Setting Up a Real-World Project in JIRA

A practical guide to working with JIRA

Created byDan LeFebvre

Last updated 4/2019

English

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

Creating our JIRA project4:46
Adding custom statuses to our Agile board5:45
Creating a custom issue type4:05
Creating and adding an issue type avatar8:32
Clearing out the extra schemes JIRA creates4:03
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
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
Optional: Making sure our team can use our board3:05

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

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Course content

Introduction and project overview1 lecture • 3min