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Agile Project Management with Jira Training

Course Outline

In this Jira Agile Project Management training course, you will learn how to configure Atlassian Jira to fit your organization’s needs, use real-time reporting to track projects and identify impediments, and see how evolving requirements are incrementally captured.

    Agile Project Management with Jira Training Benefits

    • In this course, you will learn how to:

      • Manage Scrum and Kanban workflows with Jira
      • Track multiple projects and teams
      • Configure Jira to align with your organization's needs
      • Utilize reports to increase visibility and transparency
      • Implement best practices to avoid common pitfalls

    • Prerequisites

      • Experience at the level of any of the following courses:
        • Learning Tree Course 918 Agile Fundamentals Training
        • Learning Tree Course 1813 Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) Training
        • Learning Tree Course 1814 Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) Certification Training
      • At least one year of work experience with Scrum or Kanban

    Jira Agile Project Management Course Outline

    Module 1: Introducing JIRA 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

    Module 2: 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

    Module 3: 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

    Module 4: 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

    Module 5: Managing Projects with Kanban

    Comparing Scrum and Kanban

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

    Constraining throughput and capacity

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