Blog

Agile Tools

5 pitfalls when using Atlassian Jira

Jira Atlassian is a great ALM tool for managing your Agile environment. It provides a friendly work space for Agile teams and has some informative out-of-the-box reports that allow teams to easily apply root cause analysis.

At the program level, there are several easy ways to achieve aggregated data reports and epic progress boards. The relatively new Jira portfolio also has some interesting features that enable larger organizations to manage their program, including shared planning, shared releases, progress, and mitigation plans.

Visiting many organizations that use Jira as their main tool for their Agile environment, I decided to summarize 5 common pitfalls it is best to avoid.

Read More »
Agile Tools

Agile Practices using Jira Atlassian

The more we meet software development organizations, the more we see how Jira, the most popular ALM tool out there, is being misused.  Abusing the tool is quite easy actually… Paraphrasing Tolstoy’s words from Anna Karenina, “Good Jira implementations are all alike but unhappy implementations are all unhappy in their own way”. (In AgileSparks we keep a warm place for the classics). We have seen many cases where the abuse of the tool caused frustrations and inconsistencies with the Agile mindset that put at risk the ability to benefit from Agile practices adopted by the organization.

Read More »
Agile Mindset

The Critical Difference Between Backlog and To Do (Kanban, Scrum)

When we build a kanban board to manage our work (either practicing Kanban or Scrum) we usually create a Backlog list (usually the first column) and a To Do list (following the Backlog). I’ve noticed that many times the separation between the two is artificial and people don’t always understand the critical difference between the two. I’d like to discuss it here.

Read More »
Agile Tools

Kanban Tools

When going to use kanban, a team/organization needs to decide whether to use a physical or electronic board.A physical board is tangible, fully customizable, and

Read More »
Agile Israel

Software Craftsmanship

Practicing Agile at the process level yields a great performance boost to development teams. In order to be able to persist a fast going pace, it is imperative to craft the code in a way that will support Agile. Embracing change in the process level without supporting it in the code level could bring a project to a total disaster.

Read More »
Subscribe for Email Updates:

Most New:

Categories:

Tags:

Agile Risk Management
Games and Exercises
Agile Community
Scrum
Frameworks
Artificial Intelligence
A Kanban System for Software Engineering
AgileSparks
WIP
AI
Release Train Engineer
Agile
Nexus vs SAFe
Scrum Primer
Large Scale Scrum
Nexus
Tools
Lean Software Development
Agile Release Management
Agile Marketing
RSA
ART Success
Scaled Agile Framework
AI Artificial Intelligence
Engineering Practices
Agile Product Development
Continuous Improvement
Lean Agile Leadership
Program Increment
Professional Scrum with Kanban
Agile Mindset
Lean Agile
Portfolio for Jira
Slides
Scrum Guide
Built-In Quality
Elastic Leadership
System Team
Agile Games and Exercises
Iterative Incremental Development
Kanban Basics
Principles of Lean-Agile Leadership
Product Management
Agile Israel
Sprint Retrospectives
Keith Sawyer
Nexus and Kanban
TDD
Webinar
Presentation
chatgpt
Continuous Integration
IT Operations
Kanban Game
Process Improvement
Agile Games
Certified SAFe
ALM Tools
SPC
Continuous Delivery
RTE
Releases Using Lean
Lean and Agile Principles and Practices
EOS®
Agile Israel Events
Entrepreneurial Operating System®
Scrum With Kanban
Agile Development
Spotify
LAB
Agile Basics
The Agile Coach
Scrum.org
Code
Advanced Roadmaps
BDD
System Integration Environments
Software Development Estimation
DevOps
Kaizen
An Appreciative Retrospective
Agile Outsourcing
ATDD
Test Driven Development
What Is Kanban
Planning
Hybrid Work
Effective Agile Retrospectives
Development Value Streams
Achieve Business Agility
Implementation of Lean and Agile
Acceptance Test-Driven Development
ATDD vs. BDD
RTE Role
Sprint Iteration
Agility
ROI
Agile Exercises
Legacy Enterprise
Kanban Kickstart Example
Agile Delivery
Kaizen Workshop
SAFe Release Planning
User stories
predictability
Lean-Agile Budgeting
Lean Agile Basics
Software Development
Tips
PI Objectives
GanttBan
Agile Contracts Best Practices
Agile Release Planning
Introduction to Test Driven Development
LeSS
Continuous Planning
Nexus and SAFe
ARTs
Product Ownership
Professional Scrum Product Owner
Enterprise DevOps
Agile Project Management
Nexus Integration Team
Operational Value Stream
Agile and DevOps Journey
QA
Change Management
transformation
Scrum Master
Agile Techniques
Kanban
Lean Agile Organization
Certification
Pomodoro Technique
Agile Product Ownership
POPM
SA
Applying Agile Methodology
lean agile change management
Retrospectives
Scrum Master Role
Business Agility
LPM
Story Slicing
Lean Agile Management
SAFe
Covid19
Kanban 101
Rovo
Perfection Game
Manage Budget Creation
Risk Management in Kanban
Agile for Embedded Systems
Agile Testing Practices
Reading List
Lean-Agile Software Development
Atlassian
speed @ scale
Risk Management on Agile Projects
speed at scale
ScrumMaster Tales
PI Planning
Agile India
Legacy Code
Value Streams
Agile in the Enterprise
Sprint Planning
Team Flow
Professional Scrum Master
Lean Startup
Self-organization
Confluence
agileisrael
System Archetypes
Agile Program
Lean Risk Management
Atlaassian
Continuous Deployment
Scrum Values
SAFe DevOps
Limiting Work in Progress
Daily Scrum
Systems Thinking
Risk-aware Product Development
Video
Scrum and XP
Jira
Coaching Agile Teams
Managing Risk on Agile Projects
Amdocs
Lean and Agile Techniques
Jira Plans
Jira admin
Jira Cloud
NIT
Managing Projects
Accelerate Value Delivery At Scale
Agile Project
Introduction to ATDD
Lean Budgeting
Implementing SAFe
Rapid RTC
Agile Assembly Architecture
Quality Assurance
AgileSparks
Logo
Enable registration in settings - general

Contact Us

Request for additional information and prices

This website uses Cookies to provide a better experience
Shopping cart