Practical JIRA Administration

Matthew B. Doar

ISBN 10: 1449305415 / ISBN 13: 9781449305413

Published by O Reilly Media, 2011

About this Item

If you're familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar answers difficult and frequently-asked questions about JIRA administration, and shows you how JIRA is intended to be used. Num Pages: 94 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: UMW. Category: (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 234 x 181 x 6. Weight in Grams: 178. . 2011. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practical JIRA Administration
• Publisher: O Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449305415
• ISBN 13: 9781449305413
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

If you're familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar clarifies some of the more confusing aspects by answering difficult and frequently asked questions about JIRA administration.

Practical JIRA Administration shows you how JIRA is intended to be used, making it an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available. The book’s chapters are loosely connected, so you can go straight to the information that best serves your needs.

• Understand the difference between JIRA groups and JIRA project roles
• Discover what JIRA schemes do, and learn how to maintain them
• Use a consistent configuration approach to help you use JIRA as a platform
• Create a workflow from scratch
• Add, modify, and deactivate users
• Prepare for a JIRA upgrade, and troubleshoot if necessary
• Get remote access to JIRA via email, SQL, REST, and other methods

About the Author

Matt Doar runs Consulting Toolsmiths, a software consultancy in Silicon Valley and has extensive experience configuring and customizing JIRA for clients all over the world. He is an Atlassian partner and is part of the wider Atlassian development community.

He also wrote "Practical Development Environments", O'Reilly (2005) which described the basics of software tools - version control, build tools, testing, issue trackers, automation.

Matt also runs the blog http://jiradev.blogspot.com which has a number of similar tips, trick and examples for practical JIRA development.