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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA
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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

by David Harned
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
158 pages
3h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating and starting a sprint

In this section, we will cover the following topics:

  • The backlog view, which allows us to prioritize the stories, tasks, bugs, and the elements within them
  • Filtered views of the backlog
  • Creating sprints to use as containers for the work
  • Story point estimation
  • Sizing the team commitment
  • Adjustment to a sprint

Let's go to JIRA, and then to our FP project. This is the Backlog view, and we have some stories in the backlog, as shown in the following screenshot:

Backlog view

In the preceding screenshot, you can see four stories, a task, and a bug. We can prioritize these items by dragging and dropping them, and we ...

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ISBN: 9781789532135