Book description
If you're familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar clarifies some of the more confusing aspects by answering difficult and frequently asked questions about JIRA administration.
Practical JIRA Administration shows you how JIRA is intended to be used, making it an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available. The book’s chapters are loosely connected, so you can go straight to the information that best serves your needs.
- Understand the difference between JIRA groups and JIRA project roles
- Discover what JIRA schemes do, and learn how to maintain them
- Use a consistent configuration approach to help you use JIRA as a platform
- Create a workflow from scratch
- Add, modify, and deactivate users
- Prepare for a JIRA upgrade, and troubleshoot if necessary
- Get remote access to JIRA via email, SQL, REST, and other methods
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Groups Versus Roles
- 2. Resolved, Resolution, and Resolution Date
- 3. Understanding Schemes
- 4. JIRA as a Platform
- 5. Creating a Workflow from Scratch
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6. Custom Fields
- Overview
- What’s the Big Deal with Custom Fields?
- Choosing Custom Field Types
- What is a Custom Field Context?
- Limiting Contexts
- Adding Contexts
- Dangers of Custom Field Contexts
- Screens and Field Configurations and Custom Field Contexts, Oh My!
- Where Is My Field?
- Minimizing the Number of Custom Fields
- Reducing the Number of Custom Fields
- Dos and Don’ts
- 7. The User Lifecycle
- 8. Planning a JIRA Upgrade
- 9. Remote Access to JIRA
- 10. Migrating Data into JIRA
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11. Jiraargh! Frustrations
- Overview
- Add-Ons That Should Be Standard
- Frustrations with Fields
- Frustrations with Actions
- More Information Needed!
- Frustrations with Email
- Learning JIRA Safely
- Too Many Administrators
- Automating Your Configuration
- Debugging Your Configuration
- Managing Custom Fields
- Managing Projects
- Further Reading
- Index
Product information
- Title: Practical JIRA Administration
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2011
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449305413
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