JIRA is a widely-used, proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and some project management functions.
Questions tagged [jira]
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How to close a bug that is no longer relevant
I'm currently on a medium-sized team of web developers. We're using jira for bug tracking.
We're working on a product with frequent layout changes. A lot of times bugs are filed about a bug in the layout in some browser. Sometimes, by the time we…
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Developers blocked by waiting on code to merge from another branch using GitFlow
Our team just made the switch from FogBugz & Kiln/Mercurial to Jira & Stash/Git. We are using the Git Flow model for branching, adding subtask branches off of feature branches (relating to Jira subtasks of Jira features). We are using Stash to…
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Categorize tasks/bugs by risk of changes
The project I'm currently working on has an issue: bugs and tasks are often assigned to people who are too new or too inexperienced and their work ends up producing more bugs down the road. The problem is that parts of our software are much more…
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With agile, what do when a user story doesn't get completed in an iteration?
Do you just move the story to a new iteration, or delay the next iteration?
It gets a bit tricky when you use something like Jira when you have to copy or move around stories between iterations as it effects calculations of velocity/points etc.
Is…
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How do you handle ever-growing piles of issues to be resolved "somewhen"?
We're using JIRA to keep track of issues in our software projects. One effect we noticed is that we often create a new issue but we don't knw yet when/if the problem is going to be fixed at all. So we invented a fake 'Distant Future' milestone which…
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Compute costs of bad code
I am looking for arguments to convince management to invest effort into refactoring.
We log work using Jira and relate every svn-commit to a jira call.
My idea is to do the following:
manually spot an area of code which is extremely bad…
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Is it generally helpful to include JIRA issues in code comments?
Once in a while, I leave comments like
# We only need to use the following for V4 of the computation.
# See APIPROJ-14 for details.
or
# We only need to use the following for V4 of the computation.
# See…
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How to document non-functional requirements in User Stories?
I work as a business analyst in a software development firm. In my previous organisation, the development was done using waterfall and we wrote: "Business Requirement Documents" (BRDs).
In my current role, the team is using Agile Scrum and JIRA to…
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How to model story preparation for issues which are tackled across several projects
In our company several teams will work on different components of several projects at the same time. For example, one team might make make specific kinds of software (or hardware) for some project(s), another team another specific kind of software.…
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How do you include "global requirements"?
I know it is best practice to split of your "global requirements". Which is something I do when documenting in Confluence.
However, when coming to grooming with the development team, I don't really know how to best incorporate these in to our User…
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How do I track tiny/small UI change requests in Agile?
How should I track requests for very small changes in the user interface of my Agile project?
These changes will take very little time to complete and require only a few words to specify. However, they have originated with the customer, and it is…
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What are common categories for Kanban and Scrum JIRA boards?
One minimal Kanban-like system has three places for cards: "To do", "In progress", "Done". As I've seen Scrum and Kanban on the web, it is maybe five or six categories.
What are some of the common options for categories for Kanban and Scrum JIRA…
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How to write tasks in Jira when using Scrum?
I am going to start a new project using Scrum and Jira and I have some questions regarding how to write proper tasks in Jira.
From what I understand user stories are small non-technical descriptions written by the stakeholders (ideally) that can…
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When should I create separate projects in JIRA
I've been using JIRA for few months -we are following traditional development methods (no agile/scrum). One of the things that I cannot decide, is when should we create separate projects in JIRA, and when should we add issues to the current projects…
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Scrum and backlogged issues
I run a development team that recently started using Jira and we began using agile scrum. I'm curious about a certain aspect of backlogged issues.
So far I have been marking new issues as unassigned until the issues are actually assigned to anyone.…
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