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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

Agile project management


Project management is about planning, reporting, scope, cost, risk, organizing, motivating, and managing people and resources to achieve specific goals. With Agile, the basic concept is self-organizing the team with different roles. On a Scrum project, we have roles like product owner, Scrum master, and team.

Product owner takes responsibility from the business side of the product and has the authority to make business decisions. The Scrum master acts as the team coach to remove impediments, facilitate meetings, monitor day-to-day tasks, and track project progress by performing typical project management duties. A self-organizing team is capable of working as a team to find continuous improvements.

Some of the typical tasks and requirements from an Agile project management perspective are:

  • Planning and prioritizing deliveries across single or multiple teams

  • Making sure backlog items are visible to everyone

  • Making sure clarifications or impediments are cleared up soon

  • Grooming backlog items over time

  • Communicating vision and goals around team

  • Planning Sprint effectively

  • Tracking Sprint progress

  • Long-term planning for products

  • Making development process facilitation and improvements

  • Working towards developing team productivity improvements

  • Reporting on iteration and functionality level for better planning

  • Planning roadmaps based on the work done, and the work left to do

  • Increasing collaboration between team members and multiple teams