Jira Foundations 2026: Agile Project Execution for Teams

Explore the differences between the old and new Jira UI to build situational awareness, as this module previews the interface before actual Jira tasks begin.

Discover the new Jira UI with a giant search bar front and center powered by Atlassian intelligence, while the left navigation relocates top controls.

Explore Jira UI changes and sidebar navigation, enabling you to customize what appears in the left panel. Save your selections to tailor filters, dashboards, plans, and teams for your workflow.

Explore Jira's new project-level user interface changes, where expanding projects reveals boards you must open to access a project, making navigation more counterintuitive but essential to master.

Jira UI changes recap highlights the shift from old to new interfaces, notes regional rollouts and the similar look but different feel as users adapt.

Navigate the Jira project UI, confirm the software template for scrum, backlog, boards, epics, and story points, then review planning, development, and Confluence links.

Navigate the Jira side panel views: calendar shows start and end dates, list reveals the full hierarchy, and forms serve as intake gateways for submitting work items without a license.

The issues view displays all project work regardless of status, complements backlog and board views that show unfinished work, and enables targeted searches like bugs in progress assigned to Joe.

Compare scrum and Kanban in Jira projects, showing that Kanban is a visual board with limited planning and a work-in-progress limit, while scrum provides a dedicated backlog and sprint-driven board.

Explore how subtasks function as checklist-like items tied to a story, task, or bug to ensure delivery and prevent sprint closure while subtasks remain open.

Jump into JIRA to create projects, and learn to guide your team, plan and track work, and monitor overall progress across modules.

Create work items in Jira with the create button, select work type, and fill required fields with a title, where the summary equals the title, in a top-down workflow.

Think top down by starting with an epic in Jira, decompose it into stories, and automatically establish parent-child relationships, avoiding manual linking.

Decompose epics into actionable stories using AI-assisted suggestions in Jira, enabling teams to structure work efficiently. Explore practical steps like designing dark mode UI components, updating CSS, testing, and accessibility.

Organize the backlog by breaking epics into stories and tasks. Track dates and dependencies to translate strategic epics into actionable work.

Learn to move into the backlog, organize work, and lay out a plan in a spread for the team. Prepare to start executing and delivering on sprint commitments.

Complete the sprint by ensuring all work items reach the done column, update statuses to avoid inflated numbers, and plan the next sprint with carryover and iterations.

Deep dive into dashboards, metrics, and reporting in Jira, featuring out-of-the-box capabilities and using JQL to build custom dashboards and reports.

The cumulative flow diagram shows trends in to do, in progress, and done items, revealing whether work inflow keeps pace with delivery on kanban boards.

Explore how jpql, the Jira query language, lets you search for data in Jira, build examples, and create a dashboard to visualize the results.

Celebrate completing Jira Foundations 2025 and solidify your understanding of how Jira works for your team. Apply these fundamentals to your organization or any project, and explore more Udemy courses.