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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

Creating a Kanban board in GreenHopper


We have a fair idea by now how a Kanban system works. We will be covering further how to use GreenHopper to manage such Kanban teams. GreenHopper has inbuilt support for Kanban system to create a board, limit work in progress, and track and report Kanban teams.

To create a Kanban board in GreenHopper, navigate to Agile tab and click on Getting Started. Select the option of Kanban Managed Flow. Click on the link Create a new Kanban board in the next step.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, enter the board name and select relevant projects for which you want to create the Kanban board.

If you don't have a project in place yet, you can click on the create a project and board link to create both project and board. Once you are ready with your board, you will be directed to the work mode of your Kanban board.