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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

Working with Swimlane


For various Agile teams, grouping issues together based on parent task or other matching criteria is very important. For example, grouping all technical tasks belonging to a story is quite common. But each team has its unique issue data, workflow conditions, and prioritization behavior.

While working on the work/task board, we have grouped or categorized the issues together in a vertical way based on issue status. Each column groups issues having the same status or equal to statuses defined for the column.

To be able to group issues in a horizontal way, GreenHopper provides additional functionality of a Swimlane. A Swimlane is a categorization of issues in a horizontal way on task board.

To access Swimlane settings, open the Tools action under your team board and click on Configure. Then, go to the Swimlanes tab.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, you have the following options available to configure Swimlanes.

Queries

JQL query is used to define grouping of issues.

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