JIRA Administration Step by Step  (English, Paperback, Sachin Srivastava)

Atlassian JIRA is an enterprise issue tracker system. One of its key strengths is its ability to adapt to the needs of the organization from the frontend user interface to providing a platform for add-ons to extend its capabilities. However, understanding its flexibility and picking the right add-ons can often be a daunting task for many administrators. Learning how to take advantage of JIRA's power while keeping the overall design simple and clean is important to the success of the implementation and future growth.You can make full of use recipes with real-life JIRA administration challenges, solutions, and examples. Each recipe contains easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and illustrations from the actual application.What this book coversChapter 1, JIRA Server Administration, contains recipes that help you administer your JIRA server, including upgrading and securing JIRA with the SSL certificate.Chapter 2 , Customizing JIRA for Your Projects, contains recipes that let you customize JIRA with custom fields and screens. This chapter also includes advance techniques such as using scripts and add-ons to add more control to fields that are not available out of box with JIRA.Chapter 3 , JIRA Workflows, covers one the most powerful features in JIRA with recipes that show you how to work with workflows, including permissions and user input validation. This chapter also covers workflow bundling and using scripts to extend out-of- the-box components and much much more....