Ravi Sagar - Jira Quick Start Guide: Manage your projects efficiently using the all-new Jira

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Ravi Sagar is an Atlassian consultant and Drupal expert with several years of experience in web development and business analysis. He has done extensive work implementing and customizing big Jira instances for project tracking, test management, support tickets, and Agile tracking.

Ravi founded Sparxsys Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010a start-up company that provides consultancy and training services on Atlassian tools and Drupal. He has a keen interest in building accessible websites, adhering to WCAG guidelines, and is the author of Mastering Jira 7 - Second Edition and multiple Jira 7 video training courses. In his free time, he loves blogging on his website, where he writes regularly about topics such as DevOps and programming.

Raul Pelaez Mendoza is an Atlassian Jira Expert based in Barcelona with more than 7 years of experience in the Atlassian Ecosystem and more than 20 years of experience in the implementation of Java-based systems for project management offices in diverse public and private international corporations.

Specialist in business process outsourcing (BPO) and operations management. Currently working at Ankonan doing consulting services, training courses, and the administration of the Atlassian platforms of diverse companies.

Technical Engineer in Computer Systems, Technology Teacher Certificate, SNOMED-CT/HL7/CDA Certified. Specialist in Intellectual Property Expertise. IT-Forensics Expert. Certified Blockchain Solution Architect (CBSA).

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Jira Quick Start Guide is focused on getting you started with Jira very quickly, and is written specially with this objective in mind. Like any other tool, Jira also has a learning curve, but quite often, you don't want to spend weeks or even months just evaluating the product. This book will give you sufficient knowledge of using the tool not just as a user, but also as an administrator. The book starts by giving you a very good overview of Jira and how it can help you, then talks about Jira basics that will help you understand how it can be applied in your project. Later chapters are focused on exploring the customization capabilities of Jira to empower you with the knowledge of various schemes that cannot be ignored if you want to use Jira for your project.

This book will be especially useful for project managers, but is 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. We will cover how to configure projects and boards, customize workflows, and manage project permissions in Jira. This book provides a comprehensive explanation covering all major applications of Jira, including Jira Software, Jira Service Desk, and Jira Core. It will cover planning and setting up a new Jira instance. We will talk about key features such as understanding the basic usage of the tools, setting up workflows for processes, and other things such as reporting in Jira and an understanding of various best practices.

Primarily, the book is focused on project managers, developers, and service desk agents, as well as business users with, of course, good exposure to Jira administration concepts.