Agile project management with GreenHopper 6 blueprints / Jaibeer Malik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malik, Jaibeer.

Series:

Safari tech books online.

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software--Development--Management.

Computer software.

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Malik Jaibeer: 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: Blog: http: //jaibeermalik. wordpress. com Twitter: http: //twitter. com/jaibeermalik LinkedIn: http: //www. linkedin. com/in/jaibeermalik

Summary:

A step-by-step tutorial-based approach.This book is of great help for agile teams who are already using or planning to use the GreenHopper tooling system to execute agile projects. It suits all roles in an agile project including system administrators, stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, and team members. Fundamental knowledge of JIRA is essential.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.packtpub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with GreenHopper; Being Agile; Agile flavours; Scrum; Scrum team; Scrum events; Scrum artifacts; Agile project management; Tooling system; GreenHopper; Prerequisites for GreenHopper; Installing GreenHopper; Accessing GreenHopper; Common uses and examples; GreenHopper glossary; GreenHopper interface features; Single view; Inline editing; Drag-and-drop; Quick filtering; Responsiveness; Highlighting; Flexible elements; Understandable; Intuitive

Target audiencesAgile project example; Project scenario; GreenHopper projects; Summary; Chapter 2: Planning Your Sprints with GreenHopper; Creating a project; Creating a board; Plan mode; Work mode; Report mode; Creating an Epic; Creating a Story; Creating subtasks; Ranking the backlog; Creating a Sprint; Summary; Chapter 3: Estimating and Time Tracking; Estimating; Time tracking; Estimating using GreenHopper; Story points; Original time estimate; Business value; Issue count; Estimating the backlog with Story points; Estimating the backlog with hours

Estimating the backlog with business valueEstimating the backlog with issue count; Time tracking with hours; Time tracking with Tempo plugin; Summary; Chapter 4: Using the Work Board to Update Issues; Understanding the task board; Scrum task board in GreenHopper; Using GreenHopper Simplified Workflow; Adding a column to the task board; Updating an issue status on the task board; Updating issue details on the task board; Using keyboard shortcuts on the task board; Ranking issues on the task board; Summary; Chapter 5: Using Quick Filters and Highlighting Issues

Working with filters for project backlogWorking with Quick Filters; Working with Swimlane; Queries; Stories; Assignees; No Swimlanes; Highlighting issues; Issue types; Priority; Assignees; Queries; Summary; Chapter 6: Understanding the Burndown Chart; Burndown chart; Typical Burndown charts; Ideal team ; Good or great team; Overloaded team; Not enough work; Less work committed; Scope change; Viewing the Burndown chart in GreenHopper; Burndown chart measurement units; Configuring working and non-working days; Time zone; Standard working days; Non-working days; Scope management for Sprint

SummaryChapter 7: Ending a Sprint; Completing a Sprint; Working with unfinished Sprint backlog; Viewing the Sprint report; Viewing the completed backlog; Completing an Epic; Summary; Chapter 8: Project Reporting Using Charts; Agile Project Reporting; Reporting in GreenHopper; Working with velocity chart; Working with epic report; Working with control chart; Working with a cumulative flow diagram; Summary; Chapter 9: Managing Kanban Team with GreenHopper; Kanban system; Push model versus Pull model; Kanban for software delivery and the services team; Maintenance team; Operations team

Infrastructure/Network team

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 24, 2013).

ISBN:

9781849699747

1849699747

OCLC:

857712667