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JIRA Agile Essentials: Bring the power of Agile to Atlassian JIRA and run your projects efficiently with Scrum and Kanban

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JIRA Agile Essentials

Chapter 2. JIRA Agile for Scrum

Scrum is one of the agile methodologies supported by JIRA Agile. Unlike the old days, when a project manager would use either a spreadsheet or Microsoft project to keep track of the project progress, with JIRA Agile 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 Agile 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 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

In any Scrum team, there are three primary roles. Although each role has its own specific functions and responsibilities, you need all three to work together as a cohesive team in order to be successful at Scrum.

The product owner

The product...

Creating a new Scrum board

The first step to start using JIRA Agile for Scrum is to create a Scrum board for your project. If you created your project by using the Agile Scrum project template, 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 Agile menu item from the top navigation bar and select the Manage 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:
    Creating a new Scrum board
  4. Select the way you want to create your board and click on the Next button. There are three options to choose from, as follows:
    • New project and a new board: This is the same as creating a project using the Scrum Agile project template. A new project will be created along...

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how to use JIRA Agile 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 keys 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 dive into the more advanced features of JIRA Agile and how you can customize your Scrum board to better suite your team's workflow.

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If you want to get started with JIRA Agile 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.

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1. JIRA Agile Basics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. JIRA Agile for Scrum Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Customizing the Scrum Board Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. JIRA Agile for Kanban Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. JIRA Agile – Advanced Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Good book but next time I will search for less expensive alternatives.
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The author has done a superb job in providing the content for the book. Packt Publishing as a whole is coming up with many such excellent books. This one is not worth missing out.
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This was a great overview of the agile capabilities that have been added to JIRA.Note that the book is very short: if you want a full practical example of a project from finish to end, this isn't the book for you.I was happy that it included the following: - Ranking and sorting - Quick overview of JQL filters - When to use Kanban or Agile boards - A pretty "whizz-bang" demo of the Agile Cards add-onIn short, a good overview that will get you up and running quickly.
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A gentle introduction to use Agile with Jira. Most of the information here is still relevant, although some of the functionaity that it states has to be added in is now standard.
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