Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

Smaller stories and tasks

In this section, we'll discuss whether we should have smaller stories or tasks, and how we should organize our work in the most effective way for our team.

In the previous sections, we set up our sprint and started it, and we looked at how we can use JIRA within a daily Scrum. Now, we'll discuss the work itself. What is the best way for the work to be structured in JIRA? Should we have one story per person? Should we use sub-tasks under a story to make things more specific?

The answers depend on different factors, which is one of the things that makes this so challenging. It depends on the team; it depends on how we work; and there are some key things that we need to be thinking about as we're structuring our work. ...