Jira Primer
Why Skills Boosters
Elevate your team’s potential with Skills Booster classes. These concise, high-impact sessions offer a cost-effective strategy to enhance employee capabilities, drive productivity, and foster long-term engagement. Designed to address specific skill gaps and provide upskilling opportunities, Skills Boosters ensure your workforce remains agile and competitive in an ever-evolving market.
Beyond cost savings, training initiatives like Skills Boosters play a pivotal role in reducing employee turnover—a critical issue that costs U.S. businesses approximately $11 billion annually. By providing career development opportunities, organizations can reduce turnover, strengthen team morale, and cultivate loyalty while supporting succession planning.
- Boost Productivity: Equip your team with practical strategies and insights to work smarter, not harder.
- Reduce Costs: Avoid the significant expenses of recruiting and onboarding by developing in-house talent.
- Foster Engagement: Show your commitment to employee growth and satisfaction, increasing retention and motivation.
- Enhance Innovation: Enable teams to leverage the latest tools and methodologies, from Microsoft Copilot to advanced Agile practices.
Jira Primer Description
This hands-on course will equip you with the skills to set up, navigate, and utilize Jira to manage projects and tasks. From creating and managing issues to using project boards for efficient task transitions, you’ll learn everything you need to maintain oversight and align tasks with strategic objectives. Additionally, you’ll explore using Jira dashboards to monitor project health and team workload, ensuring you’re always on top of your projects. Perfect for those new to Jira or looking to enhance their skills, this course includes practical lab sessions for real-world practice, setting you up for immediate success in an Agile environment.
Objectives
- Setting Up and Organizing Work in Jira: Learn how to configure your workspace and organize your projects to enhance workflow efficiency.
- Creating and Managing Issues: Master the issue creation and management process, a fundamental aspect of project tracking in Jira.
- Navigating Project Boards: Gain fluency in switching between and managing different project boards to ensure seamless task transitions.
- Utilizing Jira Dashboards: Discover how to leverage dashboards for a real-time snapshot of project progress and team workload.
- Hands-on Lab Session: Apply your skills in a controlled environment with access to a hands-on lab, preparing you for practical, real-world application.
Additional Skills Booster Courses
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enhance your productivity across Microsoft applications with AI-powered tools.
- ChatGPT: Dive into the world of AI and learn to optimize content creation, coding, and more with ChatGPT.
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban: Revisit the fundamentals of Agile methodologies and discover advanced strategies for project success.
- Product Backlog, Epics, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria: Master managing and refining your product backlog for clearer communication and predictable delivery.
- Outcomes vs. Outputs: Focus on value-driven project management to ensure that your efforts meet strategic business objectives.
- Metrics: Utilize Agile metrics to track progress, forecast outcomes, and enhance team performance.
- Jira: Get hands-on with Jira to manage projects and tasks effectively, improving oversight and alignment with organizational goals.
- Prioritization and Estimation: Sharpen your skills in prioritizing tasks and estimating efforts to better manage project timelines and resources.
- Facilitation: Boost your facilitation skills to lead more effective meetings and drive meaningful project retrospectives.
- Scaling Agile: Explore strategies to scale Agile practices across multiple teams or departments effectively.
- The Pizza Game – Virtual Agile Team Building: Engage in a virtual team-building activity to foster collaboration and reinforce Agile principles in a fun, interactive setting.
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