Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Creating Projects, is about getting setting up your first JIRA project. We'll talk about why JIRA is so popular and where it came from. We'll also talk about creating an account with Atlassian so that you can get started using JIRA in the cloud. We'll look into the projects themselves and how we use a project to organize all work items. We'll then look into screens, workflows, and permissions, which will allow us to customize our project, and the views, notifications, and permissions that go along with it.

Chapter 2, Managing Work Items, is all about the difference between epics, stories, bugs, and tasks; learning what the different types of issues are, and why we would use each one. We'll ...