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Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition
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Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

by Patrick Li
February 2019
Beginner
420 pages
10h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Running a project with Kanban

Now that we have seen how to run projects with Scrum, it is time to take a look at the other agile methodology Jira Software supports—Kanban. Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a much simpler methodology. Unlike Scrum, which has a backlog and requires the team to prioritize and plan their delivery in sprints, Kanban focuses purely on the execution and measurement of throughput.

In Jira, a typical Kanban board will have the following differences compared to a SCRUM board:

  • There is no backlog view by default. Since Kanban does not have a sprint-planning phase, your board acts as the backlog. We will see how to enable backlog for Kanban in later sections.
  • There are no active sprints. The idea behind Kanban is that you ...
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