Overview
An expert instructor will teach your team how to set up and manage a service desk.
Your team will learn how to create a service desk for your customers and how to manage a service project using Jira Service Management. Your team will get hands-on experience performing the most crucial configuration tasks involved in setting up your service project and customer portal.
Throughout the course, your team will be able to ask organization-specific questions in real-time and get the answers they need. The team learning environment delivers engagement, retention, and collaboration, extending the benefits of an instructor-led course beyond instruction time.
Next Upcoming Course


Train up your teams with private group training
Have a group of 5 or more students? Cprime also provides specialist private training with exclusive discounts for tailored, high-impact learning.
Managing Jira Service Projects Schedule
Full Course Details
Course Introduction
- Course Goals and Learning Objectives
- Prerequisites and Success Guidelines
- Course Schedule and Structure
- Lab 1 – Logging into your site
Creating a Service Project
- Overview of Jira Service Management
- Service Project Use Cases (IT, HR, Internal Teams)
- Jira Roles and Responsibilities (Admins, Agents, Customers)
- Creating and Configuring a Service Project
- Lab 2 – Creating a Service Project
Requests and Queues
- Setting Up and Customizing Request Types
- Forms and Field Customization
- Customizing Workflow Statuses
- Creating and Managing Queues
- Best Practices for Portal Usability
- Exercise 1 – Setting Up Request Types
- Exercise 2 – Creating & Managing Queues
- Lab 3 – Requests & Queues
Configuring SLAs
- SLA Components (Metrics, Goals, Timeframes)
- Preconfigured and Custom SLA Examples
- SLA Calendars and Global Support Models
- Monitoring SLAs with Reports, JQL, and Dashboards
- Exercise 1 – Configuring SLAs
- Exercise 2 – Creating an SLA Monitoring Dashboard
- Lab 4 – Configuring SLAs
Using a Knowledge Base
- Benefits of a Knowledge Base for Customers and Agents
- Integrating Confluence with Jira
- Configuring Article Suggestions and Access
- Creating and Sharing Knowledge Base Articles
- Exercise 1 – Using a Knowledge Base
- Lab 5 – Using a Knowledge Base
Customizing Email Channel & Customer Portal
- Setting Up and Customizing the Email Channel
- Customizing Notifications and Request Type Mapping
- Branding the Customer Portal
- Branding the Global Help Center
- Exercise 1 – Branding Your Customer Portal
- Optional Exercise 2 – Branding Your Help Center
- Optional Exercise 3 – Changing Your Project Logo
- Lab 6 – Branding Your Customer Portal
Adding Users to Your Service Project
- Adding and Managing Agents
- Adding Customers and Customer Organizations
- Configuring Customer Permissions
- Involving Jira Users in the Workflow
- Exercise 1 – Adding Users to Your Service Project
- Exercise 2 – Adding Customers to Your Service Project
- Lab 7 – Adding Users to Your Service Project
Automating Your Service Project
- Overview of Jira Automation and Its Benefits
- Building Automation Rules (Triggers, Conditions, Actions)
- Using Smart Values and Rule Testing
- Jira Service Management Template Rules and Advanced Triggers
- Exercise 1 – View Jira Service Management Automation
- Exercise 2 – Create a New Jira Service Management Automation Rule
- Exercise 3 – Setting Up a New Preset Automation Rule
- Exercise 4 – Troubleshooting Automation Rules & SLAs
- Lab 8 – Automating Your Service Project
This course is designed for anyone setting up a Jira service project in Jira Service Management including:
- Jira administrators
- Service project administrators
- Service project managers
- team managers
- IT managers.
After this course, your team will be able to:
- Configure and brand your customer portal
- Create queues and SLAs for your service team
- Use a linked knowledge base
- Add participants to your service project
- Automate common tasks
- Create and administer service projects