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Jira 8 Essentials

You're reading from   Jira 8 Essentials Effective project tracking and issue management with enhanced Jira 8.21 and Data Center features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232652
Length 412 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Patrick Li Patrick Li
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Jira
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Jira Data Center FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Using Jira for Business Projects 4. Part 2: Jira in Action
5. Chapter 3: Using Jira for Agile Projects 6. Chapter 4: Working with Issues 7. Chapter 5: Field Management 8. Chapter 6: Screen Management 9. Part 3: Advanced Jira
10. Chapter 7: Workflow and Business Process 11. Chapter 8: Emails and Notifications 12. Chapter 9: Securing Jira 13. Chapter 10: Searching, Reporting, and Analysis 14. Chapter 11: Jira Service Management 15. Chapter 12: Jira and Third Party Apps 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Grooming your backlog

If you are using Scrum or Kanplan, then a big part of your routine will be to groom your backlog. This means making sure that high-priority items are floated to the top and not getting buried. This is a constant exercise and is especially important as you and your team approach the start of a new sprint, in the case of Scrum. With Kanplan, it is just as important to prioritize the tasks so that your team can maintain their throughput and not violate any constraints because of poor planning.

Jira’s backlog comes with several handy features to help you avoid turning backlog grooming into a tedious exercise. To prioritize issues in your backlog, you simply move the high-priority issues up and move the low-priority issues down. While this seems very simple, as your backlog grows, it can become tricky to drag an issue from the bottom of a backlog with hundreds of issues to the top – and let’s not forget that newly added issues go to the bottom...

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