Terms Default screen – Upon successful login, you are presented with your default dashboard. Navigation bar – The navigation bar at the top of the screen is the same every screen. It contains links to quickly access JIRA’s most useful functions. Dashboard – By default, when you log in, JIRA takes you to the system […]
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Example Software Development Workflow
Here is a quick case study of a workflow used at Oasis Digital (sister company of Expium) on complex software projects. We incorporate various important concepts including: Code Review Testing DOD (Definition of Done) Customer Shipment Production Validation
Cup O’ Links
Hope everyone is having a great week! Below you’ll find a JIRA “Cup O’ Links,” a few helpful links to articles that answer some common questions and problems users face with JIRA. JIRA Administrators FAQ Scheme Workflow Connect JIRA with Salesforce.com
How to Add Labels to Issues
On occasion OD may require Issues to be sorted by labels of various types, whether for customer billing or internal processes. In JIRA, select the appropriate Project. From the menu on the left, select Issues. If needed you can filter the Issues to get a subset, or select All Issues. This will take you to […]
Issue Basics
Each issue has a variety of associated information including: the issue type a summary a description of the issue the project which the issue belongs to components within a project which are associated with this issue versions of the project which are affected by this issue versions of the project which will resolve the issue […]
How to Create Issues
Once the above specifics have been determined, the Admin or Dev can enter the information into JIRA. From the top menu bar, select Issues–>Create Issue. From the Project pull-down menu, select the correct Project for this Issue, then do the same for the Issue Type. For Summary, type the Title of the Issue as provided […]
Dividing work into the right set of JIRA issues
Here is a very brief case study of how complex work is divided into the right set of Jira issues at Oasis Digital, Expium’s sister company. Typically an experienced developer or manager will choose and approach to this challenge for a particular project; the approach year has worked reasonably well for our teams.. Important to […]
How to Create a New Customer Project
A new project must be created in JIRA when we gain a new customer or begin a new initiative or feature with an existing customer. The project can be created by a manager, the project leader, or an administrative person. (If this task is assigned to an administrator, a manager or the project lead should […]
Filters
JIRA is based around the central concept of an issue. When you start collecting a large number of issues in a project you need a way to find what you are looking for and identify a subset of issues. Powerful issue search functionality is included in JIRA using both the GUI and the JIRA Query […]