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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

Reporting in GreenHopper


To access the reporting information and different available charts in GreenHopper, go to your team Agile board and click on the Report link.

GreenHopper supports the following charts to report the status for your board:

  • Burndown chart: This shows the Sprint backlog status and the work left over the span of the Sprint. The measurement units are as configured in the estimation statistics.

  • Sprint report: This shows Sprint backlog items information for a completed Sprint. The detailed view of burndown chart and the sprint backlog items are also displayed.

  • Epic report: This shows progress of an epic over the span of different sprints, the status of completion, and incomplete issues in an epic.

  • Velocity chart: This shows the team velocity for completed sprints, the number of estimated points covered or completed in each Sprint.

  • Control chart: This shows the cycle time for each issue and how long each status in the workflow state took to change to the next state.

  • Cumulative...