Practical Jira : Project With Agile / Scrum Methodology

Explore how Jira supports agile project management with Scrum, covering product and sprint backlogs, sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, and retrospective.

Get started with Jira cloud by creating a Jira Software account on Atlassian, signing up with Gmail, and naming your project using a Scrum template in a team-managed setup.

Set up a Jira project board to track tasks and statuses with default columns: to do, in progress, and done. Add team members and customize columns.

Learn to set up and customize a Jira project board, rename and add columns like uat and sit, sort them, and manage project settings, features, and team access.

Explore how Jira issues capture tasks with status and assignee, estimate work with story points, and manage backlogs, sprints, and subtasks, including user stories, dependencies, and BDD-style acceptance criteria.

Create and manage Jira user stories in the backlog, customize fields, add subtasks with labels, clone and link stories, and use comments with mentions for collaboration.

Master the Jira issue navigator and its functions, including bulk updates, csv imports, and searching with simple methods or JQL. Activate the navigator in project settings > features.

Import issues from csv by mapping columns to jira fields, validate before import, and bulk update to add comments or adjust assignees; search and export issues using the issue navigator.

Learn how epics group related user stories into features, break them into subtasks for sprints, and align them with a product roadmap for releases and control.

Create epics in Jira, assign user stories as children, and view them in the epic panel and backlog; use the issue navigator and bulk update to link stories to epics.

Learn how to create custom issue types in Jira for non-feature work like training or documentation, when the tracking process differs, and set them up from project settings.

Create a custom Jira issue type, such as 'Manual Process', configure fields like priority, assignee, labels, and due date, and add it to epic and backlog via the epic menu.

Discover how the Jira issue navigator enables complex searches with JQL, a SQL-like language, while noting that basic search covers daily tasks.

Navigate to the issue navigator, open JQL, and use auto complete to find stories assigned to a user, sorted from oldest; consult the bonus & references for details.

Explore agile sprint planning, fixed timeframes, and product backlog grooming to select stories, estimate with story points, and define clear narratives and acceptance criteria.

Master Jira sprint management by moving issues between backlogs and starting the sprint on the sprint board. Assign story points to tasks and subtasks to guide planning.

Track sprint progress by updating issues on the Jira board, including comments and status changes, to keep the team aligned and ready for input reports.

Navigate the sprint board to view a user's issues and subtasks, drag issues to columns, and update details, status, or assignees, with completion achieved when moved to done.