Welcome to JIRA Tutorial. In this tutorial, we will learn what JIRA is, what is it used for, and how to use it.

What is JIRA software?

JIRA is a software tool designed for project management. The tool is mainly used for issue tracking.

Core Features of JIRA

Boards

JIRA provides Kanban and Scrum Boards. These boards are visual systems for managing work as it moves through a process.
They provide an immediate overview of the whole project at task level.
JIRA allows team members to customize these board workflows to fit their project.

Business Project Templates

Most of the times, there is always a template that fit your business project requirements. You can choose one from the huge collection of JIRA Business Project Templates. Or you can also modify an existing template to perfectly fit your business structure.

Issues

Every low level task in JIRA is considered an issue. A requirement is an issue. A bug is an issue. A task is an issue.
Each issue can be well detailed. You can provide a description; set a priority; attach required screenshots or documents; label the issue for quick access. You can assign the issue to one of your team members, make another as the reporter for the issue. One more important feature is that your team members can have a discussion on the issue in the form of comments.

Notifications

Emails can be sent to your team members for particular tasks. For example, an email notification will be sent to the ASSIGNEE of the issue. Also, if you can use @mention to notify that member specifically.

Power Search

JIRA provides a powerful search interface. You can search using filters, or advanced features. You can also search based on the details of issues.

Reports

With JIRA,  you can generate reports like:
Agile Reports: Burndown Report, Burnup Report, Sprint Report, Velocity Report, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Version Report, Epic Report, Control Chart, Epic Burndown, Release Burndown
Issue Analysis: Average Age Report, Created vs. Resolved Issues Report, Pie Chart Report, Recently Created Issues Report, Resolution Time Report, Single Level Group By Report, Time Since Issues Report
Forecast & management: Time Tracking Report, User Workload Report, Version Workload Report
Other: Workload Pie Chart Report

JIRA Next-gen Templates

JIRA provides next-gen templates that are familiar and easy to use. Each template consists of many features useful for project management.

Some of the templates are:

  • Kanban
  • Scrum

Agile Projects with JIRA

Most of the project teams are adopting Agile methodology for their projects. JIRA provides a lot of support in terms of templates, reports, etc. to handle Agile projects.

Get started with JIRA Project

You can get a trail period of 7 days and get used to the workflow of JIRA software before purchasing a license or registering for JIRA software.

Step 1

Open a browser and hit the url https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/try.

In this tutorial, we will choose Jira Software and click on Try it free.

Step 2 – Signup

Fill in the Signup form and click on Agree and Signup.