I've been using Jira for maybe 5 minutes now - just trying to get a feel for the product, how it works, and visualize how we can use it for our organization. Ours is a research-based nonprofit engaged in public health and safety research projects. If anyone has recommendations for someone just starting this journey, please pass them along. Thanks!
Hi @Lisa Perry,
Welcome to the Community!
I would highly recommend checking out the free Jira Fundamentals course on the Atlassian University.
https://university.atlassian.com/student/path/815443-jira-fundamentals
This course is designed for people who are just starting out with Jira.
-Jimmy
Hi Lisa, and welcome. Usually I try to respond to these messages and end up rambling on and on, and just abandon the response instead of posting. This time I'll keep it quick with 2 points:
On that second one I started to ramble again, so I'm cutting it off here!
Hi @Lisa Perry
Everything already mentioned I also recommend. Especially all the free courses on Atlassian University.
In terms of managing Jira:
I have probably 2000 more things but this is a good start. Feel free to reach out any time!
Welcome to the group and the community, @Lisa Perry !
I see that @Jimmy Seddon and @Josh Costella have already directed you to the right path for a new Jira admin/user.
I would suggest you to go through that "Jira Fundamentals" course and always feel free to ask any questions in the relevant community collections/groups so that our community members can pick them up and respond with their suggestions/solutions.
Hope you have a great Jira learning experience!
Thanks everyone for the quick and helpful advice! I'll get right to that Jira Fundamentals course before trying to tackle anything else.
Getting to know Jira Software - YouTube and the Atlassian youtube channel in general is a great resource to get you started.
Hi,
Completely agree with all of the above answers. I haven't been using Jira long but the courses are really useful. The real eye opener for me when it came to organising projects were these articles and their comments
Best Practices: Strategies for Defining your JIRA ... - Atlassian Community
Project structure in Jira Software | Atlassian Support | Atlassian Documentation
Also, do some investigation into how project boards work. They don't need to be assigned to just one project, they can have many. This makes them really powerful and dynamic
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