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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

Updating issue details on the task board


While working on an issue, the team needs to update issue details. There can be multiple operations which can be required for a task as follows:

  • Assign issue to myself or a team member

  • Edit issue details such as the summary or description

  • Log work on the issue

  • Display quick details about Story to which the issue belongs to

  • View comments on the issue

  • View attached files to the issue

You would be able to do all the preceding and many more operations related to a task being on the task board itself. All these actions can be performed in the issue details panel.

To view an issue detail, click on the issue key link on the task board. The issue details panel will be displayed as shown in following screenshot on the right-hand side of the board displaying the details for the selected issue:

The tag panel allows you to view issue details, description, comments, and files attached to the issue.

The inline editing functionality will allow you to update issue details...