JumpStart to Jira for Administrators (TTDV7540)

Tracking issues is a critical component of your project management strategy. Jira provides a web based repository for creating, tracking, and reporting on feature requests, bugs reported, or managing your workflow. This hands-on course enables you to administer a Jira instance and learn by doing . The course focus is on exploring best practices and practical skills through hands-on activities.

You ll also receive a copy of Jira Essentials - Fourth Edition by Patrick Li.

Getting started with Jira Administration

• JIRA conceptual review
• Core concepts
• Terminology
• Infrastructure
• Jira roles

Groups vs Roles

• Overview
• Project roles
• Creating a role
• Project scaling
• Jira User management

Project Resolution

• Project status
• Resolved status
• Resolution date

Schemes

• Overview
• Project scope schemes
• Adding users to schemes
• Issue type schemes
• Notification schemes
• Permission schemes
• Issue security schemes
• working with schemes

Jira as a Platform

• Overview
• What can be configured
• Basic Jira project setup
• Advanced project setup
• Workflows
• Overview
• Designing a workflow
• Defining a workflow
• Implementing a workflow
• Deploying workflows
• Workflow events
• Transitions and sub-tasks
• Custom Fields
• Overview
• Field types
• Field context
• Limiting contexts
• Adding contexts
• Screens and field configuration
• Best practices for custom fields

User Lifecycle

• Overview
• Adding users
• Adding third-party users
• Modifying users
• Deactivating users

Remote Jira Access

• Overview
• Emails
• SQL
• REST
• Webhooks
• XML and RSS
• Command Line Interface
• Integrating Jira with other applications

Migrating Data into Jira

• Overview
• Migration steps
• The CSV importer
• Jira cloud migration

Summary and Best Practices

• Looking back at the Big Picture

You should have experience with the basic platform administration principles.

Administrators who are new to Jira.