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Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints

By : Jaibeer Malik
Book Image

Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints

By: Jaibeer Malik

Overview of this book

Agile methodologies like Scrum focus on customer values in an incremental way. Regular planning, tracking, reporting, and improving can become equally challenging from a project management perspective. GreenHopper is a tooling support for JIRA that offers easy adoption of agile practices through rich interfaces for effective team collaboration and project management. Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints is a step-by-step guide that teaches you how to manage agile projects using the GreenHopper tooling system. With easy adoption using pre-sets for Scrum & Kanban, the rich interface focuses on the work at hand, increasing team productivity. Executing sprints, tracking sprints, and reporting on agile projects has never been so easy. The integration with different development environments helps teams to focus on collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement. This book covers agile project management concepts using GreenHopper. You will learn about backlog management for your agile team, how to create projects and boards for your agile team, and how to create new backlog items, prioritize items, estimate backlog items, create sprints, and update technical task status and report on the same. You will learn everything you need to know about managing an agile project using GreenHopper and how to achieve the best value for your team.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding a column to the task board


In actual projects, the workflow of the issues is still quite complex. The team starts working on an issue, completes the development, deploys it to Quality Assurance environment, sends it for user acceptance testing, and a few more intermediate steps, then it can be marked as completed. We need additional columns and status for the task board and issues for this.

Go to the Tools action, click on the Configure option and select the Columns tab.

The following screenshot displays the default status for the issues and the default columns for a Scrum task board based on Jira default configurations.

Click on the Add Column button to add a column to the task board.

Enter the name of the column as Verify. If you only have one unmapped status, Verify in our case, it will automatically be mapped to a new column. Otherwise drag and drop the Verify status from the Unmapped Status column to the newly added Verify column.

Go to your team board and click on the Work link,...