Managing Waterfall Project in Jira Agile On Deman

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Hello,

I want to know best practices to manage water fall project in JIRA Agile. In our scenario some of the projects are being managed using waterfall methodology where development team concludes their development cycle and testing team start testing cycle. Once dev cycle concludes, Dev moves on to the next Dev iteration whereas Testing team is testing the dev cycle1. I would like to know your valuable guideline to manage this in a best possible way.

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Aamer

ajey · Answer

Use Kanban to manage Waterfall project. Use milestones as "Fixed Version" to do release management. Kanban also supports backlog so product team can work in backlog and board can show current tasks.

Pratap V. Simha · Answer

Don't use Sprints but just use Releases aka Versions and you can support a Waterfall project

Aamer Inam: M-3521 · Answer

@Geert Graat  For some of the projects we are using scrum approach and for some not. Nature of the project varies from one to another like purely waterfall, iterative or you may call them hybrid. All I want to ask that for waterfall should i create any other type of project while creating a new project so that dev and test teams can use them accordingly like dev teams are always in n+1 cycle and test team cycle is n . dev to move on to the next iteration whereas test team will test the dev n-1 iteration. this is the idea. In Agile I can not run parallel sprint since this feature is in the development lab (correct me if i am wrong).

@Nic Brough All I want is to create a project that allows me to define two cycles at one given time in which dev will always be one step ahead to the test team. also is it it possible that something like this can be done in Kanban that dev moves to next iteration, do not close it and proceed to the next cycle whereas test team stick to the old cycle and keep testing ?