Introduction To Jira

Tags: JIRA

Everything you need to know to get started with Atlassian's powerful agile project management and issue tracker tool.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.5

- Understand Jira's core features and how it works.
- Use Jira more productively.
- Benefit from Jira as a team leader or manager.

What you'll learn

Understand Jira's core features and how it works.

Use Jira more productively.

Benefit from Jira as a team leader or manager.

Set Jira up for your team or company as an administrator.

* Requirements

* While you don't have to have JIRA to watch this course
* if you want to follow along you'll need either a Jira Core or Jira Software account. Cloud subscription preferred.

Description

This Introduction to Jira course will get you up to speed on how to be more productive and effective in Jira. With six hours of content, we'll focus on the three main types of users in Jira. The modules in this course are broken up for each of these types, so no matter which one you are you'll be able to quickly access the things you need.

We'll start by covering some core concepts and terms you'll need to know about both agile and Jira before diving into the software itself.

After that, we'll look at Jira from an end user's perspective. What are the key things you'll need to know as someone who's just using Jira at your company? That's what we'll look at in the second module.

When you're a team leader or manager using Jira, there's some things you can do to help your team be more effective. So we'll look at some of these things in the third module.

Finally, as a Jira administrator there's a lot of ways you can help your company by setting them up for success in Jira. In the fourth module, we'll look at Jira from an administrator's perspective.

Now even though this course is organized for different types of users, I wanted to make it so no matter what type of user you are you'll benefit from watching all of it if you wanted. For example, even if you're only using Jira as an end user you can find it beneficial to understand how Jira workflows and processes work so you can "speak the language" when you're asking your Jira administrator for something.

Who this course is for:

This Jira course is meant for three main types of people: Jira users who want to be able to use it better. Team leaders and managers who want to take advantage of its features for their team and, finally, administrators who need to set Jira up for their teams and companies.
This Jira course is NOT meant to be an end-all, one-stop-shop for everything you'll need to know to customize every feature in JIRA. There's just too many variables to include everything, so instead we're focusing on the core concepts and features to get you up to speed quickly.

Course content

6 sections • 59 lectures

Course Introduction 3 lectures

Course introduction Preview 01:25

What is Jira? Preview 01:32

How to use this course successfully Preview 05:57

Terms & Concepts 6 lectures

Section introduction Preview 01:12

Agile basics Preview 10:34

Stories and epics Preview 06:48

Issues and projects Preview 07:01

Next-gen projects Preview 05:08

Versions of Jira Preview 04:42

Basics of Using Jira 14 lectures

Section introduction Preview 00:55

Jira's interface overview Preview 11:56

Looking at projects in Jira Preview 12:33

Creating issues Preview 06:26

Searching for issues Preview 10:46

Overview of the issue detail view Preview 09:46

Working with filters Preview 04:32

Scrum agile board overview Preview 06:47

Continuing scrum agile board overview Preview 11:30

Kanban agile board overview Preview 06:32

Continuing kanban agile board overview Preview 08:36

How next-gen projects work Preview 08:18

Working with epics in classic projects Preview 06:43

Working with epics in next-gen projects Preview 06:59

Jira for Managers & Team Leads 11 lectures

Section introduction Preview 01:46

Working with teams Preview 04:26

Creating a scrum board Preview 03:05

Editing a scrum board Preview 09:06

Creating a kanban board Preview 03:12

Editing a kanban board Preview 14:16

Working with dashboards Preview 07:16

Saving filters for your team Preview 02:59

Bulk creating issues Preview 06:32

Bulk editing issues Preview 07:28

Finding reports in Jira Preview 06:50

Jira for Administrators 13 lectures

Section introduction Preview 00:52

How users work in Jira Preview 10:24

Creating a new project Preview 04:30

Project administration overview Preview 16:34

Jira administration overview Preview 07:55

Understanding schemes Preview 04:51

Creating a new issue type Preview 03:20

Creating custom fields Preview 02:21

Working with screens Preview 08:46

Understanding the concept of workflows Preview 02:38

Workflows in Jira Preview 09:04

Using resolutions Preview 06:55

Course summary and where to go from here Preview 02:22

Bonus: Udemy Q&A 12 lectures

How to get issues to show up on scrum and kanban boards at the same time Preview 15:16

How to move issues between projects Preview 10:20

How to show the search dropdown boxes Preview 04:40

In this video we'll answer a question from Ken in the Q&A section of this course. Ken says he's not able to see the dropdown boxes in JIRA search, so we'll look at how to show those if they're not there.

Understanding "Automatic" assignees Preview 04:05

In this video we'll answer a question from Steven in the Q&A section of this course. Steven is wondering what it means when you assign an issue to "Automatic".

How to tag issues from a sprint with a specific version Preview 04:36

In this video, we'll answer a question from Saurabh on how to update issues from a sprint and associate it with a version.

How to fix an error when adding transitions in a workflow Preview 11:17

In this video we'll answer a question from Gerald in the course Q&A section, which you can see here: https://www.udemy.com/introduction-to-jira/learn/v4/questions/1983788

Also referenced is this documentation:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/cannot-add-transitions-or-delete-steps-in-draft-workflows-203392961.html