New to Jira and want to understand how this helps me

[A Sarkar]

I am a working project manager, mainly using MS Project. However my client started using Jira and I want to understand the foundation concepts and workflows.How can I use in my work.

Can someone help me with some walk through study guide?

Is Jira for Agile or can be used in waterfalls?

Thanks in advance...

[Carlos Garcia Navarro · Accepted solution]

Hi @A Sarkar ,

Welcome to the Community! Jira is a very versatile tool that can be used for any methodology, Agile or Waterfall. Some of the basic trainings and documentation can help understand how to use it to adapt to your processes. Jira helps plan and track tasks, and manage workflows. It can also integrate easily with other tools, like e.g. Confluence for documentation, Github or Bitbucket for version control, etc. And with Jira Service Management you can create interfaces and workflows for incident management. 

https://university.atlassian.com/student/path/815443-jira-fundamentals?sid=c35e8207-397b-4a66-a39b-9523bf36f8ef&sid_i=6

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/agile#:~:text=Jira%20Software%20is%20an%20agile,projects%20from%20a%20single%20tool.

[Sanjog Sigdel · Accepted solution]

Hello @A Sarkar 

Welcome to the community.

Jira can help you in managing your teams which may work in either Agile or waterfall. Jira is a Project Management and progress tracking tool. So you can define your custom statuses and workflows to get started with.

Please go through this collection of videos from JIra and find out more from atlassain team:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRJ_8frS_cE&list=PLaD4FvsFdarSMw1gauTdC3q1PUsv3AZg6

Once you have an idea about the elements of Jira you can definitely ask question on your issues and curiosity here at the online community.

[A Sarkar]

Thanks 👍

[Sanjog Sigdel]

You are welcome 🙂

[A Sarkar]

Thanks a lot....

[Carlos Garcia Navarro]

You're welcome! :-)