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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 starting a sprint

In this section, we will cover the following topics:

  • The backlog view, which allows us to prioritize the stories, tasks, bugs, and the elements within them
  • Filtered views of the backlog
  • Creating sprints to use as containers for the work
  • Story point estimation
  • Sizing the team commitment
  • Adjustment to a sprint

Let's go to JIRA, and then to our FP project. This is the Backlog view, and we have some stories in the backlog, as shown in the following screenshot:

Backlog view

In the preceding screenshot, you can see four stories, a task, and a bug. We can prioritize these items by dragging and dropping them, and we can move them around and put them into whatever priority order we would like. The most important item will be on the top.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, these stories have point values. On the right-hand side of our first story...