Agile Project Management with Jira Training

Agile Project Management with Jira Training (LT-3642)

Course Length: 3 days
Delivery Methods: Available as private class only
Course Overview

This Jira Agile Project Management training course teaches you how to configure Atlassian Jira to meet your organization’s needs, utilize real-time reporting to track projects and identify impediments, and incrementally capture evolving requirements. The course is designed for project managers, team leads, and anyone involved in managing agile projects using Jira.

Course Benefits
  • Learn to navigate the Jira user interface efficiently.
  • Master the art of prioritizing backlogs for better project management.
  • Gain insights into managing boards, sprints, and tasks effectively.
  • Understand how to create and leverage various reports for agile project tracking.
  • Customize Jira to align with your organization’s specific needs.
  • Explore differences between Scrum and Kanban methodologies to choose the best fit for your team.
Course Outline
  1. Navigating the user interface
    1. Selecting different project views (plan, work, report, search, admin)
    2. Improving comprehension through rich text formatting and attachments
    3. Cross-referencing issues
    4. Watching ticket updates
  2. Prioritizing backlogs
    1. Estimating task complexity
    2. Organizing issues according to importance
    3. Assigning issues to users and sprints
    4. Flagging issues that require attention
  3. Managing boards (backlog, sprint, and review)
    1. Exploring boards and project relationships
    2. Starting and closing the sprint
    3. Improving productivity through day-to-day use
  4. Managing epics, stories, bugs, and tasks
    1. Labeling and tagging components
    2. Optimizing search techniques
    3. Refining user stories
    4. Utilizing sub-tasks effectively
  5. Managing sprints
    1. Monitoring the sprint board
    2. Verifying issue status reflects reality
  6. Leveraging reports
    1. Tracking progress during retrospective and review
    2. Creating burndown, sprint, and velocity charts
  7. Advanced reporting
    1. Creating custom reports with JQL filters
    2. Designing custom dashboards
    3. Utilizing custom filters
  8. Customizing Jira
    1. Aligning Jira with your organization's needs
    2. Configuring workflows for different teams
    3. Changing estimation and tracking statistics
    4. Adding custom fields to screens
  9. Tackling a massively growing backlog
    1. Classifying and grouping issues
    2. Planning future work with releases/versions
  10. Managing multiple projects and teams
    1. One team, multiple projects
    2. One project, multiple teams
  11. Comparing Scrum and Kanban
    1. Differences between Scrum and Kanban methodologies
    2. Deciding which is best for your team
  12. Constraining throughput and capacity
    1. Setting up boards
    2. Organizing data with swim lanes and custom columns
    3. Tracking progress
Class Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Live Private Class
  • Private Class for your Team
  • Live training
  • Online or On-location
  • Customizable
  • Expert Instructors
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