I come from typical waterfall background and used to Microsoft Project Plan for scheduling activities (taking care of timezones, vacations, holidays, dependencies etc).
I am told to use JIRA for planning and tracking a sprint and am missing my mpp. Can you guide me on what tool can be used to schedule activities within a sprint - JIRA version I am using does not offer Gnatt charts, vacation/holiday management etc. Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Deliverables from a typical Gantt chart would be created as tasks in JIRA, with an potential sub-tasks required. All tasks sit in the backlog. Its decided length of the Sprints, typically 2 or 4 weeks, and predetermined the story point structure and max points to be allocated to each sprint. The goal is to have the work completed by the end of the Sprint, so planning and estimation is important. Based on priority, assigned story points, and capacity, the tasks are dragged and dropped into created Sprints.
That said, one could track Sprints in Microsoft Project. There are plenty of webinars/tutorials for that. Either way, the above planning is required.
I'd take the opportunity to learn JIRA as an alternative tool. JIRA is pretty widely used and will add to your toolkit of experience.
