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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)

Adding gadgets to our dashboard

In this section, we'll cover adding gadgets to our dashboard. You'll learn how to add the filter results gadget to a dashboard, as well as the pie chart gadget and the two-dimensional filter statistics. These are only a few of the options that are available. There are lots and lots of gadgets, but these are some of my favorites.

Let's go ahead and add some gadgets. Go back to JIRA; remember, we were dealing with My Great Dashboard, which we created in the last section.

There's something that you should know about gadgets. First of all, there are lots of them, and JIRA comes preloaded with quite a few. When we took a look at the Atlassian marketplace, there were about 95 different gadgets that were available for us to load into our dashboard, as well. There's even a gadget there to help us create our own gadgets! In addition...