Part 1 – JIRA Fundamentals
- Using JIRA
- The JIRA workspace
- Mapping JIRA features to common agile & scrum practices
- Tickets in JIRA
- Team roles and JIRA
- Review: Agile and Scrum basics
- Team members
- ScrumMasters & Product Owners
- JIRA features for supporting Agile teams
- JIRA issues and Agile Projects
- What’s possible with JIRA
- Navigating JIRA
- Creating, editing and transitioning issues
- Types of issues
- JIRA’s standard hierarchy
- Stories, prioritizing & estimating
- Managing backlogs in JIRA
Hands-On Exercise: Using issues to track, link, and cross-reference agile projects
- JIRA workflows
- Project roles & permissions
- Components
- Releases
- Projects to products
- Views of projects within JIRA
- Search and Exploring Data
- Prioritizing & searching JIRA issues
- Views & options for meaningful results
- Using filters
- Using JIRA Query Language (JQL)
- Saved searches and re-use
- Using dashboards & subscriptions
Hands-On Exercise: Defining search criteria and using JQL, detail view, list view, filters & subscriptions
Part 2 – Applying JIRA to Enterprise Work
- Managing agile & kanban boards in JIRA
- Aligning agile boards with team needs
- Scrum vs. Kanban boards
- Using Kanban boards
- Typical team member duties in JIRA
- Supporting sprint planning and resource assignments
- Managing your backlog efficiently with JIRA
- Epics, stories, and sub-tasks
- Releases and release reporting
- Sprints in JIRA
- Starting a sprint
- Active sprints
- Quick filters for managing work
- Swimlanes
- Closing a sprint
Demo – Using Agile Boards for backlogs and sprints
During this in-depth demonstration, we will show you how to use JIRA for some of the most common agile project needs. This demo will cover:
- Agile Board Navigation
- Compare Scrum and Kanban boards
- Using Backlog mode
- Filtering the Backlog
- Planning a Sprint
- Starting a Sprint
- Managing Work in an Active Sprint
- Closing a Sprint
- Analyzing reports in JIRA
- Built-in JIRA reports and their benefits
- Analyzing reports
- Using information in JIRA to make decisions
- JIRA scrum boards and agile reports
- Burndown Charts
- Sprint Report
- Epic Burndown
- Release Burndown
- Velocity Charts
- Control Charts
- Cumulative Flow Diagram
- JIRA Kanban Board reports
- Control Charts
- Cumulative Flow Diagrams
- Work in Progress (WiP) and JIRA
Part 3 – Scaling JIRA enablement
- Using JIRA to enable Agile projects at scale
- Managing multiple projects in JIRA
- Cross-referencing and linking issues
- Portfolio and program support with JIRA
- Managing releases
- Reporting
- JIRA plugins
- Building Dashboards in JIRA
- Creating, editing, and sharing dashboards
- Dashboard gadgets to present information
- Where do gadgets get their data?
- Configure dashboard gadgets with project data and/or filtered data
- Dashboard layouts
- Dashboard troubleshooting
- Course conclusion: charting your path
- Discussion: Top three opportunities for improvement using JIRA
- Immediate next steps for your team
- Expert Q and A