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.