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

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David Harned is a PMO director for Monotype and is a motivated and inspired leader of Agile thinkers. He is a design, usability, and customer experience advocate. David is an Agile believer and uses Scrum, Kanban, and Lean as well as hybrid approaches for project management. He holds many certifications in the project management and Agile domains, including PMI Project Management Professional, Digital Project Manager, Certified ScrumMaster, and more.

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JIRA software is an Agile project management tool that supports any Agile methodology. From Agile boards to reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your Agile software development projects with a single tool. With this book, you will learn to explore critical Agile terminologies and concepts in the context of JIRA Software.

If you want to get started with JIRA software and learn how to run your JIRA projects the Agile way, this is the perfect book for you.

, Get Started with Creating Your Project , is about getting started with creating your project. We'll talk about how projects help you to keep your work organized and learn why JIRA is so popular and where it came from. We'll also talk about creating an account with Atlassian so that you can get started using JIRA on the cloud. We'll look into the projects themselves and how we use a project to organize all work items. We'll then look into the screens, workflows, and permissions, which will allow us to customize our project, and the views, notifications, and permissions that go along with it.

, Managing Work Items , is all about the difference between epics, stories, bugs, and tasks, learning what the different types of issues are, and why we would use each one. We'll talk about the attributes for those issues, learning what these different work item attributes are and how to customize them to fit your needs. We'll also cover managing items in the work, in the backlog, so that all that stuff will be a backlog in JIRA, and we'll talk about how to define, prioritize, and refine it. Then, we'll talk about creating and configuring a board, and how you would do that. If you're familiar with Scrum, you know what I mean by a Scrum board.

, Running Your Project in JIRA , is about running the project. We'll create and start a Sprint. We'll use our backlog to refine the work and then plan and begin the Sprint iteration. We'll also look at the daily Scrum and how we use JIRA to keep the team aligned, and how to know whether we're on track to meet our commitments. We'll focus on the differences between smaller stories or tasks, and when do we use each one, and then we'll talk about how to close a Sprint, and learn how to end that Sprint, and what to do with any work that hasn't been completed.

, Working with Reports , explores all about versions and releaseswhat they are and how they're different from each other. We'll talk about burndowns, about Sprint reports, and how to read those to determine whether or not your team is doing well. We'll also take a look at velocity charts, which we can use to determine the performance of the team. We will take a look at releasing epic burndowns, as well as versions and epic reports, which give you the ability to do forecasting, which is very powerful.