Agile vs Scrum vs Jira

Agile

It is a methodology for the completion of a project end to end successfully, but it does not have any guidelines. But it is a thought process.

There are many different methodologies such as waterfall, spiral model etc. There are picked based on the use-case.

When to use Agile

1. When there is a new project or product which is not present in the market already.

2. The time is not known for the completion of it

3. Not sure about the features to be added (may add them in the future)

How to use Agile for a project

There are some frameworks that give guidelines and structural implementation of a project so, that it can be done without any issues. Some of the popular frameworks are

• Scrum

• kanban

• XP

Here in this article, we are focusing on the scrum

Scrum

A framework and tool that is used for the product management by taking continuous feedback from the clients.

In order to complete the project, a team need to collaboratively work also we might have team of teams like product, development, testing etc. based on the company structure.

Hence, in scrum we can separate the tasks by role system.

• product owner (who has good knowledge in end-to-end implementation of the project)

• scrum master (who handles the sprints, assiging to people to work up on etc)

• development (people who actually develops the product)

points to ponder in scrum

• scrum has principles of 12 that describes the guidelines of the scrum

• there are tools to implement this scrum framework, among them most popular is Jira.

Scrum Gorgons:

product backlog: all the wish list items are listed or described as a product backlog.

Epic: a high-level overview of a feature

user story: a small component of an epic, which should be easily understandable to the clients.

sprint: a time period where, we tend to pick up some user stories and assign to a sprint, stating that the corresponding stories should be completed in that time span.

sprint backlog: user stories present in a backlog.

velocity: average stories completed in a sprint

burndown: a visual representation of the stories left.

Jira

A project management tool which can be used to track the issues, raise tickets, sprint planning, dashboards and reports.

steps to create and work with a project in Jira

1. create a new project create epics create stories under that epic.

2. Assign this to users all stories will be at the backlog.

3. move the stories to create sprints if sprint is over but not completed stories.

4. Create another sprint manually every user story can have tasks and sub tasks

points to ponder

• can integrate with other services or products such as for code, bitbucket or GitHub and for the design Figma.

Jira is not only used by the developers but also all kind of stakeholders who are a part of the product. such as client, product team, testing team etc.