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Jira Software Essentials
Jira Software Essentials

Jira Software Essentials: Plan, track, and release great applications with Jira Software , Second Edition

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Jira Software Essentials

Jira Software for Scrum

Scrum is one of the agile methodologies supported by Jira Software. Unlike the old days, when a single project manager would use either a spreadsheet or Microsoft Project to keep track of a project's progress, with Jira Software and Scrum, team participation is encouraged to improve collaboration between different project stakeholders. In this chapter, we will look at how we can use Jira Software to unlock the power of Scrum.

By the end of the chapter, you will have learned about the following topics:

  • An overview of Scrum
  • Setting up a Scrum board
  • Managing an issue backlog
  • Estimating work and team velocities
  • Running the Scrum sprint
  • Tracking and reviewing sprint progress

Scrum

Unlike the traditional waterfall methodology, where every task or project phase is sequential, Scrum prescribes the notion of iteration. At a high level, with Scrum, a project is broken up into a number of iterations called sprints. Each sprint is usually one or two weeks long. The project team completes a portion of the overall project, and the project is completed when all the sprints are finished. With this approach, the project team is able to do the following:

  • Continuously deliver with each sprint so that feedback can be gathered early
  • Accommodate changes during the project life cycle
  • Identify issues early on rather than at the very end, which is costly
  • Continuously improve the process with retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint

Roles in Scrum

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Creating a new Scrum board

The first step to start using Jira Software for Scrum is to create a Scrum board for your project. If you created your project by using the Scrum project template, as shown in Chapter 1, Jira Software Basics, a Scrum board is automatically created for you, along with the project.

However, if you want to create a board for existing projects, or if you want your board to span across multiple projects, you will need to create it separately. To create a new board, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on the Boards menu item from the top navigation bar and select the View all boards option.
  2. Click on the Create board button. This will bring up the Create an Agile board dialog.
  3. Select the Create a Scrum board option, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Select the way you want to create your board. There are three options to choose from, as follows...

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how to use Jira for Scrum. We looked at the Scrum board and how you can use it to organize your issue backlog, plan and run your sprint, and review and track its progress with reports and charts. Remember that the key elements to focus on for a successfully running sprint are consistency, review, and continuous improvement. It is fine if you find your estimates are incorrect, especially for the first few sprints; just make sure that you review, adjust, and improve.

Now that you have seen how to use a Scrum board, in the next chapter, we will look at how you can use Jira for Kanban.

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Key benefits

  • Plan and manage projects effortlessly with Jira Software by integrating it with other applications
  • Improve your team's performance with Scrum and Kanban, together with agile methodology
  • Easy-to-follow learning guide to install Jira Software and understand how it fits in with Atlassian Jira

Description

Jira Software is an agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, Kanban, or your own unique flavour. From agile boards to reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool. Jira Software brings the power of agile methodology to Atlassian Jira. This second edition of JIRA Agile Essentials, will help you dive straight into the action, exploring critical agile terminologies and concepts in the context of Jira Software. You will learn how to plan, track, and release great software. This book will teach you how to install and run Jira Software and set it up to run with Scrum and Kanban. It will also teach you to use Jira Software your way and run projects beyond the out-of-box Scrum and Kanban way, including a hybrid approach of both the methodologies and other options that come with Jira Software. Later, you will learn how to integrate it with the tools you are already using and enhance Jira with add-ons such as Confluence. You will learn to stay connected with your team from anywhere to ensure great development. Jira Software has numerous deployment options in the cloud, on your own infrastructure, or at a massive scale. You will be introduced to Bitbucket, Atlassian’s distributed version control system, which integrates seamlessly with Jira, allowing your team to work within the two applications as one harmonious environment. With this practical guide, you will develop a great working knowledge of Jira Software and your project management will become much more efficient.

Who is this book for?

If you want to get started with Jira Software and learn how to run your Jira projects the agile way, then this is the perfect book for you. You will need to be familiar with the basics of Jira, both from an end user's and an administrator's perspective. Experience with workflows, custom fields, and other administrative functions of Jira will be useful.

What you will learn

  • Understand the basics and agile methodologies of Jira software
  • Use Jira Software in a Scrum environment
  • Manage and run Jira Software projects beyond the out of box Scrum and Kanban way
  • Combine Scrum and Kanban and use other project management options beyond just agile
  • Customize Jira Software's various features and options as per your requirements
  • Work with Jira Agile offline, and plan and forecast projects with agile portfolio
  • Integrate Jira Agile with Confluence and Bitbucket

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Jira Software for Scrum Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Price is very high for mentioned content
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This is not a book intended to learn jira , it’s like a cliff note version times 1000. Def don’t recommend
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Be mindful that with some of these Kindle publications it can be hard to preview and get a real appreciation for what is to come. I've been reading for about 10 minutes and I'm about 20% of the way through 192 pages. Many of the pages are effectively 'blank' with a single paragraph that offers a short overview of the point and then, quite often, just links to external (and publicly-accessible sites.)And you wont' find much here that sets a context for Jira as a solution. This is designed for people wanting to transfer their experience to Atlassian Jira as a new solution. If you don't really understand Agile then you're going to need to supplement this with a further text. And that is OK - the book is about Jira but, realistically, just a few pages of introduction would add so much to the value of the remaining content.You'll (hopefully) find much better value elsewhere. This is just not worth grabbing. One of those books that makes me want a refund.
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Been trying to get a book that tells me everything I need to know about Jira. Gotta Keep looking, I guess.
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Software essential
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