With the rapid growth in the IT industry, many software, tools have been designed for software development lifecycle management. Jira Software, an Atlassian product, is used for project management, Requirement and Test management, Agile Product development, DevOps, task management, and defect tracking.

Initially, this tool was developed to track bugs and issues but later on, it was developed into project management tools.

It is available in three different product suites: Jira Core has been designed for project management teams for the smooth running of the project. Jira Software includes Jira Core and Agile functions. The third one, the Jira service desk is for those IT professionals who are involved in service desk jobs.

These are the Jira software use cases-

• As teams are developing frequently, Jira software is the center for any coding, collaboration and release management. With a variety of add-ons, the QA team uses Jira issues, customized screens, fields and workflows to manage manual and automated tests.
• Teams, practicing agile methodologies, this software provides ‘Scrum’ and ‘Kandan’ boards which provides over-all data of the status of every work item and team’s real-time performance report.
• The project management teams can use a project template or create their custom workflow. With all project information in place, Jira issue pass through each workflow and generate reports.
• For software development teams, it helps in planning and road-mapping stake holders’ budgets and feature requirement from the very first day.  When it is ready to deploy, live production code status information is surfaced in Jira issue and integrated feature flagging tools CI/CD enable team to roll out new features gradually and safely.   
• Teams who are DevOps, Jira integrates with first-and-third party tools throughout the DevOps lifecycle, including version control tools as- Bitbucket, GitHub and Gitlab. DevOps teams can have better focus on automation, testing, security, feature-flagging and continuous delivery and deployment.
• Under task management, teams can create task on Jira for themselves to work on, complete it with details, due dates and reminders. Under parent task, sub-tasks can be created to split units of work for various members of the team.
• The product management teams can create roadmap for long term view of their work, highlighting dependencies and forecast for the completion date of their work.
• For bug tracking, Jira’s powerful workflow engine is used by the teams to capture bugs in the back logs so they can prioritize big picture goals.         

 

Jira Issue

Jira issue can be created once the project has been imported.  Jira Issue types are classified under different forms, as sub-task, bug, Epic, Improvement, Story, etc. In the Jira project management tool, there are two Issue types schemes-

• Default Issue Type Scheme: The newly created issues will be included in this automatically.
• Agile Scrum Issue Type Scheme: This scheme will be used by Issues and project associated to Agile Scrum.

Jira tool is very compatible in nature which makes it popular among IT professionals. The most significant thing about this tool is, it does not require any certification which makes it easier to be adopted by IT companies.