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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

Estimating the backlog with hours


You can also use ideal days, as explained in earlier sections, to estimate your backlog item.

Go to your team board configuration screen, and under the Estimation tab configure the Estimation Statistics, and select the Original Time Estimate option.

The Original Estimate field is used to store hour information for estimations. To add an estimate, update the field value with original estimates while creating an issue.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, you will be using Jira time tracking functionality and corresponding fields. You can use the same Jira time tracking format to enter the estimates.

You can also use the issue details page to update the estimates. The Estimate field value is automatically updated for the original estimate time field.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, you can enter hour estimates in the Jira time format. The hour estimation values are automatically updated in the backlog items panel and accordingly epic details are also updated...