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projects. 

JIRA
Jira is a flexible issue tracking tool that helps teams plan, manage, and report on their work. It
can be used by individuals or teams for both simple or complex projects.

JIRA HIERARCHY

1. Application level- collection of projects

2. Project level- one or more issues
3. Issue Level- Any work that needs to be done in the project.

USING JIRA
 User creates an account with a URL specific to them. E.g., https://domein.atlassian.net/
 Access control can be used to limit what different team members can do. For example:
To apply setting changes to all projects the user must have admin credentials.
 All users can modify their personal settings.
Visualizing Work
JIRA offers great possibilities for managing projects, tasks, issues, however, hug and
complicated project makes it is hard to see and understand the whole picture of it. A simple
solution to this is “Visualizing Work”.
Tools used to visualize projects.
1. A TO-DO LIST.
A to-do list is a simple list of tasks that allows you to
visually see what you need to accomplish.
Characteristics of a to-do list.
- Visually reminds you of work that you need to
do.
- It focuses on specific tasks.
- Allows you to track your progress.
- It lists tasks in order of highest-lowest priority (The order can be reshuffled)

2. BOARD
This is an agile tool that project teams can use to visualize
their progress. Boards may also be called: task board, project
board, Kanban board, or scrum board.

A board displays all the issues that occurs within the project,
providing you a flexible way of viewing, managing, and
reporting the progress on work i.e.. A board visualizes
workflows.

There are three types of boards that exist in Jira:

Why is visualizing work is an important principle of agile?

1. It focuses the team:
 It allows the project team to easily view the current and state of the work in the project.
 The check list can serve as a motivating factor as the team as the project progresses.
 The board specifies which issues or task are in progress, those completed and those that
are considered backlogged.
 Boards provide a visual of the true state of the project to the project team as well as
stakeholders.
2. It allows you to manage things.
 Teams can view, add new items, modify existing items, change their priority.
3. It improves the team’s way of working.
 A board can help the team visually identify objects that impede the progress of the
project as well as highlight areas for the team to focus on improving.

WORKFLOWS
Workflows are used to model the processes involved in the project. It is also called: process,
business process, and value stream. A workflow is a step-by-step decomposition of tasks in a
project. Steps may also be referred to as statuses, states, stages.

Workflow