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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)

Versions and releases

Let's start with versions and releases. In this section, you'll learn what versions and releases are, and how they interact with one another. We'll discuss how to create and manage versions, how to assign work to versions, how to perform a release, and finally, how to view the contents of a release once we've created it.

Versions come from the concept of software. We're all familiar with the major and minor versions of a software (for example, version 2.0 versus version 2.1). These represent a large amount of value, so that's a way to think about it—a version represents a chunk of value that's being deployed. Versions can be released, so once we've determined what's in a version and we've completed it, we can release it, and that version will become a release. They're the same thing, but one is...