JIRA + Agile Master Course (Earn 3 PDUs)

Explain how the waterfall methodology uses a linear, phase-driven process, with requirements guiding design, then implementation, verification, and maintenance after formal sign-off and documentation.

Explore the shortfalls of the traditional waterfall method, from lengthy timelines and late changes to costly changes or scrapping the project, and see how agility delivers faster value.

Discover agile methodology as an iterative, incremental software approach, exploring frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, and Crystal, and manifesto values of individuals and interactions, customer collaboration, and responding to change.

Explore the Kanban framework for visualizing work on a board, identifying bottlenecks, and limiting work in progress to ensure a smooth, continuous flow of value in agile teams.

Meet the scrum team: a cross-functional, self-organizing group including the product owner, the scrum master, and the development team, driving backlog items and delivering sprint increments.

Explore the scrum framework as a lightweight method that delivers value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Prioritize the product backlog, plan sprints, and deliver increments.

Explore why Jira supports agile teams in delivering business value quickly through Scrum, enabling continuous feature delivery, transparent collaboration, and remote work across projects.

Understand how a project becomes a collection of issues, including epics, stories, tasks, bugs, and sub-tasks, with epics as the mother of all issues and sub-tasks under a parent.

Sign up for JIRA Software on the Atlassian cloud, explore pricing, and start the sign up by choosing Google or another email, then verify your email.

Create a Jira project using the combined template, choose between team managed and company managed projects, name the project, and set the key to drive issue naming.

In Jira, assign the project administrator by opening project settings, selecting people, and granting Humphrey administrator rights; set him as project lead in project details and save.

Create issues fast on the combined kanban board by adding stories, tasks, or subtasks, with descriptions, attachments, reporters, assignees, priorities, tags, and linked or blocked relationships.

Track how notifications and mentions alert the assignee in Jira issues, showing how Amy receives updates, views comments, and watches issues on the board and backlog.

Create subtext to break down backlog issues on the combined board, link them to user stories, and configure notifications with email prompts for updates.

Learn how to assign starting points and estimate work in Jira, considering complexity and risk, applying Fibonacci-based scales, sprint planning, and displaying story points on boards.

Log work on an issue to track time spent, using time tracking on the kanban board to record 30 minutes against an original estimate and show remaining time and progress.

Organize issue cards on the combined board by adjusting the card layout, removing extra fields, and enabling progress indicators to visualize work over time.

Learn how to organize issue cards using board and vote settings, customize the displayed fields such as creator and assignee, and apply color coding by issue type to improve clarity.

Master the kanban workflow by managing a Jira board's columns from backlog to selected for development and in progress, setting work-in-progress limits, and tracking subtasks to done.

Learn how to separate the product backlog from other columns by moving issues to a combined backlog, enabling the product owner to refine and prioritize independently.

Configure five kanban columns, add color, and drag to arrange them, then adjust the workflow to allow transitions from any status to the new column.

Create a new scrum project by selecting the scrum template, navigating the project creation workflow, and using admin accounts for company-managed projects to enable easy issue tracking.

Assign Humphrey as project administrator and project lead in scrum by opening project settings, adding him under people as administrator, then setting him as lead with default for all issues.

Learn to create issues in a scrum project by clicking create, filling summaries, assigning to a team member, setting estimates, and managing sprints, with similarities to a standard project.

Learn how to create a sprint in Jira by refining the backlog, planning the sprint backlog, estimating story points and hours, and starting a two-week sprint with increments.

Create a sample scrum project with preloaded data to practice backlog, sprints, and moving issues to the done column, enabling you to generate insights from a ready-made project.

Learn to gain sprint insight with the burndown chart in Jira, using reports to visualize work, track story points, and compare projected versus actual progress across working days.

Assess sprint progress with sprint reports that provide a concise overview and show a list of completed and incomplete issues linked to stories.

Learn how velocity charts plot the amount of work estimated against the amount of complaints in recent sprints, revealing trends in commitment and delivery to guide next sprint planning.

Explore how to perform quick searches in Jira, compare basic, quick, and advanced search, and use the search gear to view recent items and filters for locating issues with comments.

Discover how to perform a basic search in Jira by using the search box, reaching the global search page, and filtering items by assigned user or unassigned status and done.

Explore advanced search in Jira using a general query language to locate issues across projects, with autocomplete, switchable to basic search, and filter by project, status, assignee, and creation date.

Learn to use and create filters in Jira for safe, convenient searches; save default and custom views, and manage permissions so the whole team can access shared issues.

Create a quick filter on Jira project boards named 'resolved issues' with JQL 'assignee = current user and status = done', and apply it to show my resolved issues.

Explore how epics in Jira and agile projects function as large issues containing stories and tasks; create epics via the roadmap, set timelines, priorities, estimates, colors, and dependencies.

Explore how to manage epics and issues on a kanban board, create epics and user stories via the roadmap, and organize work with swim lanes and backlogs to track progress.

Explore epics workflow with a roadmap and progress indicators, visualizing epic progress through issues, backlog, and kanban boards, including combined backlog and epics panel navigation for development, testing, and done.

Configure and customize Jira dashboards by copying the default dashboard, editing gadgets, and choosing layouts. Add, delete, and arrange gadgets with auto refresh options to display real-time project updates.