Category: Jira Tutorial 2025

What is a JIRA Issue? Understanding JIRA “Issues" is key to managing projects in Jira. For legacy reasons, in Jira, records are known as “Issues". When JIRA started out as a defect bug and issue tracking software tool, a record was known as an issue. However, use of Jira well beyond defect and bug tracking, has grown. You'll find it easier to think of an issue in JIRA as a record used to track a unit of work. Every record in JIRA is a record of information that we're using to track a particular piece and type of work. You could think of an issue as a “digital card" that holds all the details about a piece of work that...

Are you looking to enhance your project management skills with Jira? Whether you're using Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management, or any other version of Jira, understanding the fundamental building blocks is crucial. In the following series of videos we take you through six of the fundamental building blocks to Jira. What You’ll Learn Our course is structured around six core concepts that form the foundation of Jira: Issues: Discover what constitutes an issue and explore the various issue properties. Projects: Learn how to use projects as containers for different aspects of your work, organizing multiple issues efficiently. Workflow and Status: Understand how to configure status values for your issues and set up transitions to model your organization’s...