Agile project management with Visual Studio Online and JIRA

1. AGILE PM WITH VSO AND
JIRA
S.A.A.D.C.I. ATHUKORALA
S.P.S.SENDANAYAKA

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 Agile project management
 Why Agile?
 Life Cycle
 What is visual studio online?
 VSO features
 ALM in the cloud
 PM with VSO
 Demo VSO
 What is JIRA

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 Basic concepts in JIRA
 What is a project?
 What is an issue?
 What is a component?
 What is workflow?
 JIRA features
 Who uses JIRA?
 Why use JIRA?

4. Agile Project Management
 Agile project management is an iterative approach to
planning and guiding project processes.
 Each iteration is reviewed and critiqued by the
project team.
 The main benefit of Agile project management is its
ability to respond to issues as they arise throughout
the course of the project.
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5. Why Agile?
Better visibility
Better prioritization
Less down time
between tasks
Improved teamwork
More predictability
Agile
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6. Life Cycle
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7. What Is Visual Studio Online?
 VSO based on the capabailities of Team Foundation
Server with additional cloud services, is the online
home for your development projects.
 It helps you get up and running in minutes on cloud
infrastructure without having to install or configure
a single server.
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9. Visual Studio Online Features
 Host your code in the cloud.
 Discuss code changes with your team.
 Manage your team’s work in one place.
 Track requirements, tasks, and bugs with work
items.
 Build your applications in the cloud to Microsoft
Azure.
 Request & manage feedback.
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10. ALM In The Cloud
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11. PM With VSO
 You can easily manage your backlog.
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12. PM With VSO
 Create stories
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13. PM With VSO
 Modify stories from excel
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14. PM With VSO
 Create charts
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15. PM With VSO
 Team room features
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16. Demo-VSO
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17. Demo-Adding Bug
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18. What is JIRA?
The center of the Project Management System.
It will help to connect people, activities and projects
and to succeed in your work.
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19. Basic Concepts In JIRA
JIRA
ISSUES PROJECTS
WORKFLOWS
COMPONENTS
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20. What Is A Project?
 A JIRA project is a collection of issues.
 Every issue belongs to a project.
 Each project is identified by a Name and Key.
 Project Key is appended to each issue associated with
the project.
 Ex:
 Name of Project: Build New Project
 Project Key: BNP
 Issue: BNP_45
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21. What Is An Issue?
 Issues are heart of the JIRA.
 An issue could represent:
 A software bug
 A project task
 A helpdesk ticket
 A product improvement
 A leave request from client
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22. What Is A Component?
 Components are sub sections of a project.
 Components are used to group issues within a
project to smaller parts.
Project 1
UI DB Server Bug
issue1
issue2 issue5
issue6
issue3 issue4
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23. What Is A Workflow
 A JIRA workflow is the set of status and transitions
that an issue goes through during its lifecycle.
 Workflows typically represent business processes.
 JIRA comes with default workflow and it can be
customized to fit to organization.
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24. JIRA Workflow
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25. JIRA Features
 Issues Creation
 Creating tasks, bug reports, feature requests, helpdesk tickets,
is a breeze.
 No need to transcribe issues from emails to Excel worksheet
anymore.
 Issue can be easily created via
Web: Filling the form on the Web page
Email: Sending an email to a preconfigured email address
 Allows customizable items for different issues types.
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26. JIRA Features
 Reports
 JIRA delivers real-time, relevant information in a
convenient format.
 JIRA enables the management to have clear visibility of the
situation.
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27. JIRA Features
 Roadmap
 JIRA enables you to know what is outstanding and when
issues are scheduled to be resolved.
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28. JIRA Features
 Notification
 JIRA enables you to receive the information you need,
when you need it.
 Configurable email alerts as and when issues are updated.
 Optional emails to remind on overdue tasks.
 Subscribe to weekly/monthly reports on issue status.
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29. JIRA Features
 Powerful Search
 Find precisely what you are looking for in seconds.
 Search can be saved as filters and reused.
 Powerful and flexible searching.
 Supports searching of customized fields too.
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30. Tracking time on an issue.
Track activities of the period.
Track who has worked on what.
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31. Who Uses JIRA?
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32. Reasons To Use JIRA
 Features you won’t find elsewhere.
 It … just … works.
 Fair, upfront licensing policy.
 Battle tested by the world corporations.
 The information you need, when you need it.
 Easily customizable and extensible.
 Legendary service.
 Jira runs anywhere.
 Continually improving.
 Recognized with many industry award.
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33. JIRA-Demo
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34. References
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 https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-
studio-team-services-vs
 https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
 http://www.guru99.com/jira-tutorial-a-complete-
guide-for-beginners.html
 https://confluence.atlassian.com/agile/jira-agile-
user.../jira-agile-tutorials
 https://ess-
ics.atlassian.net/wiki/download/.../Basic%20tutoria
l.pdf?...

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