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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Atlassian JIRA is an enterprise issue tracker system. One of its key strengths is its ability to adapt to the needs of the organization from the frontend user interface to providing a platform for add-ons to extend its capabilities. However, understanding its flexibility and picking the right add-ons can often be a daunting task for many administrators. Learning how to take advantage of JIRA's power while keeping the overall design simple and clean is important to the success of the implementation and future growth.You can make full of use recipes with real-life JIRA administration challenges, solutions, and examples. Each recipe contains easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and illustrations from the actual application.What this book coversChapter 1, JIRA Server Administration, contains recipes that help you administer your JIRA server, including upgrading and securing JIRA with the SSL certificate.Chapter 2 , Customizing JIRA for Your Projects, contains recipes that let you customize JIRA with custom fields and screens. This chapter also includes advance techniques such as using scripts and add-ons to add more control to fields that are not available out of box with JIRA.Chapter 3 , JIRA Workflows, covers one the most powerful features in JIRA with recipes that show you how to work with workflows, including permissions and user input validation. This chapter also covers workflow bundling and using scripts to extend out-of- the-box components
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Sachin Srivastava
Sachin Srivastava is a software engineer in India. Having also worked in the petro-chemicals, height safety, banking, textiles, heavy engineering, telecom, and enterprise software industries. Sachin's development experience includes Oracle, Microsoft Technologies, Atlassian Products, Python, .NET, SharePoint, Swift, Objective-C and other languages, markup, and platforms.
Being an expert with Atlassian products, he started working with JIRA right out of college and has been involved in the Atlassian ecosystem for over ten years. Sachin has developed products and solutions on top of the Atlassian platform, which includes JIRA, Confluence, and more. He also provides expert consulting services, helping, advising, and guiding companies with best practices on using JIRA. Sachin is one of the top contributors to the Atlassian community, providing answers and advice on forums such as Atlassian Answers and Quora.
He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing the existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
I would like to thank all the reviewers for their valuable feedback and also the publishers and coordinators for their help and support in making this happen. Lastly, I would also like to thank my family, especially my wife, Katherine, for encouraging me along the way.
