Questions tagged [jira]
JIRA is a widely-used, proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and some project management functions.
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Agile Sprint Planning for Cross-Functional Teams (UX, UI, Dev) [closed]
We have recently started using Agile methodology implemented with Jira. We are struggling to decide how best to arrange Sprints, Epics, Stories, etc when working across different departments.
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Should the Jira assignee change for testing? [closed]
We currently have Reporter and Assignee fields for Jira stories. For example, let's say we move from the 'Code review' column to the 'Ready for testing' column. Should the tester then come in, delete ...
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What should be the workflow for test management in JIRA
We are using Jira to track all our tickets and confluence for documentation. We intend to document the test cases covered on Confluence.
Here are a couple requirements:
Consider a development ticket ...
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How to deal with story-cards on a simple issue-board in Jira
I'm currently organizing a software project via Jira on my own. Right now I'm the only one who is developing on that project. However it is possible that more people will join the team in the near ...
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"Dev to QA handover" process improvement
I would like to get some help or ideas to solve my problems,
I just join a small company as junior project manager and I faced with 2 challenges sorry for my ignorance but I am new into the agile ...
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Advice regarding tools and insights from sprints on developer performance
I would like to get some help or ideas regarding the usage of JIRA and getting insights from it.
I just joined a small company as a junior project manager. In the last several sprints, Developer "...
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The meaning of "Fix Version" field in Jira, while working in agile, microservices and CI/CD processes
When working on a monolith application in a "waterfall" process, a "Fix Version" field makes a lot of sense.
Say you have the "November 2020" planned release, you can add/...
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Should we create review branch in github to story or subtask of jira?
I have an 8 pointer Story. Let’s call it for example XX1234
I have created 4 subtasks based on the list of actions to follow to complete the whole story implementation:
1. XX1235
2. XX1236
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Should User Stories be written for non-build requirements?
I am working on a project which is introducing a new Business Product, that is leveraging existing systems
From a requirements perspective, they fall into all these types:
A system change is ...
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Should your team put everything they do in JIRA?
I have started working with a team, in a scrum master type role, who has been using JIRA for a kanban type framework. Over the last 6-12 months, they have used JIRA to enter pretty much everything ...
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How to automatically triage production runtime errors before creating Jira issues?
How do "you" handle runtime incidents (say, a null-pointer exception, or an API input data validation failure) so that you (a) don't miss any, and (b) aren't spammed by duplicates? Are you doing log ...
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Parallel sprints in Scrum - one project, two teams
Currently, I am working on the project that consists of two teams which we track also in the JIRA software tool and it is basically two teams that are working on the same project so this is my ...
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Reducing dependencies between stories & which branch (GIT) should QA's test on?
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We have a team of 8 devs and 1 QA (tester) and we're struggling with dependencies between tickets and causing a lot of merge headaches and/or people waiting around for the next bit of work ...
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How to alleviate the development process through JIRA?
In our agile-scrum process, for each epic we are creating , we are creating automatically one user story that is related to that epic.
From that user story, we are creating automatically too, 4 ...
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Knowing what will get released in gitflow
We are a web SaaS company using gitflow and JIRA. As we are 'done' (QA approved) with a feature, we move the story/ticket forward in Jira to a 'done' status. At that point we wait until it gets ...
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Benefit of using JIRA issue key in fork based workflow
My team follows the practice of including JIRA issue key in each of our commits and also in the title of a Pull Request.
Each developer usually make changes in a branch on his/her own fork and then ...
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Cloning Jira tickets at the end of a sprint - carrying over effort and points
I have been working with Jira within an Agile scrum like methodology for a while now. What happens quite often is a ticket is estimated and started on. By the end of the sprint 95% of the work is done....
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How to document non-functional requirements in User Stories?
I work as a business analyst in a software development firm. In my previous organisation, the development was done using waterfall and we wrote: "Business Requirement Documents" (BRDs).
In my current ...
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Is it generally helpful to include JIRA issues in code comments?
Once in a while, I leave comments like
# We only need to use the following for V4 of the computation.
# See APIPROJ-14 for details.
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# We only need to use the following for V4 of the computation....
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How to resolve tasks completed from the backlog with no work done?
We have a mature product that we reuse for new projects. For one project, some tasks were created for already working features. Those tasks were all assigned 1 SP each. So, just as a sanity check, I ...
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How should both a Scrum team project and individual Kanban projects be handled within JIRA?
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We're a medium sized company that has a development team of five team members. We recently started learning/employing the Scrum method to our R&D department.
Our core team has one ...
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A Git workflow where QA tests are integrated into JIRA issues
My current workflow is this (it's basically a feature branch workflow):
1) I have two main branches: release and develop.
2) Development is done using TDD methodology using JIRA/Bitbucket. An issue ...
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When should I update 'due date' in JIRA?
Me and my collegue were having a discussion about when assignee should update 'due date' of the task in JIRA. My point is, assinee should update 'due date' only after he starts working over it so that ...
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Managing bugs and stories in JIRA
Our team has just started using JIRA. Now we are looking for advice on how to build our process in the most convenient way.
We have stories to be implemented in further sprints as well as bugs to be ...
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How do you include "global requirements"?
I know it is best practice to split of your "global requirements". Which is something I do when documenting in Confluence.
However, when coming to grooming with the development team, I don't really ...
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How to model story preparation for issues which are tackled across several projects
In our company several teams will work on different components of several projects at the same time. For example, one team might make make specific kinds of software (or hardware) for some project(s), ...
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How do I track tiny/small UI change requests in Agile?
How should I track requests for very small changes in the user interface of my Agile project?
These changes will take very little time to complete and require only a few words to specify. However, ...
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Should I consider microservice as an epic or a project in TFS?
When using tools such as TFS or JIRA to plan an application made of 10+ microservices, I am concerned should I consider microservice as an epic or as an new project?
In TFS when splitting ...
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Dev and Tester separated team AND single sprint
First a bit of background :
Previously in V cycle process, we have a dev team and a product definition/tester team (we'll call them testers).
We moved to agile few months ago with still this ...
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GitHub with TFS ALM
Is it possible to use TFS Application Lifecycle Management features (ie, user stories, tasks, work items, gated commits, all the good stuff) against a repository stored in GitHub?
How would one go ...
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Separating Issues across multiple products (JIRA)
My R&D team has been working on a major product for over a year and we're using JIRA for issue management.
Now got more minor, distinct products (not related to the previous one), and would like ...
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The burndown suffers due to "technical" dependency between tasks - should we focus more on each task, and accept additional overhead?
We have a new piece of functionality coming up. It comprises of 9 different user stories, covering the functions needed. Three of these are listed below:
As a user I should be able to add a person ...
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When should I create separate projects in JIRA
I've been using JIRA for few months -we are following traditional development methods (no agile/scrum). One of the things that I cannot decide, is when should we create separate projects in JIRA, and ...
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Code review and testing in the process
I am thinking about the software development process of my team, more specifically, I am thinking about tests and code review into our development process.
I came to the conclusion that, in order to ...
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Expanding Jira DB to include multiple target platforms
I am a member on the QA team but tasked with majority of the management of the Jira instance. We have launched our product on one platform, and will be starting to develop it shortly on 2 more ...
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Scrum and backlogged issues
I run a development team that recently started using Jira and we began using agile scrum. I'm curious about a certain aspect of backlogged issues.
So far I have been marking new issues as unassigned ...
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How to work on not User Story related tasks
I'd like to create a developer task collector where I'd put all issues that I see need some work but are not User Story related (e.g. fix some not visible quirks in startup animation, scan code with ...
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Tracking internal builds versus public builds
At our office, we use JIRA to track issues reported by our QA teams. We also have Bamboo which builds each time we commit to our Git (Stash) repository. QA picks a build from Bamboo and they work with ...
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How to express what do do when error occurs in a user story?
How do you express what to do when error occurs in a user story? Should the response to what happen on errors be in a task of the original user story, or should I create another user story that is ...
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Changing story-point estimates after closing the story
In a running multi-year multi-team project there is a set of stories that have been fully estimated and closed, having fulfilled the definition of done. Time has progressed and possibilities in Jira ...
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Developers blocked by waiting on code to merge from another branch using GitFlow
Our team just made the switch from FogBugz & Kiln/Mercurial to Jira & Stash/Git. We are using the Git Flow model for branching, adding subtask branches off of feature branches (relating to ...
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Categorize tasks/bugs by risk of changes
The project I'm currently working on has an issue: bugs and tasks are often assigned to people who are too new or too inexperienced and their work ends up producing more bugs down the road. The ...
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How to organise the different bits and pieces in an agile environment?
Trying to make our shop an agile environment, we struggle with some bits and pieces of that world. While not making it waterfally, we do have to have some sort of agreement on what a new feature needs ...
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What are common categories for Kanban and Scrum JIRA boards? [closed]
One minimal Kanban-like system has three places for cards: "To do", "In progress", "Done". As I've seen Scrum and Kanban on the web, it is maybe five or six categories.
What are some of the common ...
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Should user stories be assigned to team members?
We are using JIRA to manage the scrum process. What I'm curious about is whether the User Story issue type should be assigned to a team member, the PO, or remain unassigned. My gut tells me it should ...
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How can I use JIRA for project management with Green Hopper
I am thinking of using JIRA + GreenHopper for my project management.
I have seen that Green Hopper is for making User stories, sprints.
I am not able to find how do i need to add tasks, or how to ...
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JIRA Ticket Best Practices: How to write a good JIRA ticket [closed]
We "use" JIRA as our ticketing system, but "use" is a real stretch. We have no standards, no templates, no "best practices" documentation for writing a proper JIRA ticket. So I'm spearheading the ...
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How to close a bug that is no longer relevant
I'm currently on a medium-sized team of web developers. We're using jira for bug tracking.
We're working on a product with frequent layout changes. A lot of times bugs are filed about a bug in the ...
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How to write tasks in Jira when using Scrum?
I am going to start a new project using Scrum and Jira and I have some questions regarding how to write proper tasks in Jira.
From what I understand user stories are small non-technical descriptions ...
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What makes for a good JIRA workflow with a software development team? [closed]
I am migrating my team from a snarl of poorly managed excel documents, individual checklists, and personal emails to manage our application issues and development tasks to a new JIRA project. My team ...
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