Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

The daily scrum

Now, we have a sprint running. In this section, we'll discuss the daily scrum.

In this section, you'll learn about the following topics:

• How to use JIRA daily, as we're moving through a sprint
• How to use the board and burndown points or hours
• How to know whether sprint is on or off track

During a sprint, we want to use JIRA to move sprint work items through a workflow. We have our board with the columns on it—To Do, In Progress, and Done. We want to use JIRA to make sure that we're on track, because if we're doing a two-week sprint, we want to know as soon as possible whether we're on track, so that we can make adjustments in real time. We need to be able to generate data that we're going to need for reports at the end of ...