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Viewing all of my open tasks in Jira
On Jira's homepage, it displays all tasks assigned to me, including tasks that are "closed", "obsolete", or "won't fix". I tried searching for tasks and filtering by status, but it doesn't display all ...
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Agile control charts in JIRA - exclude working hours
I would like to exclude non working hours in my cycle time, how can I configure the Control charts to do that?
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Different Releases in the same Jira Kanban board?
We are a development team and we use a Kanban board (Jira) with different swimlines.
We have some tasks who are code related and other task who are not code related like investigations, query, ...
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How to allow a user to access one project in JIRA?
I'm trying to manage this project on JIRA. I want to invite my client to create issues, modify them, and change their status, but all this in only his project. He can't see my projects list, he can't ...
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Questions about moving from JIRA to VSTS Agile
We have a small team, and most of us are part-time. We have been managing the project using JIRA's simplified software template. We have started using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for continuous ...
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Dev team's role in configuring Jira
Let me start by explaining the big, unfixable problem here:
A new Technology Director has been brought in above my team, and he insists on deciding how Jira is configured, affecting people who don't ...
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Should we create an Epic for tech-debts
I was having a discussion in the team to create an Epic for all the technical-debts in the project. The problem is, as per definition Epic should not spawn more than a quarter, but, if we create an ...
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One Kaban or five Kanbans? My manager would like to implement Kanban to get better visibility on what his five teams do
He needs to do reporting to his higher-ups both on an organizational level and team level (one GIS org consisting of five teams w/ different GIS specialties).
He'd prefer to do one Kanban board for ...
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How to keep track of finished tasks vs deployed tasks in JIRA?
My development team and I have been using release dates (or fixVersions as they are called in JIRA) to keep track of all tickets for our iterative development schedule.
However, as our team grows ...
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Best practice for tracking merging hotfixes
We are working with two main branches in our project, a development branch and a production branch. All production fixes get their own hotfix branch, which is then merged back into the development ...
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Jira - How to name a Jira release
We have a Jira project which contains all issues for a single website. The website has several different components, such as the theme and several lambda functions. Each component has their own ...
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Adding sub-tasks to stories in Confluence?
I have just started as PMO Coordinator of several teams. All teams add sub-tasks to stories/requirements, and they do all this in Jira (create requirements/stories + DEV team add sub-tasks), and all ...
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Is it correct to create pre-release versions in Jira?
Before production release we make few intermediate versions to help managing test-fix iterations, like:
1.0-alpha1
1.0-alpha2
1.0-beta1
1.0
[edit] Basically those intermediate steps help us relate ...
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Give visibility to work being done by a subcontractor
My company has subcontracted a project and the subcontractor is using their own instance of JIRA to manage their work.
Because we use a different tool I opted to let them use the tools they know and ...
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Is it possible to display Estimation Points for lanes in Active Sprint in JIRA?
in the attachment you can see JIRA, an active Scrum Board.
I've a very simple question, is it possible to have on top of the lane a number representing the Estimated Points that are the sum of that ...
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JIRA - Story Points & Time Tracking
I've read various questions and answers and I'm really struggling to setup up a Project/Sprint/Story/SubTask to get what we think we need.
In terms of long term planning I've sold my team on the idea ...
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How can I leverage JIRA ticket assignments to encourage group ownership, pairing, and swarming without bypassing other core functions?
Background & Objectives
Atlassian JIRA is really just a ticketing system at heart. While there are a number of agile-ish workflows and plugins available to the system, the fundamental design of ...
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Is it possible to sort JIRA tickets in the Reports area?
the question is very simple. Scenario is a Scrum Project.
I would need to be able to sort tickets in the Reports are of a Scrum Project. Currently those tickets are separated per area, as Completed, ...
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Scrum when each member has their own product
I work in a team of 15 that implements scrum (as well as we can). Each person in the team has multiple products, that only they work on, and each of those products are unrelated to any other product ...
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Historical query results & date by which items entered scope (or fixVersion)
In JIRA, it is possible to ask JQL queries based on the current values of fields, such as date created, date modified, etc. With the ScriptRunner plugin, even more fun date-based queries are possible.
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JIRA - tempo how to set total number of hours a resource can commit?
Playing around with Tempo in JIRA at the moment, how can I set the total number of hours that a resource can commit, it seems by default it sets 8 hours per resource.
Thanks
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Production bugs and epics in Jira
We are trying to organize our epics in a better way. In the past, the epics remained indefinitely open on Jira. Every production support/bug ticket will be added to the exsiting epic. However, since ...
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Best practice for tracking management activities
Situation: My company is using external developers. These developers are working in a Scrum setting with a delivery manager to manage the communication with us.
The team is very satisfied with the ...
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Standard deviation in JIRA control chart what does it represent?
Trying to figure out what this represents? If standard deviation is high, does this represent inconsistent productivity?
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How can I track time spent by assignees on each ticket in JIRA?
I want to track time spent by each agent on each task on a JIRA Kanban board. If an agent was assigned a task and he assigns it back to me, I want to track the time he spent assigned to the ticket. Is ...
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Within Jira, how to identify current team allocations?
The objective is to pre-seed the user-project allocation matrix in HR system using the data pulled from Jira. This allocation does not need to be 100% precise as it will then get reviewed, and ...
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How can I divide a swimlane in 3 in JIRA?
We currently have 3 swimlanes (To Do, In Progress, Done), but in our first swimlane, we have both issues that are To Do and Ready.
At the beginning of the sprint, this is easy to know, everything in ...
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Why in JIRA my field Resolution is labeled as Unresolved, when status is Resolved?
Question is pretty simple, I've a Kanban project, with a personal workflow that provides different statuses, as Resolved.
When I drag and drop to this last one through the lanes, or when I set it ...
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Personal Time Tracking report using Atlassian Jira
I'm a software developer and I'm asked to log my time in Atlassian Jira for each of the subtasks we have in all the open stories. Sometimes we are in rush and I forget to log some time in the many ...
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Jira Project vs Epics vs Categories
Hi I am bit confused with the term project. Right now i am working as a project Manager in a startup firm where we have one prime client with a full time dedicated work and our product is an online ...
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How do you associate a bug identified after customer acceptance with the relevant epic?
In my understanding there are two kinds of bugs:
1. Bugs that are identified before an acceptance by the client
2. Bugs that are identified afterwards
In JIRA I think it is necessary to associate ...
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Reopen an epic after a feature request?
You are developing a software based on various modules. Each module is considered an Epic in JIRA. When the module is accepted by the client, the PM closes the Epic. After some time the client demands ...
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Project manager dumps all tickets in sprint
I have a project manager who's managing a sizable project (8 developers, duration over 6 months) with rapidly and constantly changing requirements. The PM has started dumping hundreds of tickets into ...
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Individuals in team keep ignoring my advice
Running a team where I am asking individuals to update/move their JIRA tickets, one keeps saying he will do it but never does. This is becoming very frustrating since I have a lack of visibility of ...
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Which is the best way to list tickets that do not change lane / status in JIRA?
my goal is to have a list of the JIRA tickets that are not moving from one lane to another so that I can intervene on those tickets and check if impediments, difficulties or issues are up in place.
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Can you extract issues from Jira on premise for reporting to management?
We have had a lot of success using JIRA for our risks, issues, decisions and milestones. What I want to do, though, is to have these queried and represented on a dashboard with Gantt charts, issue ...
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How does Jira “resolved” field (or its alias name “resolutionDate”) get set?
I am new to Jira and I have just joined a new team that is using Jira. We have a problem with our Jira Service Desk project's workflow. It looks like some months ago when an issue was moved to ...
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Hardware Development & JIRA — How to optimize the workflow / fix version field to take advantage of burndown charts
We're using JIRA for hardware development and have run into some issues related to the separation between the development and validation cycle. Let me explain:
We have an issue type "Development Task"...
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In Jira-Domo integration, issues with more than 1 sprint show as closed in the first sprint
We set up DOMO to pull from our Jira issues. We noticed that the Velocity charts were not matching up. We realized that for issues that are rolled into more than one sprint - if they weren't complete ...
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Whose responsibility is to add stories to JIRA (or other issue-tracking software)?
This might seem as odd question, but moving from business to business I'm still puzzled as to whose responsibility it is to add stories to JIRA (or other issue-tracking software), as well be ...
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How to manage misalignments between Design Specs and After Design Adjustments?
How do you manage this scenario?
UX and Visual design a feature.
PO and DEV decided -after design got approved- to ignore some specs of implementation, so we have something different than the design ...
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How can I display another Project's issues in my current Sprint in Jira?
Context:
A large , enterprise level Programme which has many teams and a pipeline of working with both software and infrastructure including migration and decommissioning.
Teams Affected
An ...
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How to project manage Multiple Product lines, Crossed linked projects 75 developers, 7-8 product managers in an agile manager
We are a medium sized product org with 700 people out of which about 100 are in tech, 75 developers (leads and arch included), 15-18 QA folks, 7-8 tech product managers.
We have some 70 line items in ...
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How do you write completable “stories” when all members of a team have a specialty?
From a user perspective our stories seem clear. From a engineering perspective our stories are a bit too broad and need to be broken up into sub-tasks. This is OK, but each member of the team has a ...
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Who can add “tasks” in Scrum/Kanban?
I am using Kanban for the process of etablishing a company. It may be kind of wrong since I am both the product owner and the development team. But I think it works, the user stories turns out good. ...
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How to write implementing HTTPS as a user story?
The title sums the question up pretty well. How do you do that? Should you even make implementing HTTPS a user story?
I thought of:
"As a page visitor I want all communication with the service to be ...
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Handling bugs in Kanban (using JIRA)
When we have features, we usually break them down to tasks that take about 1-2 days.
Usually our dev tasks are not ready for QA as soon as a developer finishes developing them, but only after the ...
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Do we need to update time estimates when we estimate based on story points?
We estimate the issues based on story points/planning poker. My questions are:
Do we need to update original/remaining time estimates when we estimate based on the story points?
If we estimate based ...
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Could you see this workflow in place for a development team within a digital agency?
We are trying to figure out a workflow that our developers/PMs can follow
that gives a developer everything they need for a project. A step by step process that PMs and devs follow so that a) the ...
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How to get an Epic span multiple sprints?
While setting up my Jira's project, I struggle to make an Epic span multiple sprints.
In other words, I expect an Epic (a complete feature) to be associated to multiple sprints.
The idea is that I ...
