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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA
Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA: Design and manage software projects using the Agile methodology

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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

Managing Work Items

In the previous chapter, we learned about what JIRA is, how to get started with it, and how to create a project in JIRA. In this chapter, we're going to learn about managing all of the work items that we have.

In this chapter, we'll be learning about epics, stories, bugs, and tasks; what each of these things are; and how we will use and create them in an agile project. Then, we're going to learn about issue type attributes. We're going to talk about adding and removing them, and making them fit the type of work that we're doing in JIRA. Then, we're going to learn about managing the items in our backlog, before learning about our board (those of us that do scrum are going to feel very comfortable with the board) and how to configure it.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

  • Introducing epics, stories, bugs...

Introducing epics, stories, bugs, and tasks

Epics, as you might imagine, are large stories. We want them to be able to be completed, so it's important that they have a distinct start and end, just like any story. We like to think of epics as something that would span multiple sprints, versus a story, which could be completed within a sprint. Epics are not groupings of work items, which is a common mistake that people make when organizing their work in the JIRA interface. We'll take a look at how to use components and labels to do this, instead of epics. Epics will contain stories, bugs, and tasks.

Stories are smaller than epics. Stories, bugs, and tasks are all on the same level hierarchically; they could all be prioritized against one another within our backlog to include in a sprint. Stories are also known as user stories, and they're called that because they...

Issue type attributes and adding and removing them

In this section, we're going to cover issue type attributes, how to add them, and how to remove them.

First, we're going to learn about what the different kinds of attributes are that can be assigned to stories, tasks, and bugs. Then, we're going to talk more about how we can customize them and adjust the screen so that we can only see the ones that we want to see.

The following are the attributes that are available to us:

  • Assignee: This is the person that is responsible for that item.
  • Attachments: These are anything that needs to be attached to that item to provide more clarity or show that it's been done.
  • Comments: These are used to add our views and feedback or to track progress against the work item.
  • Component/s: These are groupings, and are used to group items together within a project.
  • Description: This...

Managing items in the backlog

In this section, we're going to learn about managing the items in our backlog.

Here, we will learn about the following:

  • How to create items
  • How to prioritize items
  • How to assign items into epics and versions
  • How to create and use quick filters in our board view
  • Separating work that's fully refined and ready for a sprint

Let's go back to our backlog and view our work items. It's really easy to prioritize these items in JIRA. All we have to do is drag and drop them in the order we want. This makes it really easy for our product owners to just move all of this stuff around so that it's exactly how they think it should be in order to deliver the most value.

We made an epic previously, and as we can see in the following screenshot, we've got My Test Epic. We want to assign some items to this—maybe all of the newest...

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...

Summary

Let's talk about what we learned in this chapter. We talked about what epics, stories, bugs, and tasks are, how to use each of them, and why we use one versus the other. We learned about the different work item attributes that are available to us, then learned what they are, and how to add or remove them so that we can configure JIRA to meet the needs of our team. Then, we learned how to manage the items that are in our backlog using prioritization, assigning to epics and versions, and more. Finally, we talked about what a board is, how to configure that board so that the workflow matches our workflow, and how to effectively manage those items as they go through a sprint.

In the next chapter, we're going to go ahead and start our first sprint.

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  • Learn to create reports and dashboard for effective project management
  • Implement your development strategy in JIRA.
  • Practices to help you manage the issues in the development team

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As teams scale in size, project management can get very complicated. One of the best tools to deal with this kind of problem is JIRA. This book will start by organizing your project requirements and the principles of Agile development to get you started. You will then be introduced to set up a JIRA account and the JIRA ecosystem to help you implement a dashboard for your team's work and issues. You will learn how to manage any issues and bugs that might emerge in the development stage. Going ahead, the book will help you build reports and use them to plan the releases based on the study of the reports. Towards the end, you will come across working with the gathered data and create a dashboard that helps you track the project's development.

Who is this book for?

This book is for administrators who wants to apply the Agile approach to managing the issues, bugs, and releases in their software development projects using JIRA.

What you will learn

  • • Create your first project (and manage existing projects) in JIRA
  • • Manage your board view and backlogs in JIRA
  • • Run a Scrum Sprint project in JIRA
  • • Create reports (including topic-based reports)
  • • Forecast using versions
  • • Search for issues with JIRA Query Language (JQL)
  • • Execute bulk changes to issues
  • • Create custom filters, dashboards, and widgets
  • • Create epics, stories, bugs, and tasks
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I am an old-school programmer trying to get up-to-date with new methodology. This is an excellent start for me.
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David really breaks things down in a way that is easy to understand and apply. Grom the beginining to the end the clear consise language made it easy to follow for someone not as familiar as Jira. Super helpful and cannot say enough good things!THANKS David
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Great book for Scrummasters, Product Owners, and anyone else that wants to know more about what can be done with JIRA. I found the author articulate and thoughtful about choices he made in what to cover. I definitely would recommend reading this book as a quick start to get a JIRA project up and running or to put together some reports that help explain the team's outcomes.
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I used this book along with a free JIRA instance from Atlassian. Due to UI changes, some screenshots may be out of date or different. However, for someone familiar with Agile using another tool, it is easy to follow along and quickly learn JIRA. It's just not the book for a beginner to Agile.
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Easy to read, easy to understand, direct and succinct.Seems to be a clear description of the tool, however I suspect using it in anger may be way more complicated
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