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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)

Release and epic burndowns

In this section, we'll discuss release and epic burndowns, how important they are, and how we can use them to give us some insight into how things are going. You're going to learn about what release and epic burndowns are, how to read the reports, and how to use the reports for forecasting.

Release burndown – an example

Now, we will look at an example of a release burndown.

Keep in mind that a release is a version. Essentially, it's a version that's been deployed. An epic is also a container of work, and is independent of a version.

Releases and epics are both containers for work. An epic is a large story that spans multiple sprints. Although a release is generally larger...