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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

Viewing the Burndown chart in GreenHopper


To view the Burndown chart, as shown in the following screenshot, go to the Agile tab, select your Agile team board, and click on the Report link and select Burndown Chart.

It will display the Burndown chart for your currently running Sprint. To see the Burndown chart for a Sprint, you need to start the Sprint first in the Plan mode.

You can view the Burndown chart for active Sprint. You can also see the chart for the completed Sprint.

As shown in the following screenshot, you can select to view the Burndown chart for finished Sprints and the currently active Sprint.

Looking at earlier Sprint Burndown charts, you can compare how the team is performing over releases in term of completing work in a Sprint. As discussed in the earlier section based on the nature of typical Burndown charts, you will be able to compare Burndown charts for different Sprints and take relevant next steps to improve upon how work is completed in a Sprint.