Agile with Jira Software Essentials (Cloud)
This Agile with Atlassian Jira Software training course gets you to grips with project management within JIRA. Make it a 2 day course by combining with Jira Software Administration - simply enquire.
Audience:
Prerequisites:
- No previous knowledge required
Objectives & Outcomes:
Course outline:
Module 1: Agile Concepts
1. Overview and introduction to Jira Agile
- Introduction to Jira Agile
2. High level concepts of Jira Agile and Agile development terminology
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Backlogs
- Sprints
Lab Exercises
1. Why Agile?
Module 2: Introduction to JIRA
- Sign up for Jira
- Create an agile board
- Explore the interface
Lab Exercises
1. Overview of interface – using Sample Projects
- Study the sample Scrum project
- Study the sample Kanban project
- Understand the Jira ? Jira Agile UI
Module 3: Creating a Backlog
- Issue types
- Epics
- Stories
- Estimating
Lab Exercises
- Create Epics
- Create Stories
- View Versions
- Rank the backlog
Module 4: Agile Planning
1. Scrum
- Sprint Planning
- Estimating
- Capacity
2. Kanban
Lab Exercises
- Create a spring
- Estimate
- Plan a sprint
- Start a sprint
Module 5: The Visual Board
- Intro to workflows
- Mapping to board columns
- Constraints
- Sub tasks
Lab Exercises
- Identify your current status
- Identify possible transitions
- Progressing Issues
- Working with sub tasks
Module 6 (Optional): 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
Lab Exercises
Free form – facilitator demos requests and students can then try for themselves.
Module 7 (Optional): Introduction to Board Configuration
- Configuring boards
- Swimlanes
- Columns
- Colours
Lab Exercises
- Configuring boards
- Swimlanes
- Columns
- Colours
Module 8: Searching
- Searching
- Filters
- Subscriptions
Lab Exercises
- Example searches
- Filters
- Subscriptions
Module 9: Reporting
- Jira reporting
- Agile reporting
- Dashboards
Lab Exercises
- Accessing Agile reports
- Making use of Agile reports
- Configure a dashboard
- Create a wallboard