From the course: Learning Jira Software

Who is this course for? - Jira Tutorial

From the course: Learning Jira Software

Who is this course for?

- [Instructor] This course helps users get started with Jira software, use features built specifically for development tasks, and track work so you can develop, test, and release software for your organization. You may be brand new to Jira software, have some previous experience, or have used Jira at a previous company. Additionally, you may be a new Jira administrator or project administrator without much end-user experience. For you, we'll cover a few admin topics that are specifically related to Jira software features. It doesn't matter if you're a software developer, tester, project manager, Scrum master, product owner, or release manager. Anyone involved in the software development lifecycle can benefit from tracking their in Jira software. If you're new to Jira, take my learning Jira course first. There's a version for cloud users and another version for server and data center users. This course builds on that course and assumes you already know the basic Jira functions. This course only covers the features that are additionally provided by Jira software for development work. Also, if you're involved in any step of the software development life cycle, I invite you to also take my planning and releasing software with Jira course. It shows how to combine the power of Jira with Confluence, Bitbucket, and Sourcetree, so teams can reduce manual work and holistically support the entire development process. It's for coders and anyone who wants to know more about what goes on behind the scenes in the world of software development. It's good to know that there are three types of Jira. Jira Work Management is built for business teams, managing projects, processes, and tasks. It was previously named Jira Core. Jira Software is for development teams and includes feature like sprints, story points, backlogs, and integration with dev tools, like Bamboo and Bitbucket. Jira Service Management is for support and IT service teams. It was previously named Jira Service Desk. All three types of Jira have the same look and feel, but different features. The applications can be used separately or together. The application type we'll use in this course is Jira Software. Additionally, Jira software is available in three different deployment types. If you have Cloud, it means the software is hosted by Atlassian. That means Atlassian is responsible for application uptime, the database and the mail server. If you have Server, it means the software is hosted independently. Now your application may be hosted on premises, on a server in your office, in your data center with other internal applications, in a cloud environment like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, or by a third party. Finally, if you have data center, it means you have multiple application nodes or instances for high availability, load balancing, redundancy, and disaster recovery. Not sure if you have Jira Cloud, Server, or Data Center? No worries. Read my "Which type of Jira do I have?" article, ask your Jira administrator, or ask the person who pays the bills at your organization. In this course, I'll mainly show examples from the Cloud deployment type, like this Jira Cloud screenshot, but don't worry, in most cases, the concepts are the same, regardless of deployment type. Just be aware that there are slight feature, terminology, and user interface differences between the types. Also it's all right if your application looks different than my examples. You might have different colors, a different layout, and customization specific to your company.

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