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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 configuring our board

In this section, we're going to learn how to create and configure our board, and so we're going to talk about the following:

  • The differences between a virtual scrum board and an actual scrum board
  • The columns that represent workflow states, and how to modify a workflow
  • Swimlanes
  • Estimation options – time versus story points

Let's go ahead and go over to JIRA. We can see that we've actually taken the backlog items that were not in our ready sprint and pulled them into Sprint 0. This will eventually be the sprint that we'll put on our sprint board, but in the meantime, we have to get our board ready. In preparation for our sprint, we've assigned story point values to each of these stories. It is very important that we assign the sizing before we start a sprint, as it will represent the commitment. We are...

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