JIRA Essentials & Agile Mindset

Agile Foundatations & Jira

Takes our most popular Agile foundations course for Agile teams and incorporates one of the most popular Agile tools: JIRA.  If you’re new to Agile and need to know the basics or enhance your knowledge with hands-on experience with JIRA, this course is for you.

This course emphasizes practical agile principles and demonstrates how Agile can integrate into real projects with – JIRA. Participants are given a comprehensive overview of the Agile essentials and learn about the different Agile frameworks: Lean, Scrum, XP, and Kanban. Our workshop uses various learning tools, including hands-on demonstrations, participant lead instruction, videos, games, and a lot of fun.

*Note a 2 day version of this class is also available. Bolded items are not included in the 2-day course.

Custom Courses are available.

What you’ll Lean

• What is Agile and why should you use it?
• Agile Lifecycle
• What are Scrum and Kanban and when to use them?
• Agile roles & responsibilities
• Writing and maintaining practical requirements using user stories
• Managing agile projects using JIRA Software
• Managing project backlog in JIRA
• Managing iterations/sprints in JIRA
• Managing releases & roadmaps
• Creating transparency in JIRA
• Managing reports & metrics
• Customizing Dashboards in JIRA

learning Objectives

Agile Overview

• • Overview of Agile
  • Why Agile
  • Agile Manifesto & Principle
  • Workshop: Team Agile Manifesto & Principles Retrospective
  • Agile versus Waterfall
  • The Agile Team
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Workshop(s)

Scrum Overview

• • Agile Delivery Lifecycle
  • Scrum vs. Kanban
  • Agile Requirements Levels
  • Progressive Elaboration
  • Features, Epics, Stories, Tasks, Bugs
  • Acceptance Criteria (BDD)
  • Workshop: Defining User Stories
  • Definition of Ready (DoR)
  • Definition of Done (DoD)
  • Estimation: Affinity Estimation
  • Estimation: Planning Poker
  • Prioritization Techniques
  • Workshop: Practice Scrum
  • Planning a Release

 JIRA Primer

• • Introduction to JIRA
  • Setting up a Real-Work Project in Jira
  • JIRA Components & Screen Navigation
  • Tracking business value and size (effort)
  • Understanding Jira Fields
  • Customizing JIRA Work Item Screens
  • Customizing JIRA boards
  • Advanced: Customize workflows

Iteration\Sprint Planning

• • Definition of Ready
  • Breaking down user stories into Tasks
  • JIRA Workshop – Capacity Planning

Closing out the Iteration\Sprint

• • Iteration\Sprint Retrospectives & Demonstrations
  • JIRA Workshop – Closing the Iteration

Managing Release and Versions

• • Release & Roadmap Management
  • Managing Dependencies in JIRA
  • Creating traceability using versions in JIRA
  • JIRA Workshop – Create a Roadmap

JIRA Basic Queries

• • ‘JQL’ Filter Overview
    • Saving Filters
    • Sharing filters
    • JIRA Workshop – Filters

JIRA Advanced Queries & Reports & Dashboards

• • Reporting & Metrics Overview
    • Metrics: Burn-up Charts
    • Metrics: Burn-Down Charts
    • Metrics: Additional Helpful Metrics
  • JIRA ‘Dashboard’ Overview
    • Advanced Dashboards: Using Gadgets
    • JIRA Workshop – Create custom Dashboards 

Who Should Attend

• Development Teams
• Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Scrum Masters
• Executives
• Leaders
• Managers
• Stakeholders