The JIRA Strategy Admin Workbook will save you time, money and frustration. This book is different - it's not documentation. It's recommendations from years of cleaning up horrible JIRA configurations! This workbook contains: 152 recommendations to help you set up, clean up, and maintain JIRA, 50 worksheets, plus additional templates, code snippets, and wording samples to help you establish and streamline vital processes, 33 real examples of problems to avoid, best practices and dos and don'ts for each administrative area, the top 10 mistakes I made as an administrator, and content not available anywhere else. This workbook shows you: actions for a well-planned implementation, simple ways to streamline administration, how to audit and clean up the application, ways to maintain and extend JIRA, how to create repeatable procedures, and how to stay out of the "JIRA swamp". Who This Book Is For If you're a new Administrator, or your company is just getting started with JIRA, this book will show you what actions to take up front, so you can have a well-planned and easy to maintain tool. If your company has been using JIRA for a while, this book will show you simple ways to streamline your instance and make daily work more manageable. This book is written for the: part-time Application Administrator who helps out with JIRA in addition to your "official" role; full-time Application Administrator for JIRA or the Atlassian product suite; Project Manager, Business Analyst, or other team member, who needs JIRA to fit the needs of your teams; or the Systems Administrator or Database Administrator who supports many different internal company tools.

Transform your application from a foggy, contaminated, and overgrown swamp to an organized, tidy, and trimmed garden.Key Features* Establish and streamline vital processes with more than a hundred recommendations* Apply best practices and guidelines for each administrative area* Use real-world examples to learn how to avoid common pitfallsBook DescriptionThe application development process can easily get out of hand if you do not track and control it at all times. You need a robust project management tool that tracks the issues and bugs in your project and ensures its smooth completion.The JIRA Strategy Admin Workbook begins by discussing how to set up a new application and audit and improve its functionality. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn how to upgrade and maintain an application once it is properly set up. You'll learn to create workflows that can track how your application functions, and improve it by analyzing the behavior of the workflow. You'll also learn how to use addons, plugins, and other tools that extend your application.By the end of the book, you'll gain insight into your application and discover alternative strategies to perform your administrative tasks better.What you will learn* Master all the processes for a well-planned implementation* Discover simple ways to streamline administration* Explore how to audit and clean up the application* Discover ways to maintain and extend JIRA* Learn how to create repeatable procedures* Discover ways to stay out of the 'JIRA swamp'Who This Book Is ForThis book is ideal for administrators, project managers, analysts, and organizations that want to get started with JIRA. If you have been using JIRA for a while, this book will show you simple ways to streamline your application and make daily work more manageable. To get the most out of this book, you should have an end user's understanding of JIRA functions.

If you're familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar clarifies some of the more confusing aspects by answering difficult and frequently asked questions about JIRA administration. Practical JIRA Administration shows you how JIRA is intended to be used, making it an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available. The book’s chapters are loosely connected, so you can go straight to the information that best serves your needs. Understand the difference between JIRA groups and JIRA project roles Discover what JIRA schemes do, and learn how to maintain them Use a consistent configuration approach to help you use JIRA as a platform Create a workflow from scratch Add, modify, and deactivate users Prepare for a JIRA upgrade, and troubleshoot if necessary Get remote access to JIRA via email, SQL, REST, and other methods

#1 New York Times Bestseller Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress—to measure what mattered. Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove ("the greatest manager of his or any era") drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked. In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization's most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention. In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals. Youâ??ll explore the basic operations and common functions of Sparkâ??s structured APIs, as well as Structured Streaming, a new high-level API for building end-to-end streaming applications. Developers and system administrators will learn the fundamentals of monitoring, tuning, and debugging Spark, and explore machine learning techniques and scenarios for employing MLlib, Sparkâ??s scalable machine-learning library. Get a gentle overview of big data and Spark Learn about DataFrames, SQL, and Datasetsâ??Sparkâ??s core APIsâ??through worked examples Dive into Sparkâ??s low-level APIs, RDDs, and execution of SQL and DataFrames Understand how Spark runs on a cluster Debug, monitor, and tune Spark clusters and applications Learn the power of Structured Streaming, Sparkâ??s stream-processing engine Learn how you can apply MLlib to a variety of problems, including classification or recommendation

One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of Practical JIRA Administration—shows you how to create and maintain your own JIRA plugins to meet the specific needs of a project. This book uses detailed examples to clarify some of the more confusing aspects of JIRA plugins, and serves as an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available. Use JIRA’s Plugin SDK, and learn several aspects common to all plugins Create your own custom field type, using a JIRA plugin Delve into advanced aspects of custom field plugins, and discover how searching for values in custom fields works Create JIRA plugins to use with workflows, and learn about conditions, validators, and post-functions Store data using the PropertySet interface and the Active Objects plugin Upgrade a plugin and upload it to Atlassian Plugin Exchange (PAC)