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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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Kanban

Kanban is another agile methodology that is supported by Jira Software. Unlike Scrum (which was introduced in Chapter 2, Jira Software for Scrum), which revolves around the notion of running your project in planned iterations called sprints, Kanban does not run in iterations, or rather, the use of iteration is optional with Kanban.

In a nutshell, Kanban has the following three concepts:

  • Visualizing workflow: This breaks down your tasks (issues) and puts them on the board. You need to organize your board so that each column represents a status in your overall workflow, ordered from left (start) to right (finish).
  • Limiting the work in progress (WIP): This sets minimum and maximum limits for how many tasks can be in any given workflow status.
  • Measuring the lead time: This calculates the average time required to complete one task, keeping it as low and predictable as possible...
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