Using Jira Core for business teams
Great work, you have a Cloud instance of Jira ready. Now let's first get familiar with the basic features of the tool. Let's quickly create a project in Jira Core.
Creating a new project
Let's now create a new project in Jira:
- On the
Welcome
screen, click on theCreate sample project
button, as shown in the following:

Figure 2
- On the
Create project with sample data
screen, you'll be asked to select a template, which in this case would just beProject management
, as we just have the Jira Core application in our instance. When we install Jira Software and Jira Service Desk, then more templates will appear in this screen. Click on theNext
button:

Figure 3
- The next screen will ask you to provide some information. Enter the
Name
asHuman Resource
; theKey
will automatically be set toHR
but you can change it if you want; andProject lead
will be your name but, when you add more people in your instance, you'll select their names. Finally, click on theSubmit
button...