JIRA Foundations with Rovo AI: AI Enabled Project Execution

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.

Explore Jira's new UI where navigation items shift from the left side to a top horizontal bar, with customizable views and a flexible, potentially uneven user experience.

See how the new Jira UI moves project settings behind left-side ellipses, enabling admins to rename, rekey, assign leads, and manage permissions, while surfacing project type metadata.

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.

Explore the left panel of Jira, including summary, timeline, backlog, board, and calendar, and learn to navigate between board, backlog, and timeline with ease.

Explore how Jira backlog organizes epics and stories, with the bottom backlog feeding the sprint, and learn to plan and assign work from backlog into a sprint.

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.

Explore how the Jira side panel relates to goals, keep goals basic, and observe that epics connect to a goal while Atlassian refactors goals and rethinks how Atlassian home works.

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.

Learn how epics in agile act as big user stories that group and decompose work in Jira, serving as containers to organize, prioritize, and track progress toward major features.

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.

Recap agile fundamentals and Jira concepts, defining epic, story, task, bug, and subtask, and clarifying what a scrum board is about. Prepare for hands-on Jira as you encounter quirks ahead.

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.

Create epics and stories with just enough detail to reach the next milestone, avoiding a full waterfall task list, then iterate with Scrum in Jira.

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.

Plan a rough timeline for epics and deliverables using the timeline view, assign dates, color-code epics, and align with a product owner to set a north star for sprint planning.

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.

Rank the backlog to surface items that meet the definition of ready for sprint planning by moving items up or down, prioritizing top backlog items.

Rank your Jira backlog by priority and due date, filtering by epics, prioritizing green items as non-negotiables, and using epic due dates and priority fields to guide the order.

Enable releases in a team-managed Jira project to create versions, assign fixed versions to epics and stories, and plan releases visible in the timeline for sprint planning.

Identify an active sprint in Jira by verifying tasks and stories on the board and the countdown timer, then use start sprint and complete sprint buttons while updating statuses.

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.

Explore built-in reports, learn to locate data, and build customized dashboards tailored to your needs.

Use the burnup report to forecast finish dates by comparing backlog work with team velocity, noting that Scrum targets move with new discoveries.

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.

The Jira summary view automatically appears on every board, generated by Atlassian, showing completed, updated, created, and due issues, a status breakdown, and epics progress.

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.