To get the most out of this book

There aren't a lot of prerequisites for this book; just a couple of things that I thought would be helpful. First, you should have a basic knowledge of Scrum. We'll reference Scrum a fair amount as we're running an Agile project in JIRA, and I'll give you some helpful specifics. Second, it is nice to have at least one team of people that are looking to work together, because that's what JIRA is really great for: having a team of people work together instead of just one person working on something. Although you can use JIRA alone, having a team that you can apply these concepts to once you've learned them will be really powerful.

You will need to be familiar with the basics of JIRA, from both the end-user and administrator perspectives. Experience with workflows, custom fields, and other administrative JIRA functions will be useful.

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/HandsOnAgileSoftwareDevelopmentwithJIRA_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Let's create another Sprint. We'll call this one FP1 Sprint 1 and include This is my first Sprint as the Sprint goal."

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "If we go back to our Backlog in the upper right corner, we can see that we have our Board settings, so we'll click that, and then, under our SETTINGS, we've got Estimation."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.