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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)

Summary

Let's talk about what we learned in this chapter. We talked about what epics, stories, bugs, and tasks are, how to use each of them, and why we use one versus the other. We learned about the different work item attributes that are available to us, then learned what they are, and how to add or remove them so that we can configure JIRA to meet the needs of our team. Then, we learned how to manage the items that are in our backlog using prioritization, assigning to epics and versions, and more. Finally, we talked about what a board is, how to configure that board so that the workflow matches our workflow, and how to effectively manage those items as they go through a sprint.

In the next chapter, we're going to go ahead and start our first sprint.