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Set up a Jira Board

The Aims​

In this exercise, you will set up a Jira Board ready to manage the tasks for your project

Creating a new Jira Board​

Important - these actions should be undertaken by 1 person in each group

  1. Visit this link to create a new Jira account:

https://www.atlassian.com/try/cloud/signup?bundle=jira-software&edition=free&skipBundles=true

Enter a personal email address to sign up.

sign up

  1. Create a site for your team - use a team name on this screen. Your team name may not be available, so pick anythign that you like.

create a site

  1. On the What kind of work do you do? page, select Software development

what kind of work

  1. On the How do you plan to use Jira page, select any options that make sense to you.

how to use Jira

  1. On the Name your first project page, enter a name for your team's project

project name

  1. On the next two screens, accept the default options presented

defaults

defaults

Invite your team members​

  1. Once you have set up a Jira board, click on the teams link on the left menu, then click on the add people button.

  2. Enter the personal email addresses of the other members of the team, to invite them to join your board.

add people

Start using Jira​

Once the team members are all connected to a Jira board:

  1. Try creating a blacklog of tasks in the project board. Think about what you will need to do!

  2. Assign tasks to team members and set deadlines

You will use this board as you work through your project. The requiremetns will become clearer soon, so today you can create dummy tasks which can be marked complete when you know what the real tasks will be.