Jira examples.

[Анатолий]

Hi,

I am new to Jira and would like to understand how to use it in real life. It is great when it is explained how to create issue or bug but the problem is to use this knowledge in real life. It will be more useful if Atlassian will give an example of using it and explain when to create a story or task, how they are relate to each other based on demo example. I hate when the task is created and named "New task", same with bug, etc.

Please provide meaningful demo examples.

Thanks

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Анатолий 

Jira is a tool to help teams collaborate and manage their work.  You may want to start with how does your team work today, and then consider how Jira can help (or not).

For some generic advice about agile team ideas from Atlassian, please look here:

https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook

Best regards,

Bill

[Анатолий]

Hi Bill,

Actually this is not my case. I am the person without project management experience but with the need to create an application. I hired developer but because all discussions were in emails some features are not developed or not developed properly. I would like to organize my project and would like to make it right from the very beginning. It is little bit confusing all the terminology and all courses or books I read focus on features but not on simple and real life project.

User guide at Atlassian didn't help at all.

When to use Epic? When to use Story? Do I have to have Story and Tasks as Childs for Stories? How big is the Story? Is it Epic a feature in the application or it is one Epic for whole application.

Thanks

[Bill Sheboy]

Thanks for that information.  You may want to consider an approach like story mapping, which is described here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/How-to-use-a-story-map-in-Jira/ba-p/1082373

This method helps people see the big picture of the problems being solved, find gaps and issues, select features by need and release in order to experiment, and ideas for how to decompose to smaller work items.

For a more in-depth reference on story mapping, please take a look at Jeff Patton's book on the topic.

https://www.jpattonassociates.com/user-story-mapping/

[Анатолий]

I took a look at the mapping approach. It was useful to know but it didn't answer my questions about how to organize project properly.