Class 4: Software project management#
Jira in its free plan allows small teams to organise tasks in sprints and track the work progress.
During this class we will create a backlog of tasks, assign them to team memebers and map to sprints.
User stories#
What makes a good story is well-expressed by the INVEST acronym: a story is Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small and Testable.
The common pattern of a story is:
As a {role} I need {functionality} so that {benefit}`.
For example:
As a teaching assitance I need to prepare good materials so that I help my students to pass exams.
Configuring Jira#
See this roadmap with tasks mapped to sprints:
Jira offers a lot of configurable features. Under the project settings you can enable reporting modules, adjust notifications, and so on.
Git Workflow#
The recommended collaborative work strategy is to follow github flow.
Roughly speaking, developers work on tasks in dedicated branches and integrate with main branch via reviewed pull requests, once a feature or a bug fix is ready.
