Installing JIRA on a laptop?

Rich Milligan

We have a requirement to work out of the office, un-connected to the corporate network and my boss has the bright idea that we can install JIRA onto a laptop to view our backlog. The first time we did this we simply exported each of our JIRA projects into a csv and viewed them in Excel but now he's asked me to explore the possibility to have the full blown JIRA client on the laptop. As JIRA on the corporate network is supported by a different team I'm struggling to get answers and have no ideas as to what the minimum requirements for a JIRA installation are. If installing full blown JIRA isn't possible, is there a JIRA viewer or similar that can take an exported csv and view the items in a better way than in Excel. Many thanks for reading.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

The hardware requirements are not massive for a small Jira - I regularly run it on this thing (for development/testing, so one user, and not a lot of data).  8Gb quad core, but I use the internal database (not recommended if you can't survive a catastrophic failure), and allow 1.5Gb memory for it.    Obviously, you'll only be able to use it while that laptop is active!

But, Jira really isn't built for this, it's intended to be shared properly.  You're not going to have much fun trying to keep the laptop in sync with your main one.

You might want a look in the marketplace - there are a couple of things offering offline Jira updates (i.e. work when disconnected, then sync when you connect)