User stories are essential to agile development, as they help teams prioritize user needs and experiences, putting the human element first. This comprehensive guide to Jira's user story features provides tips and best practices to help you make the most out of this powerful tool. 

The journey towards achieving enterprise agility can be likened to a long, winding mountain road that is neither easy nor straightforward. Attempting to take shortcuts along the way can lead to being lost, but with a map and a skilled navigator, reaching the destination is assured. This white paper aims to provide that map, offering a clear description of the Five Phases of Enterprise Agility, which include the Agile Team, the Team of Agile Teams, the Scaling Agile Organization, the Agile Enterprise, and the Scaling Agile Enterprise.

This white paper discusses the increasing adoption of DevOps in the public sector as government agencies recognize its benefits in improving software development speed and efficiency. It highlights the challenges of implementing new processes in this highly regulated sector and offers a guide to help overcome these challenges. 

Mocking, a technique that involves creating simulated environments to mimic service behavior, offers opportunities for developers and testers to ensure high quality throughout the software development lifecycle. In this ebook, you'll learn that by leveraging mocking, teams can establish sandbox environments and effectively simulate service behaviors, contributing to the overall quality of the developed applications. 

In this webinar, Thad West, CEO of Isos Technology, discusses the evolution of DevOps with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) experts. The webinar covers the evolution of DevOps roles and responsibilities within an organization, key performance metrics for Site Reliability Engineering, SLO quality gates, and the importance of both "shift left" and "shift right" approaches to DevOps. 

Learn about Opsgenie's features and how to improve operational efficiency with the platform through a comprehensive introduction. The webinar also covers how to transition from PagerDuty to Opsgenie with things like exporting your data, setting up integrations with existing tools, and configuring on-call schedules and escalation policies in Opsgenie.

Agile Project Management is an iterative and incremental approach to software development projects supported by a cross-functional team. It allows for flexibility and frequent delivery of product iterations, and enables teams to respond to changes quickly. Agile follows a framework, with detailed project planning and estimation for each sprint before execution. Accurate estimation is important for planning and managing the effort to deliver a new feature or product.  This extensive article covers four methods for estimating work: Planning Poker, Asynchronous, Relative Estimation, and Bucket Sizing, with explanations on how to use each approach.

In this webinar, Adaptavist's experts, Matthew Stublefield and Ryan Spilken, share time-saving tips for efficient Jira management. This webinar is suitable for Jira users of all experience levels and will provide practical examples to enhance efficiency, including tips on project setup, training, and automation. 

This white paper helps with understanding what successful continuous delivery and continuous deployment look like. Takeaways include discovering the benefits of CI/CD for your organization, understanding the business challenges it can solve, gaining an overview of successful CI/CD implementation, and learning how to measure its success.

The Kanban method, originally developed by Toyota Motors in the 1950s, has proven to be a robust set of tools for streamlining and optimizing work within various industries. However, due to its flexibility, many organizations struggle to apply its principles and practices effectively. This white paper aims to enhance organizations' ability to design and evolve a Kanban approach that empowers teams to achieve their business objectives.

Are you new to the role of Scrum Master, or are you about to take on some of the responsibilities associated with this position? Perhaps your team shares or rotates the Scrum Master's tasks. Whatever your situation may be, it's important to have a solid understanding of what's expected of you and a plan for getting started successfully. This is a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and practices you'll need to know to thrive as a Scrum Master. 

Organizational complexity is a major obstacle to implementing business agility at an enterprise scale. While many enterprises adopt Agile methodologies to simplify complexity, scaling Agile poses its own challenges. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities that enterprises encounter when scaling Agile, and how Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) and technology such as Atlassian's Jira Align can assist them in scaling while enhancing business agility.