Jira is a workflow management platform. Through Jira, you can define your own business processes, and let the platform to control the workflow, and so you can focus on your work not the flow.
There are three roles for Jira. The first is Administrator, the second is project administrator, and the Third is user.
I. Guide for Administrator:
1. As a Administrator, you should perform following tasks:
To set up an instance of Jira Core
To add new users
To create projects and cutomize them.
To manage permissions
Setting up an instance and add new users are just what them sound like. There is not much worth to take abount them. So, we just focus on the project and permissions.
2. To create a project
A project is a container that holds issues. Issues can ba viewed as the packets of work required within a project. To create issues, you need to have an avaible project to contain them.
3. To manage permissions
To master management of permissions, you should understand following concepts:
roles, groups, and users: A role is a project specific set of groups and/or individual users. we can give/ or design a role with the permission to assign work(issues).
global and project permissions: global permissions only cover a small set of functions, such as system administration of Jira core, browsing users, bulking changes, and so on, that affect all projects.
project permissions cover set of granular cuntions that affect a single project. for example, create issues.
II. Project administrator
1. customize your project
As a project administrator, you hava ability to edit project role membership, project versions and certain project details(project name, project description, project lead and URL.)
2. To add users to your project
III. Users
1. To access your projects
2. To work with issues
An issues is the most basic entity in Jira core. Depending on your team and business, issues can be different things. Every issue has a lifecycle. The lifecycle of an issue is managed by a workflow. A workflow consists of the issue statues and the transitions between each statues.
3. To search for issues