Jira+Agile Essential
Description
Agile Foundations & JIRA takes our most popular Agile training 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-led instruction, videos, games, and fun.
Objectives
- 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
Outline
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
- Team Members (Developers, Testers, Business Analysts, Architects…)
- Scrum Masters
- Product Owners
- Leaders, Managers
- Stakeholders