Using JIRA for Agile Planning
Useful Add-ons for Agile Teams
If you have Agile teams practicing Scrum or Kanban you will want to enable GreenHopper and a few other JIRA Add-ons. GreenHopper provides Agile project management capabilities. Bonfire makes everyone on the Agile team a tester. And JIRA Wallboards communicate what the team is working on today, their continuous integration builds, and other team metrics.GreenHopper
GreenHopper adds tons of agile functionality on top of JIRA to make it extremely useful for both scrum and kanban teams.
Specifically, a product owner can quickly order the backlog by dragging and dropping stories. The team can then estimate the stories and commit to a sprint. Finally, a burndown chart helps the team track their progress towards their sprint commitment.
GreenHopper is highly customisable so you can tailor it to fit your team's needs as the team evolves.
Atlassian Bonfire
Atlassian Bonfire is specifically designed to streamline your exploratory testing process. It allows you to report bugs directly from your browser without switching to another application. You can setup test sessions to keep track of your work, and you can easily attach and annotate a screenshot to new issues.
JIRA Wallboards
The JIRA Wallboards plugin turns your JIRA dashboard into an information radiator for your team. If you setup the JIRA wallboard in a common space, your team can constantly stay up to date with the progress of your project. You can display a number of different gadgets on your wallboard including: hour burndown charts, build plan status, and twitter.
