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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


In this chapter, we have become familiar with the basic idea behind Agile. We learned about Scrum process in brief, along with the different roles, events, and artifacts for the Scrum process. We will be covering different Agile concepts along the way while using the tooling system to meet the Agile team requirements.

We have GreenHopper installed and ready to use. We covered the basic terminology of GreenHopper, which we will be using further in this book. In the upcoming chapters, we will use this terminology and will cover each one in detail.

We covered different uses and examples of the tool, and which teams can use GreenHopper based on the variations and the nature of the teams. In the upcoming chapters, we will also cover managing both Scrum and Kanban teams using GreenHopper. Backlog creation, running Sprints, and reporting will be covered in detail.

We also covered different rich features of the GreenHopper interface which will come in handy for our day-to-day work and will result in a team productivity increase. In later chapters, we will cover each of the GreenHopper rich interface features and different functionality in details while managing both the Scrum and Kanban teams.

As mentioned in the project example, in the subsequent chapters, we will create a Scrum board for a website development Scrum team. We will create a product backlog, Sprints, a task board, and different reporting charts for the Scrum team. For the site operations team, we will create a Kanban team to control work in progress and to use the task board efficiently.