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Jira and Agile Projects

Atlassian’s Jira has emerged as the tool of choice for managing agile projects in the enterprise. This class teaches you to align agile practices, roles, and ceremonies with the Jira environment. Return to work ready to use Jira to manage technology projects, IT service delivery, and agile software development.

Use Jira for executing everyday agile project work.

This fast-paced, hands-on workshop teaches you how to manage agile projects, products, and development work using Atlassian Jira as your primary collaboration platform. In Jira, you have a tool designed to enable agile practices and track agile projects across a wide range of scenarios. Features such as issue tracking, search, reporting, and customization allow for seamless integration of agile projects in one project management environment. No other agile project management tool offers the depth of agile context and comprehensive agile framework that Atlassian has made available with JIRA.

Get up to speed on Jira quickly and go back to work ready to practice true agility.

This class teaches agile team members on how to use all of Jira’s primary features to support an agile practice. In two fast-paced days, you will get experience with issues, requirements, product delivery, reporting, and tracking. You’ll learn to use Jira to support sprint planning, stories, backlog management, and kanban boards (when necessary). After taking this boot camp, you’ll get back to work ready to embrace agile practices using one unified tool, and one unified set of concepts.

Duration

2 days/16 hours of instruction

Public Classroom Pricing

$1750(USD)

GSA Price: $1640

Group Rate: $1650

Private Group Pricing

Have a group of 5 or more students? Request special pricing for private group training today.

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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

This Jira training course is tailored for anyone looking to expertly manage their SDLC with the one comprehensive tool. Some roles that would find this course useful include:

Agile Practitioners
Project Managers
ScrumMasters
Product Owners
Program Managers
Analysts
Developers / Programmers
Testers
IT Manager/Directors
Customers/Stakeholders
Product Managers

Use Jira as a comprehensive platform for managing agile projects
Support your application/IT service life cycles and agile ceremonies/workflows using Jira
Map team member roles to Jira: Scrum teams, project managers, and product owners
Explain the basic parts of a Jira project & how they are organized
Run sprints and manage requirements, issues, backlogs and deliveries
Search for Jira issues and save your search queries for re-use
Use different types of agile boards and project formats
Efficiently rank and organize issues in the Jira backlog
Apply different agile board templates such as scrum and Kanban
Report on and interpret Jira data using built-in agile reports and Jira dashboards