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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

Tooling system


Agile recommends interactions over any process or tooling. Indeed, no team needs any tooling system, but using a tooling can help teams tremendously. Any tooling system we opt for should help the team to adapt to the Agile process and help in team collaboration and continuous improvement to increase productivity.

There are plenty of tools available in the market to start with Agile. On a first look at the Agile team requirements, some of the quick features you would like from a tooling system to help you are:

  • Easy setting up of the Agile project

  • Quick backlog creation

  • Intelligent and easy backlog grooming and ranking

  • Team collaboration between single and multiple teams

  • Intuitive task creation and status updates

  • Clear top-priority task visualization and impediment flagging

  • Clear and deep reports or charting for data

  • Each team member's day-to-day individual task tracking

  • Easy customization and flexibility for hybrid Agile process teams

  • Easy integration with business and testing teams

  • Easy integration with different development and testing tools

  • Easy and smooth fit for the distributed teams

  • Ability to enable team to continuously improve in process and new technology integration

We will further cover how such an Agile tool like GreenHopper best fits here, mapping to all your Agile team requirements.