Using JIRA for Startups

Hello, amazing tech startups. I am going to show you a very simple tool in JIRA to to get your team kind of focused, organized, and staying on track with what needs to happen.

So I'm sure that many of you guys have heard of something called a sprint. So in a development world you know, development teams like to work in kind of short bursts of just like a few tasks that they can like get, you know, these three or four things done, push it out release and kind of like get testing going on that so that they can start working on the next thing.

Yes, that works for development. It also works for you know, the executive team, the marketing team, the brand new team.

If you're a tech startup, you probably are wearing all of those hats which is great. And so I just want to show you how you can utilize the concept of sprints for really any part of your app project.

So I'm just going to take, I just have a few simple things here. These are market research tasks. So I'm going to say over the next two weeks, I want our team to be 100% focused on market research.

So we're going to take this time. We're not going to be distracted by all the other things that we need to do for our app.

We're going to focus on this one thing for the next week or two weeks. You know, whatever, however much time you think that your team needs.
But the idea here is to keep people hyper-focused on one thing so that they can move quickly. And this is going to start creating a lot of momentum in your, in your app project, so or software project, whatever it is you're working on the there's a lot of power to momentum.

So if you can start creating some momentum was short sprints, short bursts of highly focused activities. Then you're going to start seeing real momentum happening in all different parts of your business.

So I am, so we were here last time. We created a roadmap. I am now in the backlog and I'm going to say, okay, great.

We have built out our roadmap. We know what our project plan looks like. We have a start and a finish date and we know what to do in between.
So now let's get going. So what we can do is we can say, Hey, we're going to take all the market research tasks, and we're going to get started on these.

And it is as simple as this, you are just dragging stuff from your backlog up into your sprint. And then we're just going to go ahead and start our sprint.

So great today's date. And then I'm going to give my team two weeks to finish this. Our sprint goal is to have a list of all major Competitors Features and benefits We like or dislike And a full review of their social media and marketing activities, right?

So we want to kind of dig in, see what is it that our competitors are doing? What are they offering that we want to do something similar.
We want to do something different. We want to, you know, we don't like this at all. So we definitely don't want to do that.

So that's what our goal here is. So we've set dates, you know, we set a start date, we set an end date, we set a goal, which is so important.
Like, don't you send your team out, like, Hey, let's do market research. Like let's set a real goal of like what it is that we want to, what is the result that we want to achieve at the end of this?

So we now have this I can take this and start assigning it to different people on the team. Or everyone can kind of just jump in and, and start working on this.

They can very, very easily add notes and comments and additional details. You know, that's just going to help the team, you know, have real insight, especially if you guys are kind of working, you know remotely or not at the same time.

And so that you really have opportunities to get updates and stuff in here. And that is it for sprints. Make sure you subscribe.
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