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I’ve just published my first course on Udemy – JIRA and GreenHopper for Agile Teams. It provides an introduction to Scrum and Kanban with the latest versions of JIRA (6.0) and GreenHopper (6.2).

If you are new to JIRA and GreenHopper and want to learn more check it out now.

Following on from Part 1 where we explored how GreenHopper is used by Kanban teams to be Agile and continually improve. GreenHopeer Kanban boards make it easy for any team – be they in software development or customer support – to get started quickly and start realising the benefits of being agile immediately. In Part 2 we introduce work in progress limits to minimise context switching and measure cycle time to provide predictability to our customers.

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Since the release of GreenHopper 6.0 teams have been able to take advantage of new Kanban boards (formerly called Rapid Boards). These Kanban boards make it easy for any team – be they in software development or customer support – to get started quickly and start realising the benefits of being agile immediately. One of the key tennets of Kanban is that you don’t start by changing everything. Instead, you start by measuring the current process and then begin to explore areas for improvement. Start with what you have today and incrementally improve from there.

In this post we’ll look at how teams can take advantage of the power and flexibility of GreenHopper to help them get work done.

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