Learn JIRA with Real-World Examples (+Confluence Bonus)

Learn JIRA with real-world examples (+Confluence bonus)

Online Self-Paced

Learn to work on, manage & administer agile projects with this comprehensive course on JIRA Software & Confluence

Course Description

This course walks through all the core features and concepts of JIRA with real-world examples and has been catered for general users, managers and admins. Updated as of June 2020, it incorporates and uses some of the latest features released for JIRA Software on Cloud (standard version).

Plus bonus Confluence content – learn how to use Confluence and how to take advantage of it in tandem with JIRA.

JIRA is a very comprehensive tool and one of the most popular agile project management tools out there. When used and configured correctly, it will help you work smarter, faster and more efficiently.

WHY TAKE THE COURSE

Learn the most important characteristics of Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies
Cover all the main aspects of JIRA including working within an agile team, leading an agile team, and administering the main things that make up JIRA
Real-world examples including
1. How to manage your daily task-list via a daily scrum-based process
2. Configure permissions and projects for internal team members, as well as external members (Eg: consultants, customers etc)
3. JIRA allows you to create stories and epics for agile projects – learn how to create another issue type used in agile called Spike and create custom screens, fields and workflows for this new issue type.
4. Modify the default software development workflow to include steps for QA
5. How to manage multiple teams working on the same projects via multiple agile boards catered to each team
Support – I am only a message away from answering any questions you might have

STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE

Agile Concepts – Goes into detail with Scrum and Kanban methodologies. By the end of the section, you’ll have a full refresher on these methodologies as I made sure I hit the most important notes when it comes to how they work.
Working within an agile team – Get your first look at navigating the Jira user interface and learn how to create issues, work on issues through the agile boards, search for issues, create custom dashboards to see whats happening in Jira and other functions beneficial to any agile team member.
Leading an agile team – Configuring and managing agile boards, creating and maintaining the backlog as well as starting and ending sprints and creating releases. All these steps stay true to the agile steps described in the prior section.
Jira Administration – Goes over all the main administration sections and each part has an example that you can use to follow along with. By the end of this section, you will understand all the customizable aspects of Jira and be able to cater your own instance to fit your own specific needs.
Next-Gen Projects – a section that dives into the versatile next-gen projects in Jira and all its capabilities
Real-world examples, scenarios and bonus content – This is where I show you how I use Jira to track and forecast my personal day-to-day tasklist, while using a daily scrum-based process, among other examples.
Confluence – Jira’s best friend when it comes to managing content

BOTTOM LINE

Bottom line is that I tried to make this course a comprehensive guide to Jira that anyone would need to either get introduced to JIRA or get fully up to speed with the basic concepts and features. I feel the best way of learning something is by example. And so I put in a lot of content explaining the features and concepts with examples and am continuously working on adding more examples and scenarios to share my experience and knowledge in using JIRA within the real world.

I’ll be here to help answer any questions you might have along the way.

Requirements

There is no pre-requisite knowledge required to take this course.
If you’re looking to practice or follow along with the videos, you would need access to a Jira Cloud instance via a web browser

This course includes:

* More than 7hr of learning time required

Course content

Course Introduction

Course Introduction
JIRA - the 'What' & 'Why'
What Jira version will we use?
Course structure and tidbits
Setting up JIRA Cloud
How to create a project with sample data

Agile Concepts Refresher & Jira Teams

Section Introduction
Scrum in 10 minutes
Kanban in 4 minutes
JIRA Terms - What makes up JIRA
Agile Concepts Refresher & Jira Terms

Working within an Agile Team – For general team members

Section Introduction - This section will introduce Jira and get you up to speed with the basic essentials to start working with Jira.
Intro to the JIRA user interface & navigation
Intro to Project Navigation
Intro to Issue Navigation
Viewing, editing & understanding Issues
Working with Agile Boards
Agile Board - Backlog View
Agile Boards - Kanban
Creating Issues
Searching for Issues
Advanced searching using JQL
Search filters
Dashboard customization
Understanding the Resolution Field
Working within an Agile Team

Leading an Agile Team – For managers, product owners, scrum masters etc

Section Introduction
Configuring agile boards - Part 1 (Scrum board)
Configuring agile boards - Part 2 (Scrum board continued)
Configuring agile boards - Part 3 (Kanban board)
Creating projects
Creating epics and stories
Starting sprints & working on sprints
Creating software versions in Scrum
Creating software releases in Kanban
Creating an agile board with multiple projects
Closing sprints and viewing sprint reports
Leading an Agile Team

Jira Administration

Section Introduction
Jira admin section navigation
Creating a new user
Creating groups and access controls
Understanding the different permission levels
Global Permissions explained
Understanding Project Roles - Theory
Understanding Project Roles - Example
Roles & Permissions Example - Introduction
Roles and Permissions Example - Part 1
Roles and Permissions Example - Part 2
Roles and Permissions Example - Part 3
Understanding Jira Schemes & Introduction to the Schemes Example
Configuring Issue Types
Configuring Screens
Configuring custom fields
Creating a new Workflow
Editing an existing Workflow
Updating the agile board with new workflow changes
Understanding Workflow transitions - Screens
Understanding Workflow transitions - Properties and Triggers
Understanding Workflow transitions - Conditions, Validators, Post-Functions
Jira Administration

Next-Gen Projects

Introduction to Next-Gen Projects
Working with the Next-Gen Board
Working with Roadmaps
Controlling access restrictions for Next-Gen Projects
Next-Gen Project Settings - Issue Types & Notifications
Next-Gen Project Features

Examples & Bonus Content

Course Summary
Using Jira to manage daily tasks using a scrum-based process - Part 1
Using Jira to manage daily tasks using a scrum-based process - Part 2
Creating multiple boards for multiple teams - backend, frontend, QA, PM
Installing Jira Software Server on Windows and granting access to other devices

Confluence

Confluence – the What and the Why
Getting Confluence
Granting User Access
Spaces Introduction
Creating Spaces with Space Blueprints
Creating Pages within Spaces
The Confluence Editor
The Confluence Editor - Going forward
Page Blueprints
Other Page Options & Functions
Adding and Using Macros within Pages
Collaborative Editing
JIRA - Confluence Integration
Understanding Confluence Permissions
General Confluence Administration
Section Conclusion

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What you'll learn

Understand what JIRA is, benefits of JIRA and how to use JIRA
Understand Kanban flow of work
Use JIRA as a manager of an agile team - configuring agile boards, managing the backlog, sprints and releases etc.
Use examples presented in this course to customize and use JIRA based on your own unique needs
Learn the basics of Confluence

Understand Scrum - the stakeholders, events and overall flow of work
Use JIRA as a user working within an agile team - creating, working on and searching for issues, customizing dashboards etc.
Administer all aspects of JIRA - create users, groups, set permissions, configure issue types, screens, fields, workflows etc.
Get ideas (through examples presented in the course) on how JIRA can be utilized for different scenarios or situations
Learn how you can use both JIRA and Confluence together to work better and be more productive in general

Student feedback

Zain Makki

The language is very clear as an Arabic person, it fits my demand of getting the full knowledge of Jira software 🙂

Sri Sai Subhashita Vytla

It helped me learn about Jira and Confluence in a detailed and easily understandable way. Thank you so much for helping me with these lessons.

PD Team

Very useful course. I am really appreciate what you've been teaching along the course. Thank you so much again!

Anjali Chandran

The instructor has taken all the effort to put the course in this form and the result is great. I am able to understand each and every concept. The content is great.

Diana Christie

Fantastic course! Very well organized and explained thoroughly. Speed was perfect. Also appreciate the updates in the course as Jira continues to make changes.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who is looking for an agile project management tool
Anyone looking to get introduced to Jira and Confluence and learn about how they work
Anyone who is looking to understand all features and concepts of Jira & Confluence and get up to speed with using and administering them for their teams
Anyone looking for examples on how Jira can be used for agile teams and/or ideas on how to take advantage of Jira for various scenarios

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