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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 board


A board in GreenHopper is a place to display issues from single or multiple projects. If you already have created a board in the last section, you may skip down to the next Plan mode section.

You can create a board by clicking on create a new Scrum board link as shown in the first screenshot on the Getting started page:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, enter the following values for new board:

  • Board Name: The name of the board. You will also be able to edit the name of the board later.

  • Projects: Allows you to select a single project or multiple projects based on your team configurations. GreenHopper also allows you to create a board based on multiple Jira projects. Based on your team configurations, if you are using an individual Jira project for each team, you can still create a single board to visualize and manage multiple teams.

A typical Scrum board, displayed in the preceding screenshot, is the representation of three main phases; which are Planning, Tracking, and...