Setting Up a Real-World Project in JIRA

A practical guide to working with JIRA

Created byDan LeFebvre

Last updated 4/2019

English

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What you'll learn

See how JIRA's features can be used together in a real-world scenario
Create your own JIRA project from start to finish

Course content

2 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 15m total length

Introduction and project overview2:40
Explore a real-world Jira project setup for a podcast, building a scrum board with custom statuses, sprints, and daily workflow to organize episodes and prepare reports.

Creating our JIRA project4:46
Create a Jira project using the scrum software development preset to auto-configure a scrum board, customize episode-related issue types and workflows, and set the project avatar to a podcast logo.
Adding custom statuses to our Agile board5:45
Customize your agile board in Jira by adding statuses such as ready to record and ready to edit, then map them to columns to reflect a podcast workflow.
Creating a custom issue type4:05
Create a custom episode issue type in Jira, attach it to the project’s issue type scheme, and streamline workflow by replacing defaults with episode-focused types.
Creating and adding an issue type avatar8:32
Create and upload a custom issue type avatar in Jira by designing a microphone icon, applying a rounded background, and assigning the image to the issue type for project personalization.
Clearing out the extra schemes JIRA creates4:03
Customize Jira screens for issue types by cleaning up unused screens and screen schemes. Delete the bug screen and streamline the back end to align with the scrum preset.
Customizing our issue type screens3:18
Hide unused fields and rearrange essential fields—due date, time tracking, priority, and labels—to streamline the Jira issue type screen, with the option to bring back hidden fields when needed.
Customizing our project workflow9:14
Create a test issue and sprint to walk through the Jira workflow, then configure a resolve issue screen with custom resolutions to track done work via search.
Fixing a common workflow issue5:27
Learn to fix a Jira workflow issue by clearing the resolution on status transitions. Configure post functions to set the resolution to none for ready to record and in progress.
Configuring time tracking6:59
Configure time tracking in Jira by switching to original time estimates, setting working days and hours, and tracking progress with work logs and a timer.
Adding our issues and starting the sprint10:17
Clean up and migrate tasks from a personal to-do list into Jira, create and estimate issues, convert episodes to stories, and start the March 2017 sprint to enable project reporting.
Understanding the day-to-day workflow6:52
Demonstrate a day-to-day workflow in Jira, log time and track progress across sprints, move completed work to done, and organize unfinished items back into the backlog for the next sprint.
Optional: Making sure our team can use our board3:05
Learn how to share a Jira board by updating its filter so that any user with project permissions can see it, test access, and customize sharing for your team.

Requirements

You'll need administration access to JIRA
You'll need to have a general understanding of how JIRA works
Optionally, a basic understanding of Photoshop for creating the JIRA issue type avatar

Description

In this course, we'll learn a very practical approach to setting up a project in JIRA. As the title of the course implies, this isn't an example project, but rather it's a real-world project that will be used on a daily basis. We'll start by getting the back story for the project so we'll know what the needs are. Then we'll start building the project, customizing JIRA to fulfill our needs. Along the way we'll learn about projects, issues, issue types, screens, schemes, workflows, time tracking and much more.

Who this course is for:

A JIRA administrator who needs a practical approach to setting up a project

Setting Up a Real-World Project in JIRA

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Course content

Introduction and project overview1 lecture • 3min