List the advantages of JIRA

Jira is highly configurable and flexible to allow for usage across a wide
range of environments and its processes. The Jira workflows, issue types
can easily be changed from the administration GUI.

The following are the advantages of Jira software

1. We can create issues in Jira from Confluence, display Jira

reports/dashboards in Confluence, and navigate easily between linked Jira
issues and Confluence pages for traceability, Create Knowledge Base
articles in Confluence from Jira Service Desk, find contextual Knowledge
Base articles in Jira Service tickets.

2. We can Create Bitbucket branches from within Jira, see all related
commits, branches and pull requests in an issue, transition issues
automatically based on development events, transition issues from within
Bitbucket Server, see issues related to Bitbucket Server commits and pull
requests, check commits, branches and pull requests for an entire version
within Jira Software.

3. Get notifications in your Hip chat rooms when issues are updated,
preview issues, and service desk requests directly in Hip chat when
someone on your team mentions them.

4. The cost of per user Jira license is typically half the cost of other
competitive enterprise applications in this space.

5. Users tend to favor Jira over other competitive tools due to its simple and
intuitive interface. Additionally, the presence of a wide range of open-
source product documentation and community support forums makes it
easy for the users and administrators to learn and adapt the tool far more
readily.

6. Jira can be used to centralize the collaboration and tracking needs of

small to large size enterprises, from business to software to services
teams, and from basic to large complex solutions.
7. The Jira tool is a highly streamlined environment to build an enterprise-
level platform. Integrating with identity management software, finance
applications, HR systems, and CRM systems are some of the ways
organizations are using Jira to build a highly connected enterprise solution.

8. Jira has a lightweight footprint and is deployed as a web application on

Linux or Windows.

Functionalities of JIRA

1. We can create dashboards in order to customize it and this workflow will

be with the creation of projects and workflows
2. This is the roadmap or route of this Jira project where everything is
interrelated within the workflow
3. The product owner and or the team leader will be able to keep track of
log history and backlog where sprints take place. The following picture
depicts the functionality of backlog

4. Each backlog has sprint 1,2,3 and more as to keep every task of the
backlog in records and assigned persons in timeline project with to do, in
progress and done lists.
5. We can manage task and edit task to do subtasks and each one is
figured out very thoroughly by checking the assigners and assignee
6. We can see the team leaders, product owners, and other developers in
the project and notify them of anything related to the project sprint.

7.

This is the board page of Jira where you can see your current sprint and
who are working on this project. This section is divided into three sections

 To Do
 In Progress
 Done

All the issues of the first sprint are available in the to-do list part then
developers can drag one by one issue to the in-progress section and
once they finish it would show up in the done section.

8.
Here there are three sections shown as mentioned in the earlier point.
Project Lead can comment and can attach some sort of description to the
issue. All three sections have their tag which clearly is visible when you
open the issue.
9.

This is the project section; here you can see all the current projects of your
team. You can also see the team Lead.

Project Management Areas we can optimize by using Jira:

 The major benefit of using Jira in project management is it speeds up
the development process and the communication process. The
product owner can interact the project team quickly, he doesn’t have
to wait till the weekly meetings and can review the work of the project
team what work is already done and what they are working on and he
can also give feedback right away after checking the completed tasks
and issues.

 The other benefit is the interaction and development process are

optimized among the development team. All the members in the team
can check anytime what other developers are working on. Team
members can discuss and interact faster with the team lead or the
 scrum master. Even they can interact with product owner if
necessary.

 The biggest benefit is your work is stored in a specific system. You

can access a project in a matter of seconds and start understanding
what the team was working on, how many people were working and
how much time they took and when did they finish. Even if you want
details of a specific person, you can look up what he worked on. So
Jira in that way organizes the work and makes it easy for both client
and the development team.