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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 columns and limiting work in progress


To view the currently configured columns for your Kanban board, go to the Tools action, click on Configure and select the Columns tab. The screen will show you existing statuses and column mappings for your work board.

Check the Simplified Workflow status on your screen. If you had created a project and Kanban board from the Getting Started page, the GreenHopper Simplified Workflow will be automatically available to you as shown in the following screenshot.

We will be adding a new status and column to our work flow here. A new column Queue will be added to store the prioritized list of backlog items.

To add a new status, click on the Add Status button and enter status name as Queue. To add a new column, click on the Add Column button and enter column name as Queue.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, the following columns have been configured for the Kanban board:

  • Goals: This lists the items which, on creation in the backlog, will automatically...