Plan Track And Release Great Applications With Jira Software 2nd Edition

Are you tired of managing your software development projects in a disorganized manner? Do you want to streamline your team's workflow and improve productivity? Look no further! The second edition of "Plan Track And Release Great Applications With Jira Software" is here to help you take control of your development process.

What is Jira Software?

Jira Software is a powerful project management tool specifically designed for software development teams. It provides a flexible and customizable platform to plan, track, and release applications efficiently. With its user-friendly interface and extensive features, Jira Software empowers teams to collaborate effectively, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software within deadlines.

Jira Software Essentials: Plan, track, and release great applications with Jira Software, 2nd Edition

by Patrick Li(2nd Edition, Kindle Edition)

4.1 out of 5

Language	:	English
File size	:	47740 KB
Text-to-Speech	:	Enabled
Screen Reader	:	Supported
Enhanced typesetting	:	Enabled
Print length	:	194 pages

FREE

Why Use Jira Software?

Regardless of the size of your team or project, Jira Software offers numerous benefits that make it an indispensable tool in the software development industry.

1. Agile Methodology Support

Jira Software fully supports Agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban. It allows you to create user stories, set priorities, and track the progress of individual sprints. The Jira Agile boards provide real-time visibility into your team's work, making it easier to adapt to changing requirements and deliver incremental value to your customers.

2. Seamless Integration

Jira Software seamlessly integrates with a wide range of development tools, including version control systems like Git and Bitbucket, continuous integration tools like Jenkins, and communication tools like Slack. This integration simplifies your team's workflow and reduces context switching, allowing them to focus on what they do best - developing great software.

3. Powerful Reporting and Analytics

With Jira Software, you can generate various reports and charts to gain valuable insights into your team's performance. Track burn-down charts, sprint velocity, and issue statistics to identify bottlenecks and optimize your development process. Make data-driven decisions to improve efficiency and deliver exceptional software.

4. Customization and Extensibility

Jira Software provides a highly customizable platform, allowing you to tailor it to your team's specific needs. Create custom workflows, fields, and issue types to match your development process. Extend Jira's functionality with a vast marketplace of add-ons and integrations. With Jira Software, you have the flexibility to adapt the tool to your unique requirements.

What's New in the 2nd Edition?

The second edition of "Plan Track And Release Great Applications With Jira Software" brings updated content and additional chapters to help you unleash the full potential of Jira Software. Learn about the latest features and enhancements introduced in recent versions, such as next-gen projects, advanced roadmaps, and improved mobile apps.

The book covers in detail how to:

• Set up and configure Jira Software for your project
• Create and manage user stories and tasks
• Track and prioritize work using Agile boards
• Generate reports and analyze team performance
• Integrate Jira with popular development tools
• Customize Jira to fit your team's needs
• And much more!

If you're serious about taking your software development projects to the next level, "Plan Track And Release Great Applications With Jira Software 2nd Edition" is a must-read. Learn from industry experts and optimize your development process using Jira Software's extensive features. Take control of your projects, improve collaboration, and deliver exceptional software with Jira Software 2nd Edition.

Jira Software Essentials: Plan, track, and release great applications with Jira Software, 2nd Edition

by Patrick Li(2nd Edition, Kindle Edition)

4.1 out of 5

Language	:	English
File size	:	47740 KB
Text-to-Speech	:	Enabled
Screen Reader	:	Supported
Enhanced typesetting	:	Enabled
Print length	:	194 pages

FREE

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.

Table of Contents

1. Jira Software Basics
2. Jira Software for Scrum
3. Jira Software for Kanban
4. Using Jira Software Your Way
5. Customizing Jira Software
6. Jira Software – Advanced
7. Jira Software – Release and Deploy