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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

You're reading from   Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA Design and manage software projects using the Agile methodology

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789532135
Length 158 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Smaller stories or tasks


In this section, we are going to talk about whether we should have smaller stories or tasks, or how we should organize our work in the most effective way for our team.

In the previous sections, we set up our Sprint and started it, and we looked at how we should use JIRA within a daily Scrum. We'll talk about the work itself. We're going to talk about what is the best way for work to be structured in it. Should we have a story per person? Should we use subtasks under a story to make things more specific? 

One of the things that makes this so challenging, and the reason that we ask this question repeatedly, is because really, it depends. This is one of those places where it depends on the team, it depends on how we work, and there's some key things we need to be thinking about as we're structuring our work. Really, it's about speed. It's about delivering the most work in the amount of time that a Sprint commitment is. Talking about the fastest teams and thinking about...

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