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Audience

This course is ideal for users who are new to JIRA Software and agile methodologies. Get tip grips with project management with JIRA by looking at basic JIRA and agile concepts and cover the different out-of-the-box actions and functions available to JIRA Software users.

Skills Gained

At the end of the this course users will understand basic JIRA concepts and will be able to use JIRA to work with issues and provide change tracking and control for software development projects using agile methodologies.

Prerequisites

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Outline

Module 1: Agile Concepts

Overview and introduction to JIRA Software

High level concepts of JIRA Software and agile development terminology

  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Backlogs
  • Sprints

Lab exercises Module 1: Why agile?

  • Battleships

Module 2: Introduction to JIRA

  • Sign up to JIRA
  • Create an agile board
  • Explore the interface

Lab exercises Module 2: Overview of interface - using Sample Projects

  • Study the sample Scrum project
  • Study thesample Kanban project
  • Understand the JIRA UI

Module 3: Creating a Backlog

  • Issue types
  • Epics
  • Stories
  • Estimating

Lab exercises Module 3:

  • Create Epics
  • Create Stories
  • View Versions
  • Rank the backlog

Module 4: Agile Planning

  • Sprint planning
  • Capacity

Lab exercises Module 4:

  • Create a sprint
  • Estimate
  • Plan a sprint
  • Start a sprint

Module 5: The Visual Board

  • Intro to workflows
  • Mapping to board columns
  • Constraints
  • Sub tasks

Lab exercises Module 5:

  • Identify your current status
  • Identify possible transitions
  • Progressing Issues
  • Working with sub tasks

Module 6: Working with Tasks

This is a free form module. What other tasks/actions do the attendees want to be able to complete on a daily basis?

For example:

  • Logging work
  • Flagging as important
  • Attaching files
  • Requesting notifications
  • Sharing with others
  • Copying
  • Setting due dates
  • Labels

Module 7: Introduction to Board Configuration

  • Configuring boards
  • Swimlanes
  • Columns
  • Colours

Lab exercises Module 7:

Module 8: Searching

  • Searching
  • Filters
  • Subscriptions

Lab exercises Module 8:

  • Example searches

Module 9: Reporting

  • JIRA reporting
  • Agile reporting
  • Dashboards

Lab exercises Module 9:

  • Accessing agile reports
  • Making use of agile reports
  • Configure a dashboard
  • Create a wallboard

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