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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

Typical Burndown charts


The Ideal Burndown chart, in the preceding diagram, represents how work should be completed over time in a Sprint by the team. But in practical scenarios, the estimated values don't work in linear ways. There are days when more productivity is achieved and there are days when the curve may be stagnant.

Your team Burndown chart will also show the team state, as to whether the team is working at a sustainable pace or not. Use the Burndown chart throughout the Sprint to gauge progress and take corrective action when necessary, and also as a historic guide for planning the next Sprint commitments.

We will first discuss some typical Burndown charts which will give you some understanding about how a team is performing in a particular Sprint. The charts won't picture the actual nature and scenario for a team, but it is just an indication you can get from the chart.

Ideal team

The team burns the Sprint backlog as close to the linear way as possible. The estimated work is burned...