Capable Project Administrators are essential to the optimal functioning of Jira in large organizations. Certified Jira Project Administrators are the power users who know how to configure projects and boards, customize workflows and manage project permissions in their organization's Jira Server or Data Center instance. They live in Jira day-to-day, and can help scale their instance to meet the demand of their business, so their Jira Administrator and teams can get more work done. Six months' exposure to Jira Software for Data Center or Server is recommended before taking the training course

Transform your application from a foggy, contaminated, and overgrown swamp to an organized, tidy, and trimmed garden.Key Features* Establish and streamline vital processes with more than a hundred recommendations* Apply best practices and guidelines for each administrative area* Use real-world examples to learn how to avoid common pitfallsBook DescriptionThe application development process can easily get out of hand if you do not track and control it at all times. You need a robust project management tool that tracks the issues and bugs in your project and ensures its smooth completion.The JIRA Strategy Admin Workbook begins by discussing how to set up a new application and audit and improve its functionality. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn how to upgrade and maintain an application once it is properly set up. You'll learn to create workflows that can track how your application functions, and improve it by analyzing the behavior of the workflow. You'll also learn how to use addons, plugins, and other tools that extend your application.By the end of the book, you'll gain insight into your application and discover alternative strategies to perform your administrative tasks better.What you will learn* Master all the processes for a well-planned implementation* Discover simple ways to streamline administration* Explore how to audit and clean up the application* Discover ways to maintain and extend JIRA* Learn how to create repeatable procedures* Discover ways to stay out of the 'JIRA swamp'Who This Book Is ForThis book is ideal for administrators, project managers, analysts, and organizations that want to get started with JIRA. If you have been using JIRA for a while, this book will show you simple ways to streamline your application and make daily work more manageable. To get the most out of this book, you should have an end user's understanding of JIRA functions.

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

Learn how to automate tasks and create rules in Jira with the help of different use cases Key FeaturesAutomate daily repetitive and tedious tasks without coding experienceDiscover how to automate processes in the Jira family including Jira software, Jira Service Desk, and Jira CoreExplore different use cases to understand automation features in JiraBook Description Atlassian Jira makes it easier to track the progress of your projects, but it can lead to repetitive and time-consuming tasks for teams. No-code automation will enable you to increase productivity by automating these tasks. Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. You will start by learning how automation in Jira works, along with discovering best practices for writing automation rules. Then you'll be introduced to the building blocks of automation, including triggers, conditions, and actions, before moving on to advanced rule-related techniques. After you've become familiar with the techniques, you'll find out how to integrate with external tools, such as GitHub, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, all without writing a single line of code. Toward the end, you'll also be able to employ advanced rules to create custom notifications and integrate with external systems. By the end of this Jira book, you'll have gained a thorough understanding of automation rules and learned how to use them to automate everyday tasks in Jira without using any code. What you will learnUnderstand the basic concepts of automation such as triggers, conditions, and actionsFind out how to use if–then scenarios and conditions to automate your processes with practical examplesUse smart values to achieve complex and more powerful automationImplement use cases in a practical way, including automation with Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, and BitbucketDiscover best practices for writing and maintaining automation rulesExplore techniques for debugging rules and solving common issuesWho this book is for This book is for Jira administrators and project managers who want to learn about automation capabilities provided in Jira. Familiarity with Jira and working knowledge of workflows and project configurations is required.

Plan, track, and solve problems with JIRALearn how to:- establish a reliable workflow for solving problems with JIRA- create meaningful reports of problems out of JIRA- implement the right measures to pass auditsBook Description:As complexity of the projects increases, teams are distributed to different locations or countries, people are working more and more from home, the necessity of the reliable and transparent processes becomes more important. This book proposes an workflow easy to follow configurable with JIRA, with certain explained phases and responsibilities at each step. There are couple of reports to show the actual progress of the problem solving or a future projection. This supports the project management to estimate the right resource need. Prioritization and planning of the problems is also an important aspect in special for larger and complex projects or multiple teams or disciplines. This aspect is touched also on the book including a concrete example. This book supports with advices or practical ideas to achieve ASPICE Level 3 Audit, including checklists or supporting templates.Table of content:-Introduction-What is this book about?-What is this book not about?-How to identify appropriate resources, roles-How to establish and roll out a process for solving problems-How to analyze problems using JIRA-How to implement bug fixes, corrections using JIRA-How to identify and to classify the triggers for problems on projects-How to split the work in the team and log the effort in JIRA-How to report the overall problem-solving progress-How to enable the problem-solving for highest severity tickets-How to prioritize problems-How to ensure traceability with configuration management tools-How to achieve Level 3 on Automotive SPICE audit for problem resolution management process area (SUP.9.)-Appendix 1 - Problem Solving Methods - 5 Whys - Fishbone - The 8D Process-Appendix 2 - Problem Resolution Management Template (Checklist)-Appendix 3 - Job Description - Problem Manager

The success of product line engineering techniques in the last 15 years has popularized the use of software variability as a key modeling approach for describing the commonality and variability of systems at all stages of the software lifecycle. Software product lines enable a family of products to share a common core platform, while allowing for product specific functionality being built on top of the platform. Many companies have exploited the concept of software product lines to increase the resources that focus on highly differentiating functionality and thus improve their competitiveness with higher quality and reusable products and decreasing the time-to-market condition. Many books on product line engineering either introduce specific product line techniques or include brief summaries of industrial cases. From these sources, it is difficult to gain a comprehensive understanding of the various dimensions and aspects of software variability. Here the editors address this gap by providing a comprehensive reference on the notion of variability modeling in the context of software product line engineering, presenting an overview of the techniques proposed for variability modeling and giving a detailed perspective on software variability management. Their book is organized in four main parts, which guide the reader through the various aspects and dimensions of software variability. Part 1 which is mostly written by the editors themselves introduces the major topics related to software variability modeling, thus providing a multi-faceted view of both technological and management issues. Next, part 2 of the book comprises four separate chapters dedicated to research and commercial tools. Part 3 then continues with the most practical viewpoint of the book presenting three different industry cases on how variability is managed in real industry projects. Finally, part 4 concludes the book and encompasses six different chapters on emerging research topics in software variability like e.g. service-oriented or dynamic software product lines, or variability and aspect orientation. Each chapter briefly summarizes “What you will learn in this chapter”, so both expert and novice readers can easily locate the topics dealt with. Overall, the book captures the current state of the art and best practices, and indicates important open research challenges as well as possible pitfalls. Thus it serves as a reference for researchers and practitioners in software variability management, allowing them to develop the next set of solutions, techniques and methods in this complicated and yet fascinating field of software engineering.