The recently launched Jira Studio 2.3 includes a ton of improvements to the agile planning and tracking features. With the update to GreenHopper 5.2, Jira Studio 2.3 includes three releases worth of new GreenHopper features. Here are a few blog posts from the GreenHopper team highlighting those features.
Faster Agile Planning and Tracking
The revamped planning board and task board include several features to make these tools even faster and simpler to use, including:
- Planning board filtering by component and/or assignee.
- Task board filtering by assignee.
- Time-saving improvements including bulk issue change, drag-able markers, epic creation and more.
Check out “GreenHopper 5.1 – even faster agile planning”
Top 5 ‘Flexible’ Agile Features
‘Agile’ means different things to different teams, and GreenHopper has been designed to support how your team works rather than trying to enforce a specific methodology. This blog post highlights our five favorite ‘flexible’ features including:
- Configurable cards and fields
- Nested versions and statistics
- Custom workflow
- Shareable views
- Configurable burndown and burnup charts
Check out “Flexible agile planning with GreenHopper”
Supporting a Scrum Process with Jira Studio
- building and organizing a product backlog.
- defining your tasks for an iteration in a sprint backlog.
- tracking progress using burndown charts.
- supporting meetings including planning, daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
Check out “The Scrum Framework with GreenHopper”
Improved Kanban Support
Check out this blog post to learn about new features that support using a lean approach, including:
- Cummulative flow diagrams to track the volume of issues in different workflow states across time.
- Release from task board makes it fast and simple to create a new version and assign issues to it right from the task board.