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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

In this chapter, we learned how to use JIRA to run our project, how to create a sprint, and how to bring refined backlog items in so that we can have a sprint that meets the definition of ready. We determined how big a sprint commitment should be, using yesterday's weather to help us. You also learned how to start a sprint, and how to use JIRA during a daily Scrum and throughout the sprint. We looked at burndowns and board views.

We also discussed how to best help the sprint succeed by using JIRA as a tool, and the different concepts used to structure work, so that our team is most effective as they're moving through the sprint in the board view, either through sub-tasks or smaller stories. Finally, you learned how to complete a sprint.

In the next chapter, we'll discuss reporting.