Notes on agile

To date I have Cleaned up a SharePoint data share for consistency around projects Migrated multiple teams into a new Jira project Created new Scrum boards and SOS boards for all those moved teams Created a first stab at an overview board so one can see all in progress, upcoming, and backlog work - with filters for teams Have been managing Jira (workflow, post-status functions) and I need to learn more to accomplish more. I current setup anything going to status "completed" gets resolution: done and "rejected" gets "won't do" to help with built in default reports, dashboard items and reporting. Decided I must learn to write Jira reports and Dashboard widgets to remove wasted redundant weekly work on writing reports and status updates - when all the data should be in Jira. I'm still trying to get a handle on everything but my goal I was given was 1. Visibility into what we are doing and need to do 2. Ability to estimate upcoming requests (th...

Today I spent my time creating new Scrum of Scrum (SOS) Dashboards in JIRA I worked on Sprint planning with my team as it was the start of the sprint. It did not go well they over committed to stories despite much vacation time planned, we also didn't have a good handle on groomed available stories. We started the sprint I worked on trying to get Sub-Tasks with time (hours) assigned, and not sure that went well either. I had to run many manual reports , I must learn how to automate these! This is waste.