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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 managing a dashboard

In this section, we'll cover creating and managing a dashboard. You're going to learn what a dashboard is, and how to create one.

Let's go to JIRA and take a look at some dashboards.

In our projects, we have the First Project and the Second Project; on the left-hand side, we can see Dashboards. JIRA comes with a System dashboard by default, so we can take a look at that in the following screenshot:

System dashboard—this is your default landing page

We can see an Activity Stream and some other items, but what we want to do is create our own dashboard; so, in the upper right-hand corner, click on the ellipses and go to Create dashboard. You'll see some options, where you can name the dashboard My Great Dashboard and give it a description—All the good things. We can start from a Blank dashboard, a System dashboard...