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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)

The daily scrum

Now, we have a sprint running. In this section, we'll discuss the daily scrum.

In this section, you'll learn about the following topics:

  • How to use JIRA daily, as we're moving through a sprint
  • How to use the board and burndown points or hours
  • How to know whether sprint is on or off track

During a sprint, we want to use JIRA to move sprint work items through a workflow. We have our board with the columns on it—To Do, In Progress, and Done. We want to use JIRA to make sure that we're on track, because if we're doing a two-week sprint, we want to know as soon as possible whether we're on track, so that we can make adjustments in real time. We need to be able to generate data that we're going to need for reports at the end of the sprint, and JIRA will do that for us automatically. We just need to follow some day-to-day process...