Course Content

Part 1 – JIRA Fundamentals

1. Using JIRA

• The JIRA workspace
• Mapping JIRA features to common agile & scrum practices
• Tickets in JIRA

1. Team roles and JIRA

• Review: Agile and Scrum basics
• Team members
• ScrumMasters & Product Owners
• JIRA features for supporting Agile teams

1. 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

1. JIRA workflows

• Project roles & permissions
• Components
• Releases
• Projects to products
• Views of projects within JIRA

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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:

1. Agile Board Navigation
2. Compare Scrum and Kanban boards
3. Using Backlog mode
4. Filtering the Backlog
5. Planning a Sprint
6. Starting a Sprint
7. Managing Work in an Active Sprint
8. Closing a Sprint

1. Analyzing reports in JIRA

• Built-in JIRA reports and their benefits
• Analyzing reports
• Using information in JIRA to make decisions

1. JIRA scrum boards and agile reports

• Burndown Charts
• Sprint Report
• Epic Burndown
• Release Burndown
• Velocity Charts
• Control Charts
• Cumulative Flow Diagram

1. JIRA Kanban Board reports

• Control Charts
• Cumulative Flow Diagrams
• Work in Progress (WiP) and JIRA

Part 3 – Scaling JIRA enablement

1. 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

1. 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

1. Course conclusion: charting your path

• Discussion: Top three opportunities for improvement using JIRA
• Immediate next steps for your team
• Expert Q and A

Learning Objectives

• 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

Audience

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

Pre-requisites

This course does not require any pre-requisites.

Course Preparation

This course does not require any pre-course preparation.

Certifying Bodies & Exams

This course does not provide a formal certification or include an exam.

What You Receive

Two-days of quality instruction from one of our highly experienced trainers. Also included are:

• Course Materials
• Radtac Community membership including face-to-face and virtual networking and knowledge sharing opportunities, access to industry experts, special offers and invitations to special events

Online Details

We use Zoom video conferencing to host our live online courses via a virtual classroom. We recommend that before registering participants run a zoom test meeting and check system requirements to ensure they are able to connect. Participants will also use our digital workspace, Mural and our Agile Tools Mobile app for collaboration with the class and completing exercises for the duration of the course. You’ll find links below to test and explain requirements for each of these tools.

Zoom requirements

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux

Zoom test meeting

https://zoom.us/test

Mural requirements

https://support.mural.co/en/articles/2113688-technical-requirements-to-run-mural

Agile Tools Mobile App

https://www.radtac.com/resources/agile-tools-mobile-app/

On registration full information will be provided via joining instructions to each partcipant with instructions on how to acess the virtual classroom and additional tools.

Still unsure? Talk to our team of friendly learning advisors, they are here to assist before, during and after your class if you have any questions.