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

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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and now works as a senior engineer there. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over ten years, developing products and solutions, and providing expert consulting services across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies. He has authored numerous books and video courses covering Atlassian Jira, from versions 4 to 7, including Jira Agile (now Jira Software) and Jira Service Desk.

Miroslav Kralik is a product owner and DevOps evangelist at MSD IT Global Innovation Center (known as Merck in the US and Canada). He focuses on DevOps and integration of different tools in the entire development chain, where Jira belongs as an issue and bug tracking system. One of his responsibilities is to promote the DevOps culture and tools in the company in the form of writing good practices and conducting training sessions, evangelism, and workshops (onsite/remote) in US, Asia, and Europe.

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Agile software development is a new and revolutionary way of developing software. Many organizations have adopted agile over the traditional waterfall model, as it lets development teams to produce software of better quality, higher customer satisfaction, and improved efficiency. Jira Software brings the power of agile to Atlassian Jira, the most popular enterprise issue tracking and project management system.

With Jira Software, you will be able to enjoy all the features you love with Jira, such as custom fields and flexible workflows, and also use agile to manage and run your projects.

If you want to get started with using agile with Jira Software, then this is the perfect book for you. Perhaps, you have used agile to run your projects before or are just looking to try agile outJira Software is the perfect tool to get started.

You will need to be familiar with the basics of Jira, both from an end user's perspective and an administrator's perspective. Experience with workflows, custom fields, and other administrative functions of Jira will be useful. Prior experience with agile is not required but is useful.

This book is organized into seven chapters, starting with an overview of Jira Software and how to install the software. We then move on to introducing the two main agile methodologies, Scrum and Kanban, and how to use Jira Software with them. In the last two chapters, we go beyond the basics and look at ways to further customize Jira Software to extract more value out of it.

With each chapter, you will learn important concepts, including the agile methodologies themselves and how Jira Software lets you take advantage of them.

, Jira Software Basics, serves as the starting point of the book and aims to guide you through installing the Jira Software and getting it up and running. This chapter is also a gentle introduction, covering the basic concepts and terminologies used in Jira Software, and will lay the foundation for subsequent chapters.

, Jira Software for Scrum, covers using Jira Software for the Scrum methodology, starting with a high-level overview of Scrum, and then describes how Jira Software can be used to run projects with Scrum.

, Jira Software for Kanban, covers using Jira Software for the Kanban methodology. This chapter starts with an introduction to Kanban and how to use Jira Software to run Kanban-based projects.