#1 Agile Software Development Tool : JIRA
Have you ever heard of JIRA? If not, let me briefly explain how a tool can change your life and your firm’s efficiency in terms of planning, organizing tasks and getting the them done.
JIRA Software is an agile project management tool that helps your team to plan, track, release and report the work you have whether you work with Scrum or Kanban methodology. All you need is to pick a framework and start creating Boards including specific team members, for specific subjects under which you can list your tasks to be done.
You can create and manage the progress of your tasks. You have given a variety of features to do this : Prioritization, labeling, tagging, commenting, filtering, mentioning the relevant person, approving, rejecting and many more..
Every team has a unique process for shipping software. JIRA provides an out-of-the-box workflow which supports the team to work with “Agile” business approach effectively. After your task is taken in development you are able to watch the progress and at which stage your task is. Teams have access to more than a dozen of reports real-time and options to export visual data, so see actionable insights to assess team’s sprint performance. So, at the end of the time intervals of choice , you can measure the task development processes’ performance of your team and can take relevant actions to improve if you find it necessary.
Creating Tasks are so easy in JIRA. You just have to come to the board in which you want to create a task in, you write the description and specify the Due Date you want the task to be done. You can easily assign the Task to someone specific or leave the team responsible to decide who will be assigned to the task. As easy it seems, JIRA is not very easy to implement and to use at a second. Teams and firms need to learn the tool with it’s features, details, shortcuts, basically the team needs to learn how to speak JIRA language and make sure you to use it efficiently.
Agile work flow suggests JIRA tool to be used in Kanban or Scrum-ban methods. And in these systems it is always good to have one person responsible to keep track of the processes which we call Kanban/Scrum Master. This person’s full-time will be allocated to prioritize, move forward, plan the pipeline, keep the track of task development all the way till they are done and get out of the pipeline.
JIRA also has a mobile app to make it easy to keep track of the tasks while you have no access to your laptop and makes you eligible to your business regardless of the space. I say , you try to implement it in your business, believe me you will see the benefit of it !
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