In this chapter, we looked at some of the basics of Jira Software and its support for agile methodologies. We installed an instance of Jira Software from scratch and created a project using the Scrum project template with sample data, which we will use in later chapters.

Now that we have laid out the basics of Jira Software, we will start to explore how we can use it to run agile projects, starting with the Scrum methodology in the next chapter.