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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

Ranking issues on the task board


We have already prioritized the Sprint backlog ready with the team to start working upon. The team has the list of technical tasks on the task board which needs to be worked upon.

Each Story has a list of technical tasks attached to it. Most commonly the Scrum teams take the approach of pulling work from the To Do list rather than the Scrum master pushing it to the team. Each team member picks up a task from the list of ranked tasks on the task board. Based on inter-dependency of technical tasks, a decision needs to be made if it can be divided among multiple team members or if it would be easier if a single developer picks up similar tasks. This is up to the team dynamics considering what fits the team best.

GreenHopper allows us to rank tasks on the task board. As shown in the following screenshot, use drag-and-drop functionality to rank the tasks on the task board in a column. Make sure that ranking is enabled in the board used filter to be able to rank...