Story mapping is an essential practice for every agile team. The benefits include: Shared Understanding Through Collaboration: allows distributed teams to conduct collaborative story mapping sessions in real-time by creating simple and elegant story maps alongside JIRA Software agile boards Focus on ...
Jira Align (JA) and Azure DevOps (ADO) Solution For example you want to map a work item of type 'issue' from ADO so that it can be mapped as a story in JA. The steps in JA are: Go to "Platform Settings-> Dropdown" Create a story type with a custom val...
I've met several teams which started using story maps in JIRA for improving the product design process. Finally they realized, it isn't just about a different way to plan, it's a better way to manage the whole dev process. Why did they reach this conclusion? Because product owners ...
An inside look into secrets of agile estimation and story points. Good agile estimation lets product owners optimize for efficiency and impact.
Most teams estimate usingstory points.Story points measure the complexity of one issue relative to others. This makes sense because the main questions to be answered are 'How much work can we realistically commit to completing this sprint?' and 'How long will this part of the backlog take to...
Option #1: use Jira Cloud PremiumThe first workaround is to use Jira Cloud Premium. Once you've upgraded, you can start creating levels above epics, leading to a feature > epic > story hierarchy.Here are the changes you'll see: Tasks that were once stories become epics. Epics turn into...
Automation for Jira does not have native support for configuring the Jira fields "Target Start" and "Target End". When selecting "choose fields to set..." in anEdit issueaction, for example, the fields are not present in the drop down. ...
Story points in Agile: What they are and how to use them This article was originally published in July 2019. The most recent update was in September 2023 with contributions from Jessica Lau. Get productivity tips delivered straight to your inbox ...
Better estimations: Since story points are relative to each other, teams can use past Agile tasks as benchmarks for future estimations and drive better resource allocation. Achievable deadlines: When teams have a clear understanding of the relative size of their tasks, they can set more realisti...
Jira Key Points & Getting Started Advice Jira – Other Features Jira Wrap Up What is Jira? Jira is widely used by IT specialists, although other types of businesses can also engage the software. In fact, over 50% of Jira’s customers use the software for non-IT projects!