Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA: Design and manage software projects using the Agile methodology

✍ Scribed by David Harned

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Plan, track, and release great software

Key Features

• Learn to create reports and dashboard for effective project management
• Implement your development strategy in JIRA.
• Practices to help you manage the issues in the development team

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Create your first project (and manage existing projects) in JIRA
• Manage your board view and backlogs in JIRA
• Run a Scrum Sprint project in JIRA
• Create reports (including topic-based reports)
• Forecast using versions
• Search for issues with JIRA Query Language (JQL)
• Execute bulk changes to issues
• Create custom filters, dashboards, and widgets
• Create epics, stories, bugs, and tasks

Who this book is for

This book is for administrators who wants to apply the Agile approach to managing the issues, bugs, and releases in their software development projects using JIRA.

Table of Contents

1. Get started with creating your project
2. Managing Work Items
3. Running Your Project in JIRA
4. Working with Reports
5. Searching and Filtering on Issues
6. Dashboards and Widgets

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributor
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Creating Projects
Introduction to JIRA
What is JIRA?
Creating an account with Atlassian
How JIRA uses projects to keep work organized
Project management
Summary of project settings
How to set up a project using a scheme, screens, workflows, and permissions
Screens
Workflows
Permissions
Notifications
Summary
Chapter 2: Managing Work Items
Introducing epics, stories, bugs, and tasks
Creating epics, stories, bugs, and tasks
Issue type attributes and adding and removing them
Managing items in the backlog
Creating and configuring our board
Summary
Chapter 3: Running Your Project in JIRA
Creating and starting a sprint
The daily scrum
Smaller stories and tasks
Closing the sprint – the sprint report
Summary
Chapter 4: Working with Reports
Versions and releases
Burndown reports
Burndown example one
Burndown example two
Burndown report
Sprint reports
Velocity charts
Velocity charts – an example
Release and epic burndowns
Release burndown – an example
Version and epic reports
Version report – an example
Summary
Chapter 5: Issue Searching and Filtering
Issue searching using JQL
Simple and advanced JQL editors in JIRA
Saving and managing filters
Executing bulk changes
Creating new boards from saved filters
Summary
Chapter 6: Dashboards and Widgets
Creating and managing a dashboard
Adding gadgets to our dashboard
Sharing a dashboard
Summary
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Index