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- Sprache: Englisch
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.
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Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints
Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints
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About the Author
Jaibeer Malik is an experienced programmer and Agile enthusiast with a passion for new technologies, clean code, and Agile development.
He has been working in the IT industry for nearly 10 years now with extensive experience in software designing, architecture, and development in domains varying from internet to telecom, to finance, oil, gas, and transport. He is involved in the development of both small and big enterprise applications that make a difference in the real world. He has good experience in technologies such as Java, J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, Wicket, Flex, Scala, ElasticSearch, and many other open source technologies.
He is a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and experienced in distributed Agile development. He regularly writes his thoughts in the form of blog posts on his personal website and on other technical forums.
He is currently located in Amsterdam, working as a Java Software Architect for one of the top e-commerce platforms in Netherlands.
To know more about the author visit the following links:
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I would like to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to all those who provided support, encouragement, and those who pushed me a little further.
About the Reviewer
David Jellison, Director of Quality Engineering at Constant Contact (Twitter: @ConstantContact), has 20 years of experience in quality and development management and test automation development. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and is currently leading Kanban initiatives in quality engineering, project management, and continuous delivery at Constant Contact. He has driven culture change and continuous improvement in Agile practices in three different SaaS organizations. Being passionate about efficiency in product delivery, he drives continuous improvements in test automation infrastructure, test design patterns, and Agile continuous integration practices. He administrates and designs workflows, and develops add-on plugins for Jira/Greenhopper. He spoke at the Atlassian Summit 2012 and StarWest 2012, and is a co-organizer of the Greater Boston Selenium Users Group. Follow Dave's blog at davidjellison.wordpress.com and his Twitter handle is @davidjellison.
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Preface
GreenHopper is an Agile Project Management tool built as add-on to Atlassian issue tracking system Jira. The rich interface of the tool allows you to focus on the work in hand and aims to achieve productivity.
It provides inbuilt support for Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. The inbuilt support for these processes makes the process adoption much easier. The flexible and customizable nature of Jira allows you to configure the tool to map to the hybrid Agile nature of the process, suiting your team requirements best.
It allows you to quickly and directly start with the backlog creation for your project. Suiting best to Scrum you can create Epic/Story/Technical task issues in a smooth and quicker way. You can prioritize your backlog items based on different business requirements. Managing prioritized backlog items and filtering capability allows you to work with both small and large backlogs.
It allows teams to estimate the backlog in an efficient and quick way. Teams can choose the estimate measurement criteria from various options. It allows planning the sprint and managing the sprint backlog efficiently. Daily sprint or Agile team tracking, transparency, and visibility have never been so easy as it is with the GreenHopper task boards. The rich interface of the task board makes it easy for team members to work on day-to-day technical tasks, prioritize items on task board well, update the task status, and so on.
The reporting functionality of GreenHopper gives enough information for any Agile project. The sprint Burndown charts, Epic reporting, and velocity charts allow you to track teams and backlogs over sprints. The control chart allows you to focus on improvements for your process. The cumulative flow diagram gives information related to how the whole backlog is moving ahead. The additional Jira reporting feature allows you to generate relevant reporting capability to your project.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Getting Started with GreenHopper, introduces the basic Agile concepts, Scrum terminology, prerequisites, installing GreenHopper, common glossary, and rich interface features.
Chapter 2, Planning Your Sprints with GreenHopper, allows creating a Jira project, Agile board, backlog items such as Epic, Story, and technical tasks, ranking the backlog items, and creating a sprint.
Chapter 3, Estimating and Time Tracking, helps to understand estimating and time tracking, estimating using Story points, business value, ideal hours, and Tempo plugin for time tracking.
Chapter 4, Using the Work Board to Update Issues, covers working with task board, adding columns, viewing issue details, updating issue status, ranking on task board, and using keyboard shortcuts.
Chapter 5, Using Quick Filters and Highlighting Issues, explains Jira filters for board, Quick Filters, Swimlanes, and using card colors for highlighting issues.
Chapter 6, Understanding the Burndown Chart, helps you to understand Burndown chart basics, typical Burndown charts, measurements units, and scope management.
Chapter 7, Ending a Sprint, covers completing a sprint, handling unfinished sprint backlog, sprint reporting, and completing an Epic.
Chapter 8, Project Reporting Using Charts, covers Agile project reporting, velocity charts, Epic reports, Control charts, and cumulative flow diagrams.
Chapter 9, Managing Kanban Team with GreenHopper, covers the Kanban system, creating a Kanban board, configuring task board columns, limiting work in progress using column constraints, creating swimlanes, ranking issues, and reporting for the Kanban team.
Appendix, Continuous Improvement, helps with the process improvements and GreenHopper tool integration points to achieve the same.
Who this book is for
The book is about managing Agile projects using the tooling system GreenHopper. It gives the brief overview of Agile process specifically Scrum and will explain step-by-step how different roles in an Agile tool can use the book in an Agile project. Any team member, project manager, product owner, Scrum master, Scrum team member (developer, designer, tester, and so on), or even the administrator can start using the tools for the project.
As a product owner or manager you will be able to plan the project. You will be able to create your project backlog, groom it over a period of time, and plan sprints tracking your milestones in the project. Using the tooling, you will be able to coordinate different team backlogs and different projects in a much smoother way.
As a Scrum master, you will be able to track and monitor the team using the tool. You will be able to work with product owners to manage and groom the backlog better and at the same time track how the team is doing using task board. Based on your situation and the dynamics of the team, you should be able to visualize the impediments better and respond to the m faster.
As a team member, you will be able to track your day-to-day tasks, clarifications, impediments, dependencies, and use your work hours in a much better way. The rightly configured and adopted tooling system will minimize the effort and overheads of using it.
Using the book, readers will be able to kick start with GreenHopper in a quicker way and will be able to utilize the system fast. Within a few steps, you will be able to get started with an Agile project.
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Chapter 1. Getting Started with GreenHopper
Software development is fundamentally different from other similar engineering areas. The Information Technology industry has come a long way in understanding this by learning, adopting, and improving different development methodologies.
This chapter will include the following:
Being Agile
Engineering methodologies are plan-based and very much predictive in nature. The disciplined and procedural nature of engineering methodologies makes the whole software development process a bit slow and inefficient. The outcome of this has been the development of Agile methodologies. The benefit of Agile methodologies is that they are more predictive in nature, more people-oriented, and they focus on the end outcome, rather than being bureaucratic in nature.
Based on
