
Learn how to set up your first scrum project in Jira, a versatile online tool for issue tracking, requirements, and agile workflows, including sprints, product backlog, and user stories.
Get started with Jira from scratch, sign up on the Atlassian site, and create a passion project using a scrum template to set up your Jira board.
Navigate the Jira side menu to manage the backlog, board, and workflow stages, guided by the roadmap timeline and sprint outcomes for the product owner's required features.
Name your project in settings and define the Passion sports website's product goal. The site lets users see news, scores, and stats for the world's top seven sports.
Outline a product backlog of user stories for a sports website, including a home page, main pages for each sport, and a help section aligned to the product goal.
Learn how to create epics in Jira, assign stories to them, and structure a backlog by linking menu, body, and side menu components to a home page epic.
Define the definition of done and craft acceptance criteria during product backlog refinement. Break down stories, discuss estimates, and align stakeholders and the scrum master for a productive refinement session.
Refine the backlog by estimating user stories with story points and Fibonacci sizing. Guide the scrum master and product owner to break large stories into smaller ones before the sprint.
Drag issues into the first sprint, define the sprint goal with the product owner, and plan a two-week sprint to deliver menus and a home page layout to access sports.
Translate project goals into actionable tasks by outlining a menu layout, linking items to support pages, and adding images; estimate each task using time tracking in the backlog.
Start a sprint and visualize progress on the sprint backlog task board by moving backlog items through do, in progress, and done, while tracking hours and subtasks.
Access the sprint burndown report by adding a view under reports and selecting the sprint and estimation field. Configure it to use tasks and time, aiming for zero.
Install a burndown chart app from Atlassian marketplace to auto-update when tasks move or time remaining changes, using the great gadgets app by Sonic Bite with a 30-day free trial.
Configure the burn down chart on your Jira dashboard by adding the gadget, selecting burn down, and adjusting time remaining, subtasks, and sprint settings to track progress.
Explore the Atlassian administration structure from organization to site, product, and user access admins, and learn who can configure permissions and access across Jira and Confluence.
Learn how to structure an Atlassian organization with separate sites for development and strategy, set up Confluence and Jira, and assign admins and users from epic to task planning.
Add and invite team members via admin directory or invites, assign roles, and manage access with app controls and invitation links that expire in three weeks.
Create and manage groups in Jira to organize users by role and permissions. Build a stakeholders group for Passion Project, add Jackie Jones, and set project access rules.
Create and apply Jira permission schemes to assign who can move issues, browse projects, and manage sprints, using developer and stakeholder groups in a company-managed project.
Learn how to use project-specific roles in Jira to assign transition permissions and notifications to a subset of users, such as scrum masters, without granting access to an entire group.
Create a project role named issue fixer in Jira, assign it to developers and scrum masters, and grant the transition issue permission to manage issue flow in a project.
Confluence is Atlassian's team collaboration and knowledge base that centralizes project, product, and meeting information in place. Explore spaces, pages, macros, Jira integration, version control, and templates for agile teams.
Add Confluence to your existing Jira account by selecting add product from settings, name the site the same as Jira, and start with pages during the 30-day trial.
Navigate the Confluence top and side menus, switch between apps, spaces, and templates, and use automation, calendars, and analytics to manage pages, spaces, and team workflows.
Explain the difference between team (communal) spaces and personal spaces in Jira and Confluence, including watching, starring, and categorizing spaces for agile projects.
Set up the first team space for the Passion Sports website in Confluence, choose collaboration, and configure initial pages like project plan, decision documentation, and meeting notes.
learn to create a page from scratch in three places, publish under your space, and build a seven-page menu with product, design, and support documentation.
Edit the space home page by uploading a header image, adjusting width and position, and adding a product goal and a team section with six member images in a table.
Learn to build interactive product roadmaps in Confluence using macros, creating lanes for sports like cricket, football, and rugby, mapping releases and go-live moments with adjustable timelines.
Delete unused content to keep the page clean, add a brief introductory paragraph, and customize a single cell with a background color to start taking shape.
Learn to accelerate page creation using Confluence templates for team homepages, meeting notes, and roadmaps; search, preview, and publish templates in the correct space to standardize layouts and workflows.
Learn to create and publish retrospective pages using templates in Confluence, capturing what worked in the last sprint and what to improve next sprint, with date-based naming and organized hierarchy.
Learn how to integrate Confluence with Jira to display in-progress stories, high-priority bugs, and stakeholder requests on product pages, with live links to Jira issues and the product backlog.
Integrate Jira with Confluence to display roadmaps and timelines that update dynamically across epics, stories, and issues, with a single Confluence view for stakeholders.
Explore confluence permissions, including page restrictions, global permissions, and space permissions, and learn open or restricted access, specific users, and edit or view rights.
Explore global permissions in Confluence to manage security settings and control which groups of users can create personal spaces or project spaces, with changes saved and reloaded to apply.
Learn how to assign space permissions in Confluence, manage access for users and groups, and control actions like viewing, adding, deleting pages, blogs, attachments, and content restrictions.
Explore agile principles and practices and learn how agile differs from traditional project delivery. Discover Scrum and XP, agile tools, and best practices to continuously improve as an agile practitioner.
Break a large website into 12 pages as agile iterations, delivering a usable end product monthly with user feedback, high visibility, and minimal documentation.
Three reasons to TAKE THIS COURSE right now!
The unique reasons for taking this course are:
Complete, Concise, Confident Overview of Jira and Conflunce, especially for agile project management - You will be confident that you can set up your first project in any business and especially for Agile project management as the founders intended it, because I only teach accurately based on my experience with the products.
Gain confidence and get your Certificate of completion - I teach you everything you need to know to gain confidence then award you a certificate of completion without going into a class room or spending 1000s of Dollars. I also give you a foundational training you can use for an accredited jira certification or confluence certification.
Bonus: You get a concise overview of Scrum and Agile concepts you can use in your team to deliver projects on time
What are Jira and Confluence?
Jira is a simple tool for managing tasks, requirements, issues, bugs and activities for any team or project. Based on my experience, it has also been the number one tool used to plan Agile and Scrum projects that have delivered on time!
Confluence is a simple tool for documenting, collaborating on your projects. Based on my experience, it has also been the number one tool used to create a Knowledge base for Agile and Scrum projects that have delivered on time!
Who should take is course?
Whether you are a manager, team, scrum master, product owner, team member, business stakeholder or simply someone who wants to understand what makes Jira and Conflunece tick, this is the place to start.
I would like to thank God first, my parents and Atlassian for making this course possible!