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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

By : David Harned
Book Image

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.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Creating and configuring our board

In this section, we're going to learn how to create and configure our board, and so we're going to talk about the following:

  • The differences between a virtual scrum board and an actual scrum board
  • The columns that represent workflow states, and how to modify a workflow
  • Swimlanes
  • Estimation options – time versus story points

Let's go ahead and go over to JIRA. We can see that we've actually taken the backlog items that were not in our ready sprint and pulled them into Sprint 0. This will eventually be the sprint that we'll put on our sprint board, but in the meantime, we have to get our board ready. In preparation for our sprint, we've assigned story point values to each of these stories. It is very important that we assign the sizing before we start a sprint, as it will represent the commitment. We are...