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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

You're reading from   Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA Design and manage software projects using the Agile methodology

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789532135
Length 158 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Creating and starting a sprint

In this section, we will cover the following topics:

  • The backlog view, which allows us to prioritize the stories, tasks, bugs, and the elements within them
  • Filtered views of the backlog
  • Creating sprints to use as containers for the work
  • Story point estimation
  • Sizing the team commitment
  • Adjustment to a sprint

Let's go to JIRA, and then to our FP project. This is the Backlog view, and we have some stories in the backlog, as shown in the following screenshot:

Backlog view

In the preceding screenshot, you can see four stories, a task, and a bug. We can prioritize these items by dragging and dropping them, and we can move them around and put them into whatever priority order we would like. The most important item will be on the top.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, these stories have point values. On the right-hand side of our first story...

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