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. 

Estimating the effort required for projects can be challenging, but Agile project management offers solutions to simplify the process. This comprehensive guide covers how to manage estimation in an Agile environment and explores popular methods for estimating with Agile teams. 

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.

Organizations are undergoing a cultural and structural shift towards embracing DevOps, which leads to a higher demand for IT Service Management (ITSM) to support new releases and products, as well as an increased awareness of ITSM's impact on customer experience and satisfaction. This white paper by Isos Technology delves into the complex environment in which IT operates and how it can hinder collaboration between development and operations teams. 

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.

Rodney Nissen (TheJiraGuy) characterizes Agile Poker for Jira by Appfire as a solution that facilitates collaborative estimation, even for teams that cannot be physically present. In this review, he highlights that the app goes further by offering a mode that allows teams to estimate even when they are not online simultaneously.

The whiteboard idea is not novel. The Whiteboards app is similar to solutions already existing in the market, such as Gliffy and Miro. However, what sets this app apart is its Jira Cloud Native nature, enabling it to seamlessly import and modify existing Jira issues and create new content on the whiteboard. 

The issue with agile, particularly with sprints, is that teams are constantly under pressure to reach their next milestone. When someone suggests incorporating risk management, the idea may be dismissed as slow, cumbersome, and ultimately abandoned. This worksheet offers four workshops that are enjoyable and effective in identifying risks. 

This white paper introduces value stream management (VSM) and how it can benefit DevOps transformation by enhancing visibility, orchestration, integration, and governance to deliver customer value faster. It covers the three core facets of good DevOps, established metrics for measuring DevOps success, waste recognition, and the importance and benefits of VSM. 

In the pre-agile era of software development, project management dominated workflow processes. This involved extensive research, creating a master plan, and assigning projects to developers, culminating in a finished product launch, often years after the initial idea was conceived. Unfortunately, market and customer needs frequently changed by the time the product was launched. 

This book is about using Jira as an issue tracker and project management tool. It covers Jira Software, Jira Core, and Jira Service Desk. The book explains how to create a new project, use relevant schemes, configure workflows and fields for project screens, and analyze data using built-in reports and creating dashboards in Jira.