JIRA Essentials, Third Edition provides a comprehensive explanation covering all major features of Atlassian JIRA, broken down and organized in logical order. The book starts by showing you how to set up your own JIRA instance before introducing you to key features and concepts such as business processes, workflows, e-mails, and notifications. This book will show you how to develop software more efficiently by planning, designing, and customizing your own JIRA implementation. At the end of each chapter, you will have the opportunity to put your newly acquired knowledge into practice by following a step-by-step, hands-on project that you will build throughout the book.
I'm starting a new job soon, and since they use Jira for their helpdesk, I was looking for something to give me a flyover of the program and show me some screenshots. This book is a good comprehensive overview of Jira.
The chapters are laid out as building blocks to introduce you to Jira. In the back of each chapter are steps for a project to create a helpdesk in Jira. Jira has a module you can purchase, but this project did a nice job of showing how powerful the program is. I set up Jira on my personal computer with a MySQL database and I was up and running. The book does a good job of not being too complex or easy and I found it very easy to follow along with the exercises. There aren't a lot of books out there on Jira (that I could see), but this is a good one if you need to work with the program.