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Jira Software Essentials

You're reading from   Jira Software Essentials Plan, track, and release great applications with Jira Software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833516
Length 192 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Patrick Li Patrick Li
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Displaying agile reports


As we saw in Chapter 2, Jira Software for Scrum and Chapter 3, Jira Software for Kanban, Jira comes with a number of reports that you can generate to get a better understanding of how your project is tracking. However, they often require you to go to your board and then generate the report manually. A better way to display and share information on your project is to take advantage of some of Jira's built-in collaboration features.

Using the Jira dashboard

The easiest way to display and share your project and sprint progress with everyone is to use the dashboard feature from Jira. A dashboard acts as a portal page for your project, and you can display different information about your project by adding gadgets onto the dashboard.

Jira comes with a number of gadgets that are designed specifically to display agile related information, including:

  • Sprint burndown gadget: This displays a burndown chart of your sprint on the dashboard. The chart will be automatically updated...
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