Jira
Planning, tracking, and managing work across software and product teams
Jira is a project and issue tracking platform developed by Atlassian, widely used by software engineering, product, and QA teams to plan and monitor delivery work. Teams create issues — representing bugs, features, tasks, or requirements — and move them through configurable workflows that reflect how the team delivers. Jira supports both Scrum and Kanban working styles, with sprint boards, backlogs, and reporting built in. It integrates with most development tools including Git platforms, CI/CD systems, and documentation tools, making it the central record of what is being built, by whom, and in what state. Jira is the default issue tracker across a large proportion of professional software teams.
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Atlassian Certified Professional: Jira Administration for CloudJira Use Cases
- Planning and prioritising software development work by breaking product initiatives into epics, stories, and individual tasks
- Tracking the progress of individual issues through a configurable workflow from backlog through to production completion
- Running Agile sprints with sprint planning boards, daily standup tracking, and burndown reporting built into the workflow
- Linking code commits and pull requests to Jira issues to maintain traceability between work items and delivered code
- Generating velocity, cycle time, and cumulative flow reports that help teams understand delivery pace and identify bottlenecks
Jira Learning Resources
Atlassian University at university.atlassian.com offers free self-paced courses covering Jira fundamentals and board configuration. The official Jira documentation at support.atlassian.com provides detailed reference for every feature and workflow.