Jira Software for Lightweight Agile

Introduction to using Jira Software for your Agile projects.

Language: english

Note: 0/5 (0 notes) 314 students New course

Instructor(s): Peter Ikuobase

Last update: 2022-06-29

What you’ll learn

Understand what Jira Software is and how you can use it.
Understand how Jira Software can help you manage your projects better.
Understand how to use Jira Software to apply agile techniques on a specific project.
Be confident to attend a follow-on course on how to set up your project in Jira Software.

Requirements

Comfortable using a computer
Familiarity with browser-based software and websites

Description

Jira Software is a web-based application widely used across many industries to track projects and manage issues. Developed by an experienced eCommerce Project Manager and regular power-user of Jira Software, this course is designed to give you a basic overview of the application and how you can use it for your projects.

The course is aimed at project managers, business analysts and testers who want a straightforward way of improving the delivery of their projects using agile techniques. It is for professionals who want to adopt an agile approach for the project without necessarily rolling it out across the wider organisation. By the end of the course, you will understand how Jira Software can help you with your projects. You will know enough to undertake more in-depth training.

The course will cover the following topics:

Section 1

Introduction to Jira Software

Section 2

Overview of Jira Software

Overview of Atlassian Software

Setting Up Jira – Tutorial

Overview of the Jira Software User Interface – Tutorial

Section 3

Issue Tracking in Jira Software

Creating an Issue – Tutorial

Add a Step to a Workflow – Tutorial

Viewing and Adding Statuses – Tutorial

Adding a Custom Field – Tutorial

Section 4

Organising a project in Jira Software

Creating a Project in Jira – Tutorial

Using the Backlog – Tutorial

Creating a Sprint – Tutorial

Section 5

Help with Monitoring and Reporting

Setting up Filters – Tutorial

Section 6

Managing Specific needs for projects

Linked Issues and Sub-tasks – Tutorial

Jira for Test Management – Tutorial

Who this course is for

Project managers, business analysts and testers who want learn how they can use Jira Software on their projects.
Project managers, business analysts and testers who want to be a bit more agile on their projects.
Project managers, business analysts and testers who want to run an agile project before the whole company is ready to adopt Agile.

Course content

Introduction to Jira Software
- Introduction to Jira Software
Overview of Jira Software
- Overview of Jira Software
- Overview of Atlassian Software
- Setting Up Jira – Tutorial
- Overview of the Jira Software User Interface – Tutorial
Issue Tracking in Jira Software
- Issue Tracking in Jira Software
- Creating an Issue – Tutorial
- Add a Step to a Workflow – Tutorial
- Viewing and Adding Statuses – Tutorial
- Adding a Custom Field – Tutorial
Organising a project in Jira Software
- Organising a project in Jira Software
- Creating a Project in Jira – Tutorial
- Using the Backlog – Tutorial
- Creating a Sprint – Tutorial
Help with Monitoring and Reporting
- Help with Monitoring and Reporting
- Setting up Filters – Tutorial
Managing Specific needs for projects
- Managing Specific needs for projects
- Linked Issues and Sub-tasks – Tutorial
- Jira for Test Management – Tutorial