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Jira Software Essentials - Second Edition
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Jira Software Essentials - Second Edition

by Patrick Li
January 2018
Beginner
192 pages
4h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Issues and issue types

Every unit of work in Jira, such as a story or an epic, is uniformly referred to as an issue. Each issue has a field called issue type, which represents the type and purpose of the issue. For example, in a Scrum project, we would have the following issue types by default:

  • Epic: This represents a big user story that has not been broken down into finer-grained requirements. In Jira, epics are usually used to define the "theme" for several stories that will be part of it, as well as modules or major components in a big development project.
  • Story: This represents a single feature to be implemented. It is usually used to capture requirements from the end user's perspective. For this reason, stories are often written in ...
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