Jira Essentials 2025 | Complete Guide for Beginners
What you'll learn
- Confidently set up Jira projects for any type of work, from Agile product development to waterfall project planning
- Set up filters, Scrum and Kanban boards, and dashboards for effective project tracking and reporting
- Read and make sense out of various reports and graphs to monitor project progress and identify areas for improvement
- Implement advanced filtering, workflows management, and project custom settings to streamline project planning and execution
- Improve team productivity and performance by enhancing their Jira setup
- Create and modify issues to efficiently manage project tasks and workflows
- Integrate multiple tools, plugins, and add-ons to further enhance Jira's functionality
- Understand project settings in Jira and project customization
- Use epics, labels, components and fix versions to organize work
- Learn tips and tricks to easily manipulate issues and organize product backlog
- Troubleshoot the common problems
Requirements
- No prior knowledge or experience is required, but it would be beneficial for students to understand some basics of Agile, especially Scrum and Kanban
Description
NEW for 2025: Updated lessons to reflect the latest Jira UI and feature changes!
Now with multilingual subtitles: English, French, German, Hindi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Ukrainian
AI Assistant added: Get real-time help with ChatGPT+ (subscription required)
Used by Over 65,000 Companies Worldwide—Jira is the skill to have in 2025
Whether you’re already using Jira and want to sharpen your skills or you’re preparing for a new role that requires Jira expertise, this course will get you there—fast.
Designed for professionals, team leads, and job seekers alike, this is more than a tutorial. It's your complete learning path to becoming confident, capable, and in demand with Jira.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Jira setup, simplified. Create and configure projects and issues like a pro
Master filters and boards. Build custom dashboards, Scrum and Kanban boards to fit your team
Reports and insights. Make data-driven decisions using Jira’s powerful reporting tools
Go beyond basics. Explore advanced filters, workflows, and project configurations for real-world agility
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
Step-by-step hands-on Jira configuration and real-life scenarios
Proven productivity tips from a seasoned Agile coach and Jira superadmin
Actionable techniques to increase team alignment, reduce waste, and get the most out of Jira
WHY THIS COURSE?
Jira is powerful—but it can also be overwhelming. From messy boards to confusing workflows, poor setup often leads to frustration and inefficiency.
This course is your shortcut to clarity and confidence, taught by an enterprise Agile coach with over 10 years of experience, including managing one of the world’s largest Jira instances.
You’ll not only learn how to use Jira—you’ll learn how to make it work for you and your team.
TAKE CONTROL OF JIRA
Stay ahead with updated content that reflects the latest changes
Learn in your own language with newly added multilingual subtitles
Get personalized support with the built-in AI assistant (ChatGPT+)
Join thousands of students who’ve transformed their Jira experience—and sign up today to make Jira your most powerful project management ally.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for everyone who has to use Jira for their day-to-day work and would like to become more comfortable with the software
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 26,035 Reviews
- 141,366 Students
- 14 Courses
Having nearly 10 years of experience as Agile practitioner, Product Owner and Agile coach, I have worked with hundreds of teams to help them become more customer-centric, efficient and outcome-driven.
I used to work for NTT Communications, Rakuten, Indeed and most recently - for McKinsey & Company Japan, driving large scale Agile transformations across multiple industries and locations as an Enterprise Agile Coach. Now I have my own coaching and consulting business, Agile Apothecary (see "website")
I am passionate about teaching and coaching - nothing can be compared with the joy of helping someone to understand a new concept or to improve the way they are doing something.
I live and work in Tokyo, Japan and do a lot of snowboarding and scuba diving in my free time.