JIRA Agile Essentials
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JIRA Agile Essentials

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Year
2015
ISBN
9781784394912
Edition
1

JIRA Agile Essentials


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JIRA Agile Essentials
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
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1. JIRA Agile Basics
Introducing JIRA Agile
Installing JIRA Agile
Manually installing JIRA Agile
Understanding JIRA and JIRA Agile
The agile board
Card
Issues and issue types
Filters and JQL
Workflows
Using JIRA Agile project templates
Summary
2. JIRA Agile for Scrum
Scrum
Roles in Scrum
The product owner
The Scrum master
The delivery team
Understanding the Scrum process
Creating a new Scrum board
Understanding the Scrum board
Creating new issues
Creating new epics
Estimating your work
Ranking and prioritizing your issues
Creating new versions
Planning sprints
Starting a sprint
Working on a sprint
Completing a sprint
Reporting a sprint's progress
The sprint report
The burndown chart
The velocity chart
Summary
3. Customizing the Scrum Board
Managing your board
Enabling ranking
The active sprint mode
Working with columns
JIRA Agile and workflows
Creating new columns
Setting up column layout
Setting up column constraint
Working with swimlanes
Setting up swimlanes
Using quick filters
Creating new quick filters
Summary
4. JIRA Agile for Kanban
Kanban
Understanding the Kanban board
Creating a new Kanban board
Customizing your Kanban board
Visualizing workflows with Kanban
Setting up column constraints
Controlling what issues to show on the board
Organizing your Kanban board with swimlanes
Creating custom views with quick filters
Releasing a version in Kanban
Improving your team's performance
Improving the process with charts and reports
Cumulative flow diagram
Control chart
Customizing the control chart
Summary
5. JIRA Agile – Advanced
Customizing Agile Cards
Customizing card color
Customizing card layout
Customizing the card details view
Running parallel sprints with Scrum
Displaying JIRA Agile reports
Using the JIRA dashboard
Using wallboard
Integrating JIRA Agile with Confluence
Setting up an application link with Confluence
Creating Confluence pages from epics
Creating user stories from Confluence
Planning your sprints with Team Calendar
Capturing sprint meeting notes
Creating retrospective reports
Displaying your project in Confluence
Working with JIRA Agile offline
Summary
Index

JIRA Agile Essentials

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Patrick Li
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About the Author

Patrick Li is a cofounder and senior engineer at AppFusions. AppFusions is an expert company that develops and packages integrated solutions for many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Atlassian, Google Apps, Box, Dropbox, and more.
He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 8 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He is one of the top contributors to the Atlassian community, providing answers and advice on forums such as Atlassian Answers and Quora.
He has extensive experience in the design and deployment of Atlassian solutions from the ground up, and customizing existing deployments for clients across vertical markets, such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.

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