Agile Project Management with Jira Training

Course Overview

IntroducingJIRA Interface and Workflow

• Navigating the user interface

  • Selecting different project views (plan, work, report, search, admin)
  • Improving comprehension through rich text formatting and attachments
  • Cross-referencing issues
  • Watching ticket updates

• Prioritizing backlogs

  • Estimating task complexity
  • Organizing issues according to importance
  • Assigning issues to users and sprints
  • Flagging issues that require attention

Managing Scrum Projects

• Managing boards (backlog, sprint and review)

  • Exploring boards and project relationship
  • Starting and closing the sprint Improving productivity through day-to-day use

• Managing epics, stories, bugs and tasks

  • Labeling and tagging components
  • Optimizing search techniques
  • Refining user stories
  • Utilizing sub-tasks effectively

• Managing sprints

  • Monitoring the sprint board
  • Verifying issue status reflects reality

• Leveraging reports

  • Tracking progress during retrospective and review
  • Creating burndown, sprint, and velocity charts

Customizing and Advanced Configuration

• Advanced reporting

  • Creating custom reports with JQL filters
  • Designing custom dashboards
  • Utilizing custom filters

• Customizing JIRA

  • Aligning JIRA with your organization's needs
  • Configuring workflows for different teams
  • Changing estimation and tracking statistics
  • Adding custom fields to screens

Scaling Projects with JIRA

• Tackling a massively growing backlog

  • Classifying and grouping issues
  • Planning future work with releases/versions

• Managing multiple projects and teams

  • One team, multiple projects
  • One project, multiple teams

Managing Projects with Kanban

• Comparing Scrum and Kanban

  • Differences between Scrum and Kanban methodologies
  • Deciding which it best for your team

• Constraining throughput and capacity

  • Setting up boards
  • Organizing data with swim lanes and custom columns
  • Tracking progress

Prerequisites

 No prior experience is required other than basic Windows knowledge.