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Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints

By : Jaibeer Malik
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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

Summary


We covered different ways to work with large backlog items covering backlog management from small to large scale projects. We learned to use Jira filtering functionality to work on limited product backlog for your team board.

We are now familiar with Quick Filters to quickly filter on issues on Plan and Work mode. Using Quick Filter functionality, you should be able to filter an entire backlog based on an advanced search of JQL matching your issue data.

We are now familiar with Swimlane functionality for grouping items on a task board horizontally to visualize and prioritize the work in much better way. Horizontal grouping allows you to manage backlog on task board in a much better and easier way for better productivity.

We also covered issues highlighting functionality to visually distinguish the relevant issue information in a quick and easy way.

In upcoming chapters, we will be covering how to use GreenHopper reporting functionality for sprint tracking and project reporting using...