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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

By : David Harned
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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

By: David Harned

Overview of this book

As teams scale in size, project management can get very complicated. One of the best tools to deal with this kind of problem is JIRA. This book will start by organizing your project requirements and the principles of Agile development to get you started. You will then be introduced to set up a JIRA account and the JIRA ecosystem to help you implement a dashboard for your team's work and issues. You will learn how to manage any issues and bugs that might emerge in the development stage. Going ahead, the book will help you build reports and use them to plan the releases based on the study of the reports. Towards the end, you will come across working with the gathered data and create a dashboard that helps you track the project's development.

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Table of Contents (8 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Getting Started with Creating Projects
Getting Started with Creating Projects
Introduction to JIRA
Creating an account with Atlassian
How JIRA uses projects to keep work organized
Project management
How to set up a project using a scheme, screens, workflows, and permissions
Summary
2
Managing Work Items
Managing Work Items
Introducing epics, stories, bugs, and tasks
Issue type attributes and adding and removing them
Managing items in the backlog
Creating and configuring our board
Summary
3
Running Your Project in JIRA
Running Your Project in JIRA
Creating and starting a sprint
The daily scrum
Smaller stories and tasks
Closing the sprint – the sprint report
Summary
4
Working with Reports
Working with Reports
Versions and releases
Burndown reports
Sprint reports
Velocity charts
Release and epic burndowns
Version and epic reports
Summary
5
Issue Searching and Filtering
Issue Searching and Filtering
Issue searching using JQL
Saving and managing filters
Executing bulk changes
Creating new boards from saved filters
Summary
6
Dashboards and Widgets
Dashboards and Widgets
Creating and managing a dashboard
Adding gadgets to our dashboard
Sharing a dashboard
Summary
7
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Introduction to JIRA

This section will cover the JIRA software essentials. In this section, you will learn about what JIRA is, how to get started with creating projects, and how JIRA organizes the work items within the software.

What is JIRA?

JIRA has been around for a while; originally, it was an issue ticketing system (a bug tracking kind of software). Project management has evolved over the years, and agile processes have become increasingly more popular, so JIRA has evolved into a very effective agile project management tool for both Scrum and Kanban. It is now very powerful in that regard.

JIRA currently offers three different packages, as follows:

  • JIRA Core
  • JIRA Software
  • JIRA Service Desk

JIRA has a huge community, with lots of add-ons that allow for planning, tracking, releasing, and reporting; this gives us even more functionality than what we'd get out of the box. You can learn more about JIRA at https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira.

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