Creating an account with Atlassian

In this section, we're going to learn how to create an account and how to set up our JIRA software so that we can begin using it for project management:

1. Open the Atlassian website. We'll see that there's plenty of information about the company, about some of the different software products that they have, and more. We'll go to the Try free button at the top of the page:

2. We'll see that they've got some options. We're going to use the Jira Software. They have a server version and a cloud version:

3. We're going to be using the cloud version, so let's select that. We can see that we can try it for free for seven days, but we've also got some different options for once it becomes a paid subscription. Since we're just a small team, we're going to go ahead and take the first option, which is $10 a month, and we're going to Try it free:

4. We'll see that on the following screen, it's going to ask us to go ahead and set up our URL. We'll choose digitalcoffeetest, we'll put in our name, our email, and we can see that we then have to add a password:

Once we do that, the website will go ahead and send us an email to validate the data that we have just given them. Once we check our email and validate that the information is correct, we will then go back to the site and log in.

Creating an account is that easy.