Archives for the tag: scrum

What are people saying about GreenHopper 6.2?

For a week now product owners everywhere have been taking advantage of all the exciting new reporting features in GreenHopper 6.2. Not only can you track progress toward large feature work spanning multiple sprints, but you'll gain confidence over release dates and broadcast details to everyone on the team with your JIRA dashboard. What's the word on the street?   Hey @greenhopperteam, version report from a live @unbounce project with notes. So useful, thx! #agile twitter.com/carl_schmidt/s… —

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Improving Agile Estimation via Triangulation

Yves Riel has been exploring Scrum by participating as a team member, a Scrum Master and a Product Owner. He also acts as a Scrum Coach to help teams learn the Scrum methodology. Yves has actively been using JIRA and GreenHopper since 2009. Benjamin Franklin once said that there were two certainties in this world: death and taxes. I suspect that if Benjamin Franklin had been in the software industry, he would have added “estimation” to the lot. Although there are some heated debates on the

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Tame an unruly backlog with GreenHopper 6.1 – Available Today

Enterprise Admins - Be sure to check out the Scaling GreenHopper guide. Product owners are occasionally struck with awe at just how large their product backlog has grown. The GreenHopper team has been exploring this problem and we’re happy to announce a solution – Epics, your key to taming a growing backlog. Try GreenHopper 6.1 Today 'When will we ship?' Product owners are often asked how much more work is needed until a feature is ready to ship. A big feature can be represented

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Having trouble with scope change? Here’s a tip.

I was just writing a response to a question posed on a GreenHopper documentation page. It is worth sharing more broadly as I've seen similar queries a few times recently. The fact that I can drag and drop inside a sprint, from one unstarted sprint to another, from one unstarted to start sprint, but not out of a started sprint is extraordinarily frustrating. Right now for each issue I want to move, I am forced into a baffling 5-click process. JIRA seems to follow a pattern of design decisions that

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Get fancy with card colours in GreenHopper

A neat feature in GreenHopper is the ability to colour cards based upon JQL. Over the past two days I've visited two great customers and each of them came up with a novel way to use the card colours in their environment. I wanted to share them ASAP so you can start using them Monday morning. It's Friday 651pm in San Francisco and I'm about go watch the Sydney Swans win the AFL Grand Final at the pub - this is so cool it couldn't wait until Monday. Anyways... Twitter The cool folks at Twitter

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Agile Q&A – GreenHopper Time Estimates with Sub-Tasks

This blog post is an edited excerpt of an Atlassian Answers question posted by Brad Albrecht. GreenHopper Product Manager Shaun Clowes responds with a detailed response to Brad's post. Brad's Question I have recently transitioned my projects over to a Scrum board with the latest GreenHopper updates.  I use time for estimates so when I am building a sprint, I can see how long the estimated issues are going to take, and keep it under 2 weeks per dev. Some of the issues already have

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