Introduction to Jira: Step-by-Step Guidance for Agile Teams

This course is an introduction to Jira project management for Agile teams. It is designed to give you step-by-step guidance on how to configure, customize, manage, facilitate, and track progress against your Agile team backlogs and Agile team execution. At the same time, it will help you identify and avoid common pitfalls that can make Jira’s extensive features and configurations a challenge to work with. By the end of this course, you’ll feel comfortable leading an Agile team in Jira, from configuration through executing a full sprint, armed with tips and tricks to make the software easier to work with.

What you’ll learn and how to apply it

• A better understanding of how to use Jira’s extensive features and configurations
• A better understanding of how to configure the project, create the backlog, track, facilitate, and report metrics for an agile team’s execution within Jira
• The ability to perform the basic administrative, backlog management, and team management duties that exist in Jira to successfully lead an Agile team
• The ability to perform essential backlog management skills to lead an agile team product and incident management process
• A better understanding of key Jira terms and concepts that are often misunderstood
• Knowledge to ensure that teams only use features that add value to their workflow
• Skills to help teams avoid slowdowns and bottlenecks

This course is for you because

• You are a waterfall team lead interested in learning the basics of Agile teaming in Jira.
• You are a developer within an Agile team that wants to be more proficient in backlog management in Jira.
• You are a product manager that is interested in taking your product management skills to the next level.
• You are a project manager transitioning into an Agile team lead role for a team that uses Jira.
• You are an Agile team lead that is being asked to create and configure Jira Projects.
• You are an Agile coach looking to expand your knowledge into Agile team tooling.
• You want to become more knowledgeable about the relationship between Agile practices and Agile tools.
• You want to become proficient in the basics of Jira project administration.

Prerequisites

• Access to a Jira instance or ability to gain access to a Jira instance
• Basic knowledge of team process management whether in an Agile or Waterfall Environment