Scrum Development with JIRA & JIRA Agile

The Basics


By scmGalaxy.com

About Me

DevOps@RajeshKumar.XYZ

Course Introduction

Who This Course is For

Who This Course is For -jira

Course Overview

  • Concepts
    • Agile Development & Scrum
    • JIRA & JIRA Agile
  • Getting Started
    • What do you need?
    • Your project
  • Sprint Planning & Spring Retrospective
    • Get the ball rolling… over and over again (successfully!)
    • Epics, stories and tasks & estimates
    • Improving your process

Course Overview

  • Scrum & Sprints
    • Keeping your Project Moving and Under Control
    • BurndownChart & Velocity
  • Conclusion & Extensibility
    • Let’s wrap up
    • What if I need something that is not available?

Scrum Development with JIRA & JIRA AgileConcepts

Agile Development

“Agile software developmentis a group ofsoftware development methodsbased oniterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing,cross-functional teams”

Scrum

  • Iterative and incremental Agile framework
  • Managing software projects and product/application dev
  • Focus
    • "a flexible, holistic product development strategy where a development team works as a unit to reach a common goal“

      • vs.

    • “Traditional, sequential approach“
  • Key principle
    • Recognize that requirements can change
  • JIRA can help us

JIRA Agile for Scrum

  • Issue tracker & extensible platform
  • Prioritize, assign, track, report & audit your tasks (issues)
  • Projects
  • Components
  • Versions (milestones)
  • Issues
  • Issue types
  • Subtasks
  • And more…

JIRA Agile for Scrum

Who This Course is For -jira

User Stories, Epics and Themes

  • Theme
    • Top level objective that spans products/projects
  • User story
    • Short description of a functionality
    • INVEST: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimatable, Small, Testable requirement
  • Epic
    • Collection of stories in the roadmap
  • Task
    • Punctual to do or action item

Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team Member

  • Product Owner
    • Final authority on requirements
    • Prioritize backlog and provide clear requirements
  • Team members
    • Cross functional, autonomous, self organizing
    • Project manager, developer, tester, Swiss Army Knife, CTM, TOC
  • Scrum master
    • Facilitator, negotiator, responsible for guiding team
    • Removes impediments or finds someone that can

Product Backlog

  • Feature list → User stories
  • Features, bugs, technical work, information, …
  • Not required to be complete at the beginning
  • Prioritized for the…

Sprint Planning Meeting

  • Committed parties involved
    • Product owner, team members
  • Other parties can attend as listeners
  • PO describes highest priorities
  • Detailed tasks created and assigned
  • Objectives:
    • Sprint goal
    • Sprint backlog
  • Looking ahead recommended

Daily Scrum

  • Moderated by scrum master
  • 15 min, time boxed, usually in the morning/same location
  • Every attendee
    • What did you do yesterday?
    • What will you do today?
    • Is there any impediment on your way?
  • Scrum master helps remove impediments
    • Or find someone who will
  • State of affairs

BurndownChart & Velocity

  • Burndownchart
    • Graphical representation of work pending vs. time left
    • Are you going to make it?
  • Velocity
    • Amount of work per particular sprint
    • Helpful in planning upcoming sprints
    • Dynamic

Sprint Retrospective

  • Objective: determine ways to improve at end of sprint
  • Suggestion: (What should we…)
    • Start doing?
    • Stop doing?
    • Continue doing?
  • Prioritize
  • Work on improving

Sprint Retrospective

sprint retrospective For jira

Sprint Review

  • Goal: Ship Ready State!
    • Scrum → Deliver Potentially Shippable Product
  • Hold a meeting to present the outcome
  • Typically a demo
  • Assessed towards the sprint goal

Sprint Review

sprint Review For jira

JIRA Agile

  • JIRA’s way of Agile project management
  • Scrum
    • Create and estimate stories, build and prioritize backlog, team commitment, velocity, …
  • Based on 3 boards:
    • Planning Board
    • Task Board
    • Chart Board
  • Details soon!

Scrum Development with JIRA & JIRA Agile
Getting Started

Getting Started With Scrum and JIRA

Getting Started With Scrum and JIRA

Welcome to your project!

Welcome to your project!for JIRA

The Boards

  • New boards!
  • Plan
    • Plan sprints
    • Start Sprint to move it into Work mode
  • Work
    • Transition issues through multiple statuses
  • Report
    • Monitor progress
      • Reports are board specific
    • BurndownChart, Control Chart, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Epic Report, Sprint Report, Velocity Report, Version Report

Plan Mode

Plan Mode for JIRA

Work Mode

Work Mode for JIRA

Report Mode

Report Mode for JIRA

Create Your Own Board

Create Your Own Board for JIRA

Classic Boards

  • Not actively developed
  • Not recommended for new projects
  • Use the new boards!

Classic Boards

Classic-boards for JIRA

Project Overview & Administration

  • Overview
    • Issues, Agile, Reports, Popular Issues, Labels
  • Administration
    • Issue Types, Versions, Workflows, Components, Roles, Screens, Permissions, Notifications, Fields, Development Tools, Settings, …

Project Overview & Administration

Project Overview & Administration for JIRA

Creating the backlog…

Backlog

  • Backlog ready?
  • Next step? Plan!

Backlog

Backlogfor JIRA

Scrum Development with JIRA & JIRA Agile
Sprint Planning & Sprint Retrospective

Sprint Planning Meeting

  • Use Plan Mode
  • Describe highest priorities on beginning of Sprint
  • Create detailed tasks, estimate and assign
  • Artifacts: sprint goal and sprint backlog

Sprint Planning Meeting

Sprint Planning Meeting for JIRA

In Plan Mode You Can...

  • Prioritiseyour backlog
  • Create sub tasks from stories
  • Estimate, assign and rank
  • Logically group into epics
  • Add to sprints
  • Start a sprint
  • Come back to do more planning

    • Let’s take a look...
Sprint Planning Meeting for JIRA

Rules of Common Sense

  • Scope creep
    • Avoid or at least control
    • Realistic expectations
  • Golden triangle!
 Rules of Common Sense for JIRA

Sprint Retrospective Meeting

  • Start-Stop-Continue approach
  • Use the Sprint Report
  • Define how you will improve next sprint
 Sprint Retrospective Meeting for JIRA

Sprint Review

  • Usually does not involve JIRA
  • Demo mode
  • Break a leg!

Summary

  • Sprint Planning Meeting gets you started
    • Assign, track, estimate, rank
    • Commit to a body of work
    • Get people working!
  • Sprint Retrospective
    • Think of it as auditing your own process
    • Check if you improved what you committed to in previous retrospective
    • Start-Stop-Continue
    • Commit to improving
  • Sprint Review
    • Dog & Pony!
    • Show your work

Scrum Development with JIRA & JIRA Agile Scrum & Sprints

Daily Scrum

  • Time box, same time/place, usually morning and really standing up!
  • Use Work Mode
  • Visualize
    • What did you do yesterday?
    • What will you do today?
    • Is there any impediment on your way?

Daily Scrum

Sprint Planning Meeting for JIRA

In Work Mode You Can...

  • Use it during Scrum
  • Work on Issues
    • Transition & Edit
  • Release a version and more...

In Work Mode You Can...

In Work Mode You Can for JIRA

Report Mode

  • Visualize and control project progress
  • Reports are board specific
  • Available Scrum boards only
    • BurndownChart, Epic Report, Sprint Report, Velocity Chart, Version Report
  • General availability
    • Control Chart, Cumulative Flow Diagram

Report Mode

Report Mode of JIRA

Burndown Chart

  • Actual vs. Estimated amount of work for a sprint
  • X axis → time
  • Y axis → issues
  • Objective: determine in advance the possibility of finishing on time
    • Monitor constantly

Burndown Chart

Burndown Chart of JIRA

Sprint Report

  • List of issues for each Sprint
  • Useful for the Sprint Retrospective meeting and mid checks
  • Shows information on initial team commitment

Sprint Report

Sprint Report of JIRA

Epic Report

  • Useful for Epics as they may span multiple Sprints
  • List of complete, incomplete and unestimatedissues in an Epic
  • Understand progress towards completing an epic over time

Epic Report

Epic Report of JIRA

Version Report

  • Team’s progress towards completion of a Version
  • Predicted Release Date
    • Based on average rate of progress (Velocity) since start of version
    • Estimated amount of work remaining

Version Report

Version Report of JIRA

Velocity Chart

  • Amount of value delivered in each sprint in Story points
    • Helps you predict amount of work for future Sprints
  • Useful during Sprint Planning meeting
  • Recorded at the time of Sprint start
    • Changes are not reflected

Velocity Chart

Velocity Chart of JIRA

Control Chart

  • Shows “cycle time” or “lead time” for your issues
    • Cycle: from start progress to work completed
    • Lead: from issue logged until work completed
  • Can current sprint data be used to estimate future performance?
    • Less variation in cycle time means higher confidence in using an average as metric of future performance

Control Chart

Control Chart of JIRA

Cumulative Flow Diagram

  • Area chart that shows Status over time
    • Each color is a status
  • i.e. How many issues in progress on a daily basis
  • Widening area → Bottleneck!

Cumulative Flow Diagram

Cumulative Flow Diagram for JIRA

Gadgets

  • Dashboards are a very powerful feature of JIRA
  • Collection of add-ons plus Agile and Classic Agile gadgets
    • Provide status and overview of all sorts of KPI
  • Build dashboard specifically to suit your needs

Gadgets

Gadgets for JIRA

Additional JIRA Reports

  • JIRA provides non Agile specific reports
  • Available from Project Overview > Reports
  • Useful information to keep your project under control

Additional JIRA Reports

Additional JIRA Reports

Average Age Report

Average Age Report For jira

Created vs. Resolved Issues Report

Created vs. Resolved Issues Report For jira

Pie Chart Report

Pie Chart Report For jira

Recently Created Issues Report

Recently Created Issues Report For jira

Resolution Time Report

Resolution Time Report For jira

Single Level Group By Report

Single Level Group By Report For jira

Time Sheet Report

  • Hours not used in Agile, only Story points
Time Sheet Report For jira

Time Since Issues Report

Time Since Issues Report For jira

Time Tracking Report

  • Hours not used in Agile, only Story points
Time Tracking Report For jira

User Workload Report

  • Hours not used in Agile, only Story points
User Workload Report For jira

Version Workload Report

  • Hours not used in Agile, only Story points
Version Workload Report For jira

Workload Pie Chart Report

  • Hours not used in Agile, only Story points
Workload Pie Chart Report For jira

Create Your Own Reports

  • Create any report you can think of (and JQL-it!)
  • Create a filter
  • Create a dashboard
  • Add one of the Gadgets
  • Get the info you need!
 Create Your Own Reports for JIRA

About Reporting

  • JIRA Agile provides vast information in Report Mode
  • Also available JIRA’s OOTB reports
  • Create your own reports

About Reporting

About Reporting For Jira

Scrum Development with JIRA & JIRA Agile Conclusion

JIRA Agile for Agile Scrum Development

  • Manage your Agile Scrum Project
  • Using JIRA Agile as your ally
  • Manage your project vs. letting your project manage you
    • Firefighter mode –avoid like the plague
    • “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail”

Project

  • Start by creating your project in JIRA
  • Select type Agile Scrum

Project

Project for JIRA

The Team

  • Committed
    • Product Owner
    • Scrum Master
    • Team Members
  • Involved
    • Stakeholders
    • Customers
    • Executive team
 The Team for JIRA

Requirements: User Stories and Epics


  • Create your backlog

Sprint Planning Meeting

  • Prioritize, estimate and create sub tasks (every sprint…)
  • Sprint goal
  • Commit

Sprint Planning Meeting

Sprint Planning Meeting of JIRA

Daily Scrum

  • Time boxed 15 minutes
  • Communication & collaboration meeting
  • Scrum master moderates and removes impediments
  • Every attendee
    • What did you do yesterday?
    • What will you do today?
    • Is there any impediment on your way?
 The Daily Scrum of JIRA

Sprint Retrospective

  • Once Sprint is complete
  • Suggestion: (What should we…)
    • Start doing?
    • Stop doing?
    • Continue doing?
  • Prioritize, vote, act
 The Sprint Retrospective of JIRA

Reports

  • Help you understand state of affairs
  • Multiple JIRA Agile reports
  • JIRA general reports
  • Build your own report

Reports

Reports For jira

Sprint Review

  • Dog & Pony
  • Break a leg!
  • Show what you’ve done

Multiple Teams –Same Project

  • You may want to manage several teams in a single project
  • Use Parallel Sprints
  • Currently part of JIRA Agile labs
    • May disappear or change

Multiple Teams –Same Project

Multiple Teams –Same Project For jira

Issues Not Shown in Columns

  • A status not mapped is an issue not shown
  • This is an easy to make mistake

Issues Not Shown in Columns

Issues Not Shown in Columns For jira

Completing Sprint With Unfinished Subtask

  • Cannot complete a sprint if a sub task is open but the parent task is resolved
  • I usually convert subtask to task
    • Other people reopen parent and move everything to next sprint
  • And the complete sprint

Completing Sprint With Unfinished Subtask

Completing Sprint With Unfinished Subtask For jira

Sub-tasks Not Visible in Plan Mode

  • They are not visible
  • No way around it at this point

Sub-tasks Not Visible in Plan Mode

Sub-tasks Not Visible in Plan Mode For jira

JIRA Agile Configuration

  • JIRA Agile Configuration, Project Templates, Enabled Projects
    • Used for configuration of Classic Boards
    • Use the new ones

JIRA Agile Configuration

JIRA Agile Configuration

Epic Migration

  • Migrate old Epics (Greenhopper) to new Epics
  • Once you migrate, old epics are not synchronized

Epic Migration

Sub-tasks Not Visible in Plan Mode For jira

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Be efficient! Learn the shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts For jira

Marketplace

  • Don’t reinvent the wheel
  • Somebody might have already created what you need

Marketplace

Marketplace For jira

Remote API

  • If not available or you want to build it yourself?
  • Remote API →Suggest REST
    • Deprecated options also available

Remote API

Remote API For jira

Plugin Framework

  • Want to build your own add-on?
  • You can also post it to the Marketplace!

Plugin Framework

Plugin Framework For jira

JIRA Source Code

  • Commercial users receive access to JIRA’s source code
  • Change, customize and redeploy

JIRA Source Code

JIRA Source Code

Questions?

docker-questions

The End

  • Thanks for your time!
  • Happy scrumming
  • May your project be successful!

Thank You!