Jira Udemy Course Flashcards
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What is a system dashboard?
A
Why is hovering over a feature important?
Shows keyboard shortcuts.
What does the hamburger do?
The “hamburger” icon near the upper left hand corner expands your left side menu.
What does manage issues do,?
Create and save filters?
Describe the Issue Navigator
General
Project Specific
What is Lab View?
Kira experiments on you.
Settings profile Labs on or off.
What is label field?
A way to group or categorize issues.
In the label field you could enter a certain phrase and later filter on that phrase for results.
How to minimize menus on left?
Resize blue left window.
Kira has 3 possible boards. What are the three?
Scrum, Kanban, Agile.
But you can only build an Agile board if you are an Admin.
What do backlog, story and version have in common?
Future stories in backlog may be associated with a future software release.
Explain how Epics and Versions interrelate?
Epics are large stories. Renovating a bathroom would be an Epic. Tearing out all the old floors and walls would be one or two Stories for that Epic.
A Version would be a software version. The first Version of software might be 1.0. A slight update might be 1.3 . A significantly new upgrade or Version might be 2.0 .
Whst are the 4 issues?
Story
Epic
Task
Bug
How do you filter on any field?
Research.
Can attachments be added to the description field?
Yes.
Never used it.
This might be useful at the start of an issue.
Useful for BA, developer, etc.
To start a filter seems to begin with clicking which drop-down near top of screen?
More drop-down.
Need to verify in use.
Does our Jira use Resolution field?
Need to research.
Do we use a Fixed Version field?
Issue affects known version of software.
What is status?
It is the current position of the issue in your workflow. To Do, In Progress, Accepted, etc.
CK. What is the resolution field?
Ask CK.
Class. List as many Story issue Fields as you remember.
Status, description, name, points, assignee, etc.
Describe as best you can the features and purpose of the activity section at the bottom of issues.
The Activity section found at the bottom of an Issue has these five parts.
All - Comments - Work Log - Activity
Your author enjoys the Comments tab because you can send an email message with the @LastName technique.
Activity also shows all activity on an Issue. Great for understanding the Issue’s development.
Votes field.
Do we have this field?
Users can vote for an issue.
Watchers
Do we have this field?
You can watch an issue or assign others to watch issue.
What are 3 issue buttons in upper right hand corner?
Share, export, ellipsis (3 dots).
Where do you access links as perhaps indicate 1 issue blocks another.
Ellipsis for issue.
Where is Clone an issue found?
Three dots or ellipsis for the issue.
What happens when you link an issue?
Link info, like a blocker, appears at bottom of f screen.
Per Udemy video, Agility boards now have what name?
Next Gen boards.
People brand new to Agile can use what board?
The Next Gen board.
Laura. How do I view all Jira boards?
To see all of my projects?
A
Staff. Jira has an Agile board. Has anyone seen it?
A
Allison. You can create your own board to display issues from multiple different projects.
15 - Working with Different Boards, 1 m 20 seconds
Not explained.
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LB. On a scrum board, want to click on a story and see details on the right. It doesn’t always work.
Q
LB Does Jira backlog provide a split screen with issue detail on the right?
Q
LB. How do you create future sprints 1 or 2 months down the road? Instructor mentions but does not describe.
Q
True or False?
Issues can be associated with epics and releases.
True
Looking at a project you can use Backlog or Sprint view.
Which view let’s you see a split screen of story and story details?
Both.
You can use Backlog or Sprint view to see a split window of both the story summary on the left (Backlog or Sprint) and Story detail on the right side of the screen.
Quick way to add stories from backlog to future sprints?
Backlog or Sprint view?
Backlog view of a project.
Then you can drag a Story into a future Sprint.
I also believe you could right mouse click a Story and assign it to a Sprint.
Who can create an Agility board in Jira?
Only an Admin.
Jira uses color red in Kanban to show what?
That WIP rule has been exceeded.
Does Kanban have a backlog in Jira? Explain.
Yes. It exists as column on board.
On Kanban what happens in if WIP rule exceeded?
WIP column goes red.
What is Jira keystroke to create an issue?
C is correct.
What chapter discussed creating an issue?
Chapter 18.
Who controls what fields you see to create a Jira issue?
The Jira admin.
When writing a new Issue, can you configure what fields appear on that form?
This is a very valuable hint or technique.
Yes.
Begin creating an Issue, then look to the upper right hand corner of that screen. You will find a “Configure fields” choice.
Click that choice to select or de-select fields for your Create an Issue form.
Best way to search issues?
Click Issues on left menu.
Click Search.
Robust search. Need to write down list.
What is Jira smart query?
Click Search on left.
Type “my’ and J I ran returns all your Issues.
“Story”. All stories will be returned or shown.
“Epic”
What are all smart query keywords?
What is JQL?
Jira Query Language.
What are Jira smart query keywords?
my, epic, story
Visit https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/quick-searching-861257204.html for all keywords.
If you build the same JQL frequently, what could you do?
Save that filter.
Two areas of storage in Confluence?
Spaces and pages.
How so you get dynamic content on a Confluence page?
Use macros.
Name one example of a Confluence macro?
Confluence, Table of Content macro.
What are common Confluence macros for showing dynamic content?
Search Confluence on the Internet.
Dashboards exist in Jira? What are 2 main elements in Confluence?
Spaces and pages.
But don’t forget macros and templates in Confluence.
