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Jira is a project management tool that organizes work into issues, which are individual items like tasks or bugs, and projects, which are collections of these issues. Each issue has a unique key for identification, and projects can have various issue types such as epics, stories, and tasks. Additionally, Jira features boards for status-based views, dashboards for statistical overviews, and JQL for querying issues.

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Jira is a project management tool that organizes work into issues, which are individual items like tasks or bugs, and projects, which are collections of these issues. Each issue has a unique key for identification, and projects can have various issue types such as epics, stories, and tasks. Additionally, Jira features boards for status-based views, dashboards for statistical overviews, and JQL for querying issues.

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Jira definition

Issue
• An individual item in Jira
• Each time you create item, you’re creating a new issue with the unique key
to identify it.
• An issue can be any individual record in the database (like a request, a
problem, a task, a to-do item)
• A development team item (like a story, bug or epic)

Project
• A collection of Jira issues
• Think of Jira project as a container for all your team’s, tasks and to-do items.

Issue type
• Is a classification of issues in a Jira project.
• Epic
• Story
• Bug
• Investigation
• Task

Each Jira project has it’s own set of issues type based on the type of work
done.

Project

Each project Has a long name and a short name for example
(project/Development/DEV-1
You can use these names interchangeably. When searching for Jira issue.

Issue Key
• Each issue in a Jira project has a unique identifier or key.
• It’s made up of the project short name and a unique number.
• For example, the key is DEV-1
Tip!! Any time you’re discussing an issue in chat, email, or in a meeting, always
provide the issue key. This will eliminate confusion between similar issues.

Board
• Is a status-based view of issues for one or more projects.
• Is an easy way to see the status of many issues at the same time.
• Drag to the next block when you are done for example (start to progress)

Dashboard
• A statistics-based view of issues from one or more project
• You can create your own custom dashboard.
• The dashboard shows counts, trends and charts.

Query
• Is a question that you can ask Jira (example: how many bugs did the
developer report this week)

JQL (Jira Query Language)


• Is a language you used to ask
• It’s the way to search through thousands of issues. To find the few that you
are looking for.

Filter
• A saved query.

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