
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.
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.
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.
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.
This course is a fast-track and concise guide to get all the essential skills you require to successfully set up and run an agile project in the JIRA software. The course gives a firm foundational understanding of project management methodologies, specifically, the Traditional/Waterfall methodology as well as the Agile methodology. The course further delves into the Kanban and Scrum frameworks to lay the basic theoretical foundation on which the JIRA tool is based. The course takes a step-by-step approach to delve into the key features of the tool commonly used on projects. It further goes to give a practical hands-on training on the JIRA software tool for modeling, planning, running, and tracking issues on your project. This is done by guiding students to access the free cloud version of the JIRA software. The lessons are well paced to allow students to have a go at the lessons learnt in the course. Some of the lessons covered in this course include but not limited to:
1. Creating and Configuring Scrum and Kanban Projects
2. Configuring the Workflow in Kanban
3. Exploring Issues in detail
4. Creating a Sprint
5. Reporting in JIRA etc.
As a bonus, earn three (3) PDUs towards the renewal of your Project Management Institute (PMI) Certifications on completion of the course.