Optimization of Software Development Process by Plugin Integration with Jira – A Project Management Tool in Devops

Software Development models (Waterfall, Spiral, Agile, Scaled Agile Framework-SAFe etc.) has been evolved over period of time to reduce the bottleneck in software delivery. Each of these models come up with some set of principles to follow in different phases. Irrespective of those principles a lot of tools has now come up in market to ease out the various aspects of delivery like requirement tracking, task breakdown, task assignment, workload balancing, release tracking, management of tasks interdependencies etc. Multiplicity of industries are being using different tools to reduce complexity of project/programme management. Agilecraft, Trello, Leankit, JIRA are few of the market leader project management tools in this space. This research paper talks explicitly about the optimization of software development process by enhancing the core features of Jira with the inclusion of different Plug-ins. This integration will help the software development and operations team to work under the same platform that in turn lead up to speedy delivery of software.