced to set up a JIRA account and the JIRA ecosystem to help you implement a dashboard for your team's work and issues. You will learn how to manage any issues and bugs that might emerge in the development stage. Going ahead, the book will help you build reports and use them to plan the releases based on the study of the reports. Towards the end, you will come across working with the gathered data and create a dashboard that helps you track the project's development. What you will learn Create your first project (and manage existing projects) in JIRA Manage your board view and backlogs in JIRA Run a Scrum Sprint project in JIRA Create reports (including topic-based reports) Forecast using versions Search for issues with JIRA Query Language (JQL) Execute bulk changes to issues Create custom filters, dashboards, and widgets Create epics, stories, bugs, and tasks Who this book is for This book is for administrators who wants to apply the Agile approach to managing the issues, bugs, and releases in their software development projects using JIRA.

Explore Jira Software to manage your projects proficiently Key Features Plan and manage projects effortlessly with Jira Software by integrating it with other applications Improve your team's performance with Scrum and Kanban, together with agile methodology Easy-to-follow learning guide to install Jira Software and understand how it fits in with Atlassian Jira Book Description Jira Software is an agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, Kanban, or your own unique flavour. From agile boards to reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool. Jira Software brings the power of agile methodology to Atlassian Jira. This second edition of JIRA Agile Essentials, will help you dive straight into the action, exploring critical agile terminologies and concepts in the context of Jira Software. You will learn how to plan, track, and release great software. This book will teach you how to install and run Jira Software and set it up to run with Scrum and Kanban. It will also teach you to use Jira Software your way and run projects beyond the out-of-box Scrum and Kanban way, including a hybrid approach of both the methodologies and other options that come with Jira Software. Later, you will learn how to integrate it with the tools you are already using and enhance Jira with add-ons such as Confluence. You will learn to stay connected with your team from anywhere to ensure great development. Jira Software has numerous deployment options in the cloud, on your own infrastructure, or at a massive scale. You will be introduced to Bitbucket, Atlassian's distributed version control system, which integrates seamlessly with Jira, allowing your team to work within the two applications as one harmonious environment. With this practical guide, you will develop a great working knowledge of Jira Software and your project management will become much more efficient. What you will learn Understand the basics and agile methodologies of Jira software Use Jira Software in a Scrum environment Manage and run Jira Software projects beyond the out of box Scrum and Kanban way Combine Scrum and Kanban and use other project management options beyond just agile Customize Jira Software's various features and options as per your requirements Work with Jira Agile offline, and plan and forecast projects with agile portfolio Integrate Jira Agile with Confluence and Bitbucket Who this book is for If you want to get started with Jira Software and learn how to run your Jira projects the agile way, then this is the perfect book for you. You will need to be familiar with the basics of Jira, both from an end user's and an administrator's perspective. Experience with workflows, custom fields, and other administrative functions of Jira will be useful.

Publisher's note: A new sixth edition, updated with enhanced Jira 8.21 and Data Center features has now been published. Key Features Work on agile projects in Jira from both the administrator and end user's perspective Explore the improved Scrum and Kanban board and backlog Work through exercises at the end of each chapter to reinforce your skills Book Description Atlassian Jira enables effective bug tracking for your software and mobile applications and provides tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. Jira Essentials is a comprehensive guide, now updated to Jira 8 to include enhanced features such as updates to Scrum and Kanban UI, additional search capabilities, and changes to Jira Service Desk. The book starts by explaining how to plan and set up a new Jira 8 instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, business processes, and much more. You'll then understand Jira's data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book delves into the different issues that can arise in your projects. You'll explore fields, including custom fields, and learn to use them for more effective data collection. You'll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. The book also covers workflows and business processes, and guides you in setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers. Toward the end, you'll study Jira's security model and Jira Service Desk, which allows you to run Jira as a support portal. By the end of this Jira book, you will be able to implement Jira 8 in your projects with ease. What you will learn Understand Jira's data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects in Jira Use Jira for agile software projects, business process management, customer service support, and more Understand issues and work with them Design both system and custom fields to behave differently under different contexts Create and design your own screens and apply them to different project and issue types Gain an understanding of the workflow and its various components Set up both incoming and outgoing mail servers to work with e-mails Who this book is for This book will be especially useful for project managers but it's also intended for other Jira users, including developers, and any other industry besides software development, who would like to leverage Jira's powerful task management and workflow features to better manage their business processes.