Implement future-proof solutions for all types of teams with Data Center by learning about performance, reliability, scalability, and security

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Key Features

• Explore all of Jira's core features as well as the advanced features offered by Data Center

• Learn to use Jira for issue management, field management, screen management, and business workflows

• Install, update, and manage third-party apps from Atlassian marketplace to extend Jira capabilities

Book Description

This new and improved sixth edition comes with the latest Jira 8.21 Data Center offerings, with enhanced features such as clustering, advanced roadmaps, custom field optimization, and tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. This comprehensive guide to Jira 8.20.x LTS version provides updated content on project tracking, issue and field management, workflows, Jira Service Management, and security.

The book begins by showing you how to plan and set up a new Jira instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, and business processes. You'll also get to grips with Jira's data hierarchy and design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book will help you understand the different issues that can arise in your projects. As you advance, you'll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. Workflows, business processes, and guides on setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers will be covered alongside Jira's security model and Jira Service Management. Toward the end, you'll learn how Jira capabilities are extended with third-party apps from Atlassian marketplace.

By the end of this Jira book, you'll have understood core components and functionalities of Jira and be able to implement them in business projects with ease.

What you will learn

• Examine various deployment options and system requirements for hosting Jira Data Center

• Understand Jira's data hierarchy and learn how to design and work with projects in Jira

• Use Jira for agile software projects, business process management, customer service support, and more

• Explore field configuration schemes and find out how to apply them to projects

• Develop and design customized screens and apply them to different projects

• Create configurable reports on projects and share information through dashboards for reporting and analysis

Who this book is for

This book is especially useful for project managers, but it's also intended for other Jira users, including developers, and any other industry besides software development, who would like to leverage Jira's powerful task management and workflow features to better manage their business processes.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Jira Data Center

2. Using Jira for Business Projects

3. Using Jira for Agile Projects

4. Working with Issues

5. Field Management

6. Screen Management

7. Workflow and Business Process

8. Emails and Notifications

9. Securing Jira

10. Searching, Reporting, and Analysis

11. Jira Service Management

12. Jira and Third-Party Apps

Harness the Power of Atlassian Confluence to achieve sustainable enterprise collaboration with this one-stop guide covering real-world business scenarios

Key Features

• Manage cross-functional distributed teams working on enterprise resources with ease

• Extend Confluence with Atlassian tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, and third-party tools like Miro, Figma, and Dropbox

• Create a single source of truth for enterprise-wide projects for productive collaboration

• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Implementing Atlassian Confluence is an all-encompassing guide to the essential concepts of distributed work and leveraging Confluence to create a world-class collaboration environment.

This book begins with an introduction to enterprise collaboration concepts and explains how to set up Confluence. You’ll quickly proceed to creating and maintaining dynamic content, effective cross-functional collaboration, and employing Confluence applications in scenarios such as software project management and knowledge bases.

You’ll discover how to use Jira Service Management together with Confluence, set up personal spaces, implement centralized user management, address security risks, and explore suggested solutions on Confluence. Furthermore, you’ll integrate and extend Confluence with other Atlassian and third-party software. The book also contains tips and guidance on managing Confluence adoption, enabling you to focus on your team and provide them with a state-of-the-art remote collaboration environment.

Complete with practical business scenarios, best practices, and examples, this book will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of Atlassian Confluence’s capabilities for enhancing collaboration within cross-functional teams.

What you will learn

• Create, organize, and manage sustainable content on Confluence while enhancing collaboration

• Learn effective team collaboration techniques to boost productivity and efficiency

• Grasp the essential principles of scaling Confluence to meet your organizational needs

• Configure Confluence as a hub for external systems

• Use Jira Service Management and Confluence together

• Integrate Confluence with tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, and Teams for a seamless workflow

• Enhance Confluence by adding and personalizing new functionalities for your unique requirements

Who this book is for

This Atlassian Confluence book is for anyone looking to leverage the world-class collaboration platform for remote and distributed teams to collaborate efficiently, securely, and enjoyably. Whether you are a Confluence administrator, Confluence user, project manager, agile team leader, member of a management information systems team, or part of an asynchronous team looking to adopt Atlassian Confluence, you’ll find value in this guide.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Enterprise Collaboration

2. Setting up Confluence

3. Creating and organizing content

4. Collaborating with your team

5. Mastering dynamic contents

6. Creating a space for a software project

7. Creating a space for product management

8. Setting up a Knowledge Base

9. Setting up a personal space

10. Connecting all teams

11. Introduction to Scaling Confluence

12. Assuring Security and Compliance

13. Integrating and extending Confluence

14. Challenges and Solutions

15. What's next

“While you’re reading Neuro Web Design, you’ll probably find yourself thinking ‘I already knew that…’ a lot. But when you’re finished, you’ll discover that your ability to create effective web sites has mysteriously improved. A brilliant idea for a book, and very nicely done.”
— Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think!

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Why do people decide to buy a product online? Register at your Web site? Trust the information you provide? Neuro Web Design applies the research on motivation, decision making, and neuroscience to the design of Web sites. You will learn the unconscious reasons for people’s actions, how emotions affect decisions, and how to apply the principles of persuasion to design Web sites that encourage users to click.

Neuro Web Design employs “neuro-marketing” concepts, which are at the intersection of psychology and user experience. It’s scientific, yet you’ll find it accessible, easy to read, and easy to understand. By applying the concepts and examples in this book, you’ll be able to dramatically increase the effectiveness and conversion rates of your own Web site.

Seamlessly integrate Atlassian Open DevOps tools such as Jira, Bitbucket Pipelines, Compass, Confluence, and Opsgenie with other automated testing, monitoring, and security tools such as SonarQube and Snyk for a powerful and agile DevSecOps deployment process

Key Features

• Streamline development progress visibility by connecting Jira with other DevOps tools through Open DevOps

• Enhance observability by integrating development tools like Bitbucket Pipelines with Compass

• Learn best practices for DevSecOps integrations and processes using real-world examples

• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Implementing DevOps practices and toolchains for automated testing and deployment can accelerate product development with minimal errors in the production environment. However, creating DevOps toolchains by integrating tools from various vendors presents challenges for both administrators and developers. Written by four well-known experts from the Atlassian community, this book addresses the complexities of DevOps toolchain creation and integration by leveraging Atlassian’s Open DevOps solution.

Starting with a holistic overview of the DevOps and Atlassian Open DevOps solution, you’ll learn to integrate Jira with other tools. You’ll then find out how to create and integrate a CI/CD pipeline in Bitbucket for automated testing and deployment to Docker containers. With step-by-step guidance, you’ll connect Jira and Bitbucket with other tools, such as Snyk for security and SonarQube for testing, to form an extensive toolchain. You’ll also learn how Compass uses CheckOps for observability and how to use Confluence for documentation and reporting. Finally, you’ll leverage Opsgenie’s ChatOps functionality to enhance collaboration between developers and operations teams.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to establish your DevOps toolchain by integrating Atlassian tools to automate and optimize the software development lifecycle and beyond.

What you will learn

• Extend reporting capabilities in Jira using Open DevOps

• Integrate Jira with popular tools for tracking the build and deployment status

• Track the progress of product ideas with Jira Product Discovery

• Document and report projects using Confluence

• Create and deploy CI/CD pipelines in Bitbucket and perform testing in SonarQube

• Integrate security scanning into your CI/CD pipeline using Snyk

• Create an observability portal in Compass

• Use Opsgenie to collaborate with other teams when incidents occur

Who this book is for

This book is a valuable resource for DevOps engineers, platform engineers, SREs, software developers, and Atlassian tool administrators who want to automate testing, integration, and deployment processes using the Atlassian DevOps toolchain. A basic understanding of DevOps processes will be beneficial. While prior knowledge of administering Atlassian tools may be helpful, it is not necessary, as the recipes cover the administrative tasks needed to implement the DevOps toolchain and practices.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to DevOps and the Atlassian Ecosystem

2. Discovering Customer Needs with Jira Product Discovery

3. Planning and Documentation with Confluence

4. Enabling Connections for Design, Source Control, and Continuous Integration

5. Understanding Bitbucket and Bitbucket Pipelines

6. Extending and Executing Bitbucket Pipelines

7. Leveraging Test Case Management and Security Tools for DevSecOps

8. Deploying with Bitbucket Pipelines