Jira for Beginners - Detailed Course to Get Started in Jira

Discover how Jira functions as a project management and issue tracking tool built around agile principles, with support for Waterfall, SixSigma, and PRINCE2.

Discover agile basics for Jira, including team collaboration, self-management, Scrum and Kanban boards, sprint planning, backlogs, and stand-ups.

Learn how Jira uses agile terms like stories and epics, with user stories capturing end user goals and epics grouping multiple stories across sprints.

Clarify Jira's terms of issues and projects in the interface, and show how issues act as configurable containers for fields across stories, tasks, and bugs.

Explore Jira's interface, from the Your work page to projects, issues, filters, dashboards, starred items, and teams, and learn navigation, shortcuts (C, /), app switcher, and personal settings.

Explore the differences between team-managed and company-managed Jira projects, including project scope versus global entities, how permissions and administrators affect creation, and how changes propagate across projects.

Learn to create a team-managed Jira project with a kanban template, set a unique project key, and choose access levels, noting you cannot convert to a company-managed project later.

Navigate a team-managed Jira project by exploring the agile board, roadmap timeline, calendar, lists, forms, goals, and issue search, with Bitbucket, GitHub, Confluence, and shortcuts integration.

Learn to create issues in Jira team-managed projects using the create button or C shortcut, and understand the project–issue type hierarchy and required fields like summary and reporter.

Learn to add team members to a team-managed Jira project, assign roles from member to administrator or elevated member, and manage access and permissions.

Learn to customize issue types in a team managed Jira project by adding a story and a new feature type, configuring fields, defaults, and required settings for accurate tracking.

Configure the Jira agile board for a team-managed project by filtering by assignee and unassigned, grouping by assignee or subtasks, and tailoring columns, statuses, and workflows with custom filters.

Switch a team-managed Jira project from Kanban to Scrum by adjusting features, enabling backlog, sprints, and estimation, and using story points to estimate work.

Learn to use the timeline view in a team-managed Jira project, apply filters, create epics and child stories, adjust start and due dates, and track progress with color-coded bars.

Learn to use the calendar view in Jira to visualize start and due dates, drag to adjust schedules, and filter to show only dated issues.

Explore how the list view in Jira's team-managed projects operates, with the search box, assignee filters, Excel-like formatting, and sharing customized lists with teammates.

Learn how forms in Jira collect information and auto-create new feature issues, customize fields, share access, and manage permissions to gather feature ideas for the project.

Explore Jira's issue navigator, apply powerful filters, view and edit issue fields, and review history, comments, and work logs; learn to create and pin fields for team-managed projects.

Identify how to create a goal in Atlassian home. Link Jira issues and epics across projects to a central objective and track progress, noting that goals are in beta.

Run a daily stand-up in a Jira team-managed project using the agile board. Move issues from To Do to In Progress to Done and flag blockers with links.

Create a company managed project in Jira by selecting the Scrum template, name it, set a unique key, and assign Maxwell as project administrator.

Discover how company-managed Jira projects are organized, resemble team-managed projects, and use Scrum templates with sprints and backlog, plus explore reports, components, releases, and multiple Agile boards.

Create a kanban board in a Jira project, select the kanban type, apply a project filter, name the board, and choose its location within a company-managed project.

Explore a company-managed Kanban board in Jira, uncovering board features, filters, grouping, search, insights, view settings, and permission-based access while viewing as a non-admin user.

Learn how to set up and manage board permissions in a company-managed Jira project, including adding a board administrator to enable Agile board configuration.

Configure Jira boards by adjusting general settings and filters to display chosen issues across projects, map statuses to columns, and use swimlanes and quick filters with JQL.

Compare scrum and kanban boards in a company-managed Jira project, and understand permissions, board administration, backlog setup, sprints, and releases.

Learn how Jira uses releases and components to group issues, track versions, and filter work on boards, including front-end, back-end, and API tasks.

Explore how Jira workflows control status transitions and post functions, enabling automatic assignment for graphics tasks. Publish and reuse workflows across projects using schemes.

Explore how Jira schemes connect workflows and issue types across projects, allowing you to apply, map statuses, and propagate changes efficiently.

Create a custom issue type in Jira and attach it to a project via an issue type scheme, then migrate issues and remap fields when switching schemes.

Create a custom field in Jira as a select list named feature location with options websites, mobile app, social, other; assign it to the default screen and adjust its layout.

Explore how to build automation in Jira using triggers and actions, including templates and project settings, to email Valerie when an issue with more than five story points is completed.

Explore Jira's administration areas, including billing, user management, apps, issues, projects, and products, and see how Atlassian links Jira with Confluence.

Explore Jira system settings to understand general configuration, customize default dashboards and the look and feel, and use audit logs and the permission helper for troubleshooting.

Define clear project scope and manage stakeholders to align goals and expectations. Coordinate time, resources, cost, risk, and quality, guided by a formal project charter.