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Atlassian Jira Administration part 1 and part 2

  • Course Code AATLJIRS
  • Duration 2 days

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

  • Company Event

    Event at company

  • Public Classroom

    Traditional Classroom Learning

  • Virtual Learning

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Course Overview

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The course will look at basic JIRA and agile concepts and cover the different out-of-the-box actions and functions available to JIRA Software use.

This Agile with Atlassian JIRA Software training course gets you to grips with project management within JIRA. Make it a 2 day course by combining with JIRA Software Administration - simply enquire.

Company Events

These events can be delivered exclusively for your company at our locations or yours, specifically for your delegates and your needs. The Company Events can be tailored or standard course deliveries.

Course Schedule

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Target Audience

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This course is ideal for users who are new to JIRA Software and agile (whole day). Users familiar with JIRA will find the course runs quickly as some topics will be “skipped”.

Course Objectives

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At the end of the Agile with JIRA Software training course students will understand basic Atlassian JIRA concepts and will be able to use JIRA to work with issues and provide change tracking and control for software development projects using agile methodologies

Course Content

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Module 1: Agile Concepts

Overview and introduction to JIRA Software

  • Introduction to JIRA Software

High level concepts of JIRA Software and Agile development terminology

  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Backlogs
  • Sprints

Lab Exercises Module 1

  • Why Agile? : Battleships

Module 2: Introduction to JIRA

  • Sign up for JIRA
  • Create an agile board
  • Explore the interface

Lab Exercises Module 2

Overview of interface – using Sample Projects

  • Study the sample Scrum project
  • Study the sample Kanban project
  • Understand the JIRA UI

Module 3: Creating a Backlog

  • Issue types
  • Epics
  • Stories
  • Estimating

Lab Exercises Module 3

  • Create Epics
  • Create Stories
  • View Versions
  • Rank the backlog

Module 4: Agile Planning

  • Scrum: Sprint Planning/ Estimating/ Capacity
  • Kanban

Lab Exercises Module 4

  • Create a spring
  • Estimate
  • Plan a sprint
  • Start a sprint

Module 5: The Visual Board

  • Intro to workflows
  • Mapping to board columns
  • Constraints
  • Sub tasks

Lab Exercises Module 5

  • Identify your current status
  • Identify possible transitions
  • Progressing Issues
  • Working with sub tasks

Module 6: Working with Tasks

This is a free form module. What other tasks/actions do the attendees want to be able to complete on a daily basis?

For example:

  • Logging work
  • Flagging as important
  • Attaching files
  • Requesting notifications
  • Sharing with others
  • Copying
  • Setting due dates
  • Labels

Lab Exercises Module 6

  • Free form – facilitator demos requests and students can then try for themselves.

Module 7 (Optional): Introduction to Board Configuration

  • Configuring boards
  • Swimlanes
  • Columns
  • Colours

Lab Exercises Module 7

  • Configuring boards
  • Swimlanes
  • Columns
  • Colours

Module 8: Searching

  • Searching
  • Filters
  • Subscriptions

Lab Exercises

  • Example searches
  • Filters
  • Subscriptions

Module 9: Reporting

  • JIRA reporting
  • Agile reporting
  • Dashboards

Lab Exercises Module 9

  • Accessing Agile reports
  • Making use of Agile reports
  • Configure a dashboard
  • Create a wallboard

Course Prerequisites

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  • Access to a laptop and an active internet connection
  • No previous knowledge required