Description

This Introduction to JIRA course is intended to be to get you up to speed on how to be more productive and effective in JIRA.

Who is the target audience?

This JIRA course is meant for three main types of people: JIRA users who want to be able to use it better. Team leaders and managers who want to take advantage of its features for their team and, finally, administrators who need to set JIRA up for their teams and companies.

There’s just too many variables to include everything, so instead we’re focusing on the core concepts and features to get you up to speed quickly.

JIRA is a very comprehensive tool and one of the most popular agile project management tools out there. When used and configured correctly, it will help you work smarter, faster and more efficiently.

WHY TAKE THE COURSE:

Contains the most amount of content out of all dedicated JIRA courses on Udemy
Learn the most important characteristics of Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies

Real-world examples including
How to manage your daily task-list via a daily scrum-based process
Configure permissions and projects for internal team members, as well as external members (Eg: consultants, customers etc)

JIRA allows you to create stories and epics for agile projects – learn how to create another issue type used in agile called Spike and create custom screens, fields and workflows for this new issue type.
Modify the default software development workflow to include steps for QA

How to manage multiple teams working on the same projects via multiple agile boards catered to each team
Never-ending support – I am only a message away from answering any questions you might have

STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE:

Agile Concepts – Goes into detail with Scrum and Kanban methodologies. By the end of the section, you’ll have a full refresher on these methodologies as I made sure I hit the most important notes when it comes to how they work.
Working within an agile team – Get your first look at navigating the Jira user interface and learn how to create issues, work on issues through the agile boards, search for issues, create custom dashboards to see whats happening in Jira and other functions beneficial to any agile team member.

Leading an agile team – Configuring and managing agile boards, creating and maintaining the backlog as well as starting and ending sprints and creating releases.

Real-world examples, scenarios and bonus content – This is where I show you how I use Jira to track and forecast my personal day-to-day tasklist, while using a daily scrum-based process, among other examples.