This course runs for a duration of 2 days.
The class will run daily from 8:30 am CST to 4:30 pm CST.
Class Location: Chicago - Chicago, IL.
This Jira training course is a hands-on immersive workshop that teaches you how to effectively manage your Agile projects with Jira. Align your core Agile principles and ceremonies with one of the most popular Agile project management tools developed by Atlassian: Jira. It can be used to manage and track your Agile requirements, defects, issues, products, projects and reports all within a single tool.
Whether you are a team leader, Agile manager, ScrumMaster or Product Owner, this course will help you understand the core functionality of Jira, and allow you to customize the tool to your organization’s software development processes and methodology. From creating projects to managing users, to setting up project views to reviewing reports, this course will set you up to use Jira for all your agile development projects.
Who Should Attend:
Jira Training Day 1:
Jira Interface – an Overview
Navigation basics and different project views (plan, work, report, search, admin)
Cross-referencing tickets
Watching and voting for tickets (hands-on exercise)
Prioritization and Estimation within Jira
Estimating work using story points / hours
Assigning tickets to users and sprints (hands-on exercise)
Jira Issue Types
Updating story subtasks
Grouping tickets (hands-on exercise)
Managing Scrum Projects
Managing boards (backlog refinement, sprint planning and review)
Exploring boards and project relationship
Improving productivity through day-to-day use
Managing tickets, stories, bugs and tasks (hands-on exercise)
Labeling and tagging components (hands-on exercise)
Optimizing search techniques
Refining user stories
Filing effective bug reports (hands-on exercise)
Leveraging reports
Action items on reports during retrospective and review
Creating burn-down, sprint and velocity charts (hands-on exercise)
Customizing and Advanced Reporting using Dashboards
Creating custom reports with JQL filters (hands-on exercise)
Designing custom dashboards (hands-on exercise)
Developing a custom search report (hands-on exercise)
Utilizing custom filters
Configuring custom fields, schemes and workflows (hands-on exercise)
Open Space
Retrospective
Feedback and collaborative discussion
Jira Training Day 2
Managing Add-Ons
Collaborating HipChat and Slack
Installing third party add-ons
Scaling Agile Projects with Jira
Managing Scrum of Scrums for remote teams
Coordinating multiple projects and search
Managing releases and burn-down charts for reporting
Issue Linking and referencing (hands-on exercise)
Applying Jira to non-software projects
Expanding Scrum and Kanban workflows
Customizing reporting and time tracking (hands-on exercise)
Managing Projects with Kanban
Setting up Kanban limits (hands-on exercise)
Creating Kanban boards (hands-on exercise)
Organizing data with swim lanes and custom columns (hands-on exercise)
Tracking progress
Optimizing work in progress
Interpreting cumulative flow and control charts
Open Space
Feedback and collaborative discussion
Any basic Agile course to gain a full knowledge of the methodology and understand the application. Recommended courses include: