Chapter 1, Getting Started with GreenHopper, introduces the basic Agile concepts, Scrum terminology, prerequisites, installing GreenHopper, common glossary, and rich interface features.

Chapter 2, Planning Your Sprints with GreenHopper, allows creating a Jira project, Agile board, backlog items such as Epic, Story, and technical tasks, ranking the backlog items, and creating a sprint.

Chapter 3, Estimating and Time Tracking, helps to understand estimating and time tracking, estimating using Story points, business value, ideal hours, and Tempo plugin for time tracking.

Chapter 4, Using the Work Board to Update Issues, covers working with task board, adding columns, viewing issue details, updating issue status, ranking on task board, and using keyboard shortcuts.

Chapter 5, Using Quick Filters and Highlighting Issues, explains Jira filters for board, Quick Filters, Swimlanes, and using card colors for highlighting issues.

Chapter 6, Understanding the Burndown Chart, helps you to understand Burndown chart basics, typical Burndown charts, measurements units, and scope management.

Chapter 7, Ending a Sprint, covers completing a sprint, handling unfinished sprint backlog, sprint reporting, and completing an Epic.

Chapter 8, Project Reporting Using Charts, covers Agile project reporting, velocity charts, Epic reports, Control charts, and cumulative flow diagrams.

Chapter 9, Managing Kanban Team with GreenHopper, covers the Kanban system, creating a Kanban board, configuring task board columns, limiting work in progress using column constraints, creating swimlanes, ranking issues, and reporting for the Kanban team.

Appendix, Continuous Improvement, helps with the process improvements and GreenHopper tool integration points to achieve the same.

The book is about managing Agile projects using the tooling system GreenHopper. It gives the brief overview of Agile process specifically Scrum and will explain step-by-step how different roles in an Agile tool can use the book in an Agile project. Any team member, project manager, product owner, Scrum master, Scrum team member (developer, designer, tester, and so on), or even the administrator can start using the tools for the project.

As a product owner or manager you will be able to plan the project. You will be able to create your project backlog, groom it over a period of time, and plan sprints tracking your milestones in the project. Using the tooling, you will be able to coordinate different team backlogs and different projects in a much smoother way.

As a Scrum master, you will be able to track and monitor the team using the tool. You will be able to work with product owners to manage and groom the backlog better and at the same time track how the team is doing using task board. Based on your situation and the dynamics of the team, you should be able to visualize the impediments better and respond to the m faster.

As a team member, you will be able to track your day-to-day tasks, clarifications, impediments, dependencies, and use your work hours in a much better way. The rightly configured and adopted tooling system will minimize the effort and overheads of using it.

Using the book, readers will be able to kick start with GreenHopper in a quicker way and will be able to utilize the system fast. Within a few steps, you will be able to get started with an Agile project.

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