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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

Configuring working and non-working days


GreenHopper allows you to change the time zone settings for your board. You can also configure which weekdays your team will be working. You can also set which days your team will not be working based on holidays and vacations.

To set working and non-working days for your team, go to the Tools action, select Configure, and go to the Working Days tab. As shown in the following screenshot, you have the following configuration available to set the time zone, working, and non-working days for your team.

Time zone

The time zone allows you to select which time zone the team is working in.

Standard working days

You have to select each day of the week the team normally works. The days not selected will appear as a grey background in the Burndown chart, as shown in the following screenshot:

Non-working days

This allows you to configure the holidays on which teams won't be working. Click on the Add Date button to add a non-working date to the list.

As shown in the...