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A Simple

guide for
JIRA
AUTHOR: MAYANK JAIN

DEC 2024
What is JIRA?
It is a very flexible and powerful project management
01.
tool.

Issue tracker that can be extended into a bug tracker,


02. service desk and/or a feature-rich project management
tool for agile teams.

Jira Software is particularly geared to the responsive,


03. iterative and customercentric work patterns of the agile
methodology.

Provide tools to estimate, report and measure velocity


04.
with workflows designed to fit required frameworks.

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Who uses JIRA?

Agile teams Product management teams

Bug Tracking teams Project management teams

DevOps teams Software management teams

Collection of tasks that need to be completed to achieve a


01.
certain outcome

Highly configurable and can be easily customized to map


02. around organizational structure, workflow, or level of agile
maturity.

Use a JIRA Project to project to track and resolve bugs,


03.
launch a new feature, and more.

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Key elements of JIRA Project

WORKFLOW
ISSUES PEOPLE
Process from
Projects are Invite users
creation
broken into and teams for
through
small pieces collaborating
completion

JIRA Templates
JIRA has many templates, but the 2 most popular ones used
are:

SCRUM KANBAN

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SCRUM KANBAN

Breakdown large pieces of Limit work in progress and


work to manageable pieces. focus on continuous flow of
Delliver work in short, time work.
boxes periods called sprints. Provide transparency as
Enable use of backlog and work moves from to-do to
board done.
Design, manage and
improve workflow

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JIRA issues can be used in variety of ways

01. Track individual pieces of work that must be completed.

A JIRA Issue could be as a projct task, request form or


02.
helpdesk ticket as it has many types.

Typically it represent individual work items such as big


03.
features, user requirements, and software bugs

It can show work progress or add relevant info such


04. as who is assigned to the work, in-depth description, or
attachments.

JIRA issue types


EPIC REQUIREMENT

STORY BUG

TASK SUB-TASK

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Path the issues take from creation to completion is called
01.
workflow.

Each workflow is composed of a set of statuses and


transitions that the issue moves through during its lifecycle
02.
and typically represents work processes within the
organization. This can be cutomized as per each teams need.

Sample Workflow

Jira enables teams to more accurately capture their workflows by associating different workflows with different issue types

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1. Create
To start creating a JIRA issue, click on the Create button to open the create pop-up
Create issue

Project

Enter the relevant project name as created by your company.

Issue Type

Select the issue type (Epic, Story, Bug, Task, Sub-Task or if any
other company specific type is provided)

Summary

Give a brief about the issue

Desription

Give a detailed description of the issue by explaining the need,


problem, solution, steps and whatever is required for the
reader to understand the issue in depth.

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There are few more fields which although non mandatory, but if filled will help in
organizing the JIRA much better.

Priority
Enter the priority of the issue which can be high, medium, low,
critical, etc.

Labels
Giving a label to the issue helps in organizing and identifying
the issue much effeciently. Label is company specific.

Linked Issues
Link 1 or many issues in JIRA which can either be a parent,
blocker, duplicate or simply related (there can be more
types).

Assignee
Assign this JIRA to the most relevant stakeholder at this
workflow and issue stage.

Sprint
Provide the details of the sprint in which this issue is to be
tracked and completed.

There are still many fields which can be filled while creating a JIRA issue, but
that depends company to company and the process followed by each.

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There are other actions which can be performed on a JIRA issue, that could be
useful and save a lot of time.

Clone issues: perhaps if an old task needs to be


repeated; if an Issue needs to be created and
CLONE
separately tracked on multiple Projects; or
JIRA
multiple issues are to be created with few details
being constant.

An issue can be moved if:


1 Need to change the Project of the Issue.
MOVE
2. If the issue type is to be changed.
JIRA

If there are several discrete steps to completing


an Issue, it is better to break them into multiple
CREATE
smaller tasks called sub-tasks. This enables
Sub-task
better tracking and development of the issue
with clarity in ownershiip and progress.

There are various fieds available for time tracking:


a. Total time spent
TIME
b. Time Remaining or Time Spent
TRACKING
c. Story Point
d. Time to resolution, etc.

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JIRA allows to search for Issues and Projects as well as keywords that appear
in Issue descriptions and comments. There are mulltiple ways to search,
below is the list of most used and efficient ways:

Using Filter Using JQL Extrating Data


Jira Query Language from JIRA

Filters that can be used: To search using JQL, Export filtered


Only my issues many issue attributes are information as a CSV or
Recently updated to be used, like: an XML file. For this JIRA
Reported by Me ‘Project’,’Issue has an export button but
Created Recently Type’,’Priority’,’Epic this makes the data
tag’,’Due date’,’Status’ or static.
any others configured by
the organisation. Then
use JIRA operators with
the attributes like:
‘>’,’=’,’IS’,’NOT IN’, etc.

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A dashboard is the main display you see when logging in to Jira. It
allows creation of multiple dashboards from different projects, or
multiple dashboards for one massive overview of all the work being
done.
It allows to create a personal dashboard and add gadgets to keep
track of assignments and issues being worked upon. Dashboards are
designed to display gadgets that help in organizing projects,
assignments, and achievements in different charts.
Things you can do in JIRA Dashbaord:

Create a Share Copy Choose


Add Gadget
Dashboard Dashboard Dashboard Layout

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