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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)

Velocity charts

In this section, we'll discuss velocity charts. Velocity charts are very valuable. We'll cover what they are, how to read them, and how to use our past velocity to plan our future commitments.

Velocity charts – an example

Let's take a look at an example of a velocity chart, as follows:

Velocity chart example

To orient us to the preceding chart, let's take a look at its different elements. The gray bars represent what we've committed to in each of our sprints, and we can see that this is measured in STORY POINTS. In this example, we can see that in Sprint 3, we've actually committed to 25 story points. The green bar represents what the team finished, and in this example...