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Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints
About this book
In Detail
Agile methodologies like Scrum focus on customer values in an incremental way. Regular planning, tracking, reporting, and improving can become equally challenging from a project management perspective. GreenHopper is a tooling support for JIRA that offers easy adoption of agile practices through rich interfaces for effective team collaboration and project management.
Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints is a step-by-step guide that teaches you how to manage agile projects using the GreenHopper tooling system. With easy adoption using pre-sets for Scrum & Kanban, the rich interface focuses on the work at hand, increasing team productivity. Executing sprints, tracking sprints, and reporting on agile projects has never been so easy. The integration with different development environments helps teams to focus on collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement. This book covers agile project management concepts using GreenHopper.
You will learn about backlog management for your agile team, how to create projects and boards for your agile team, and how to create new backlog items, prioritize items, estimate backlog items, create sprints, and update technical task status and report on the same.
You will learn everything you need to know about managing an agile project using GreenHopper and how to achieve the best value for your team.
Approach
A step-by-step tutorial-based approach.
Who this book is for
This book is of great help for agile teams who are already using or planning to use the GreenHopper tooling system to execute agile projects. It suits all roles in an agile project including system administrators, stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, and team members. Fundamental knowledge of JIRA is essential.
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Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints
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Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints
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Preface
What this book covers
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started with GreenHopper
Being Agile
Agile flavors
Scrum
Scrum team
Scrum events
Scrum artifacts
Agile project management
Tooling system
GreenHopper
Prerequisites for GreenHopper
Installing GreenHopper
Accessing GreenHopper
Common uses and examples
GreenHopper glossary
GreenHopper interface features
Single view
Inline editing
Drag-and-drop
Quick filtering
Responsiveness
Highlighting
Flexible elements
Understandable
Intuitive
Target audiences
Agile project example
Project scenario
GreenHopper projects
Summary
2. Planning Your Sprints with GreenHopper
Creating a project
Creating a board
Plan mode
Work mode
Report mode
Creating an Epic
Creating a Story
Creating subtasks
Ranking the backlog
Creating a Sprint
Summary
3. Estimating and Time Tracking
Estimating
Time tracking
Estimating using GreenHopper
Story points
Original time estimate
Business value
Issue count
Estimating the backlog with Story points
Estimating the backlog with hours
Estimating the backlog with business value
Estimating the backlog with issue count
Time tracking with hours
Time tracking with Tempo plugin
Summary
4. Using the Work Board to Update Issues
Understanding the task board
Scrum task board in GreenHopper
Using GreenHopper Simplified Workflow
Adding a column to the task board
Updating an issue status on the task board
Updating issue details on the task board
Using keyboard shortcuts on the task board
Ranking issues on the task board
Summary
5. Using Quick Filters and Highlighting Issues
Working with filters for project backlog
Working with Quick Filters
Working with Swimlane
Queries
Stories
Assignees
No Swimlanes
Highlighting issues
Issue types
Priority
Assignees
Queries
Summary
6. Understanding the Burndown Chart
Burndown chart
Typical Burndown charts
Ideal team
Good or great team
Overloaded team
Not enough work
Less work committed
Scope change
Viewing the Burndown chart in GreenHopper
Burndown chart measurement units
Configuring working and non-working days
Time zone
Standard working days
Non-working days
Scope management for Sprint
Summary
7. Ending a Sprint
Completing a Sprint
Working with unfinished Sprint backlog
Viewing the Sprint report
Viewing the completed backlog
Completing an Epic
Summary
8. Project Reporting Using Charts
Agile Project Reporting
Reporting in GreenHopper
Working with velocity chart
Working with epic report
Working with control chart
Working with a cumulative flow diagram
Summary
9. Managing Kanban Team with GreenHopper
Kanban system
Push model versus Pull model
Kanban for software delivery and the services team
Maintenance team
Operations team
Infrastructure/Network team
Services/Support team
Creating a Kanban board in GreenHopper
Configuring columns and limiting work in progress
Creating Swimlane for Kanban team
Ranking issues on the Kanban work board
Reporting for the Kanban team
Cumulative Flow Diagram
Control chart
Summary
A. Continuous Improvement
Retrospective
Knowledge sharing
Process improvements
Wiki integration
Testing collaboration
Team communication
Continuous integration
Technical debt
Code review
Reporting and dashboard
Notifications
IDE integration
Plugins
Index
Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints
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