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Agile -> Team based project management methodology.

Jira  is Agile Project management tool & issue tracker.
There are 2 methods of working with agile in JIRA. Kanban and Scrum(Agile methodologies)

Sprint is a set period of time(commonly 1 to 4 weeks). To start a sprint, the team meets with scrum board(Backlog, todo, in progress, complete) open. Two main questions are asked

• What went well in the last sprint?
• What can we improve on for the next sprint?

Go thru tickets to determine and agree on what will get accomplished in the next sprint

Scrum Daily Stand-Up meeting - Each team member answers 3 questions(nothing other than the three questions are discussed)

• What did I accomplish yesterday
• What will I do today
• What roadblocks do I forsee to stop me from accomplishing my goal?

 Epic and user Stories

• Epic is essentially a large user story that needs multiple sprints to complete 
• As a content creator, I want to be able to upload any video so that I don't have to know how to convert videos to a web-friendly format myself.
• A user story (a user focused story), that can be finished with in a sprint.
• eg/formula: As a [role], I want [desire] so that benefit
• As a content creator, I want to be able to upload any video so that I can see it online 
• As a content creator, I want the server to convert videos for me so that I don't have to convert them myself.

 Some resources to
  http://agilemanifesto.org
  http://www.agilealliance.org/agile101/

JIRA

• Issue:  Every card/ticket on board is what JIRA calls an "issue"
• Every issue has a unique key. The key is made up of the project & a sequential number(DEMO-251, BUG-45)
• Jira has different types of issues. Each type has different fields associated
• Epic
• story (Due date, assignee, Labels)
• Feature request
• User contact(First name, Last name, Email)
• Bug (OS, Assignee, Screenshot)
• Task
• Project
• Projects are a bucket
• Issues live inside a project
• Properties such as user permissions, workflows and more are associated with projects
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