Creating And Running An Agile Project In Jira

Tags: JIRA

Plan, track, and release great software

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.4

- Create your first project (and manage existing projects) in JIRA
- Manage your board view and backlogs in JIRA
- Run a Scrum Sprint Project in JIRA

What you'll learn

Create your first project (and manage existing projects) in JIRA

Manage your board view and backlogs in JIRA

Run a Scrum Sprint Project in JIRA

Create reports (including topic-based reports)

Forecast using versions

Search for issues with JQL

Execute bulk changes to issues

Create custom filters

dashboards

and widgets

Create epics

stories

bugs

and tasks.

* Requirements

* You will need to be familiar with the basics of JIRA
* from both the end user and administrator perspectives. Experience with workflows
* custom fields
* and other administrative functions of JIRA will be useful.

Description

JIRA Software is an agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, Kanban, or your own unique flavor. From agile boards to reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool. JIRA Software brings the power of the agile methodology to Atlassian's JIRA Software.

With this course, you will dive straight into the action, exploring critical agile terminologies and concepts in the context of JIRA Software. You will learn how to plan, track, and release great software. This course will teach you how to choose a workflow, set issue types and assign permissions.You will learn to stay connected with your team from anywhere to ensure great development.You will also be able to use JIRA Dashboards to broadcast your project results to all stakeholders so everyone is aligned.

By the end of this course, you will have developed a great working knowledge of JIRA Software, thus making your project management much more efficient.

This course uses JIRA 7, while not the latest version available, it provides relevant and informative content for legacy users of JIRA.

About the Author

David Harned is a PMO Director for Monotype and is a motivated and inspired leader of Agile thinkers, driving adoption within enterprises that have numerous parallel-distributed, highly autonomous, and self-organized teams. He is a design, usability, and customer experience advocate. He has managed developer group building in the e-commerce retail business. David is an Agile believer and uses Scrum, Kanban, and Lean as well as hybrid approaches for project management. David is an expert in the implementation of Scrum at scale using standards and tools for process and visibility across the enterprise.

David holds many certifications in the project management and Agile domains including: PMI Project Management Professional, Digital Project Manager, Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Product Owner, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Certified Scrum Professional, and as Certified Scrum @ Scale Practitioner. David has used JIRA since 2005 and he uses it nearly every day to execute projects with Agile teams.

David is a husband and the father of two amazing kids. He loves cars, motorcycles, and craft beer. You'll find him on summer days either in the garage or out for a drive.

Who this course is for:

If you want to get started with JIRA Software and learn how to run your JIRA projects the agile way, then this is the perfect video for you.

Course content

6 sections • 26 lectures

What Is JIRA? 5 lectures

Course Overview Preview 04:47

This video provides an overview of the entire course.

Projects Keep Your Work Organized Preview 03:41

This video will give a small introduction to JIRA and also start by showing how to use projects to keep you work organised.

Get a small introduction to JIRA
Learn how to use projects to keep your work organized

Creating an Account with Atlassian Preview 01:41

This video will show how to create an account with Atlassian.

Create an account
Get a free trial
Start using JIRA

Project Creation and Management Preview 04:23

Projects allow you to organize all of your different streams of work within JIRA. This video will show you how to create your project and manage them as well.

Create a project
View your projects
Manage your projects

Schemes, Screens, Workflows, and Permissions Preview 05:48

Screens, workflows, permissions, and notifications give you many options to tailor JIRA to your work. This video will deal with just that.

Learn what screens are and how to configure them
Learn what workflows are and how to configure them
Learn what permissions are and how to configure them

Managing All of Those Work Items 4 lectures

Epics, Stories, Bugs, and Tasks Preview 08:30

This video will show how to use epics, stories, bugs, and tasks in JIRA.

Learn the different issue types
Learn how they are different from each other
Learn why to use each one

Issue Type Attributes, Adding, and Removing Them Preview 05:52

This video will show the different work item attributes are and how to customize them to fit your needs.

Learn the different issue attributes
Learn how to use the different attributes
Learn how to customize the attributes

Managing the Items in Your Backlog Preview 06:26

This video will show how to use your backlog to get all of that work defined, prioritized, and refined.

Learn what a backlog is
Learn how to organize and prioritize your backlog
Learn how to get your backlog refined

Creating and Configuring Your Board Preview 07:46

This video will show how to run your Sprints with a board and how to use the columns and Swimlanes.

Learn what a JIRA board is
Learn how to use your board
Learn how to customize your board

Running Your Project in JIRA 4 lectures

Creating and Starting a Sprint Preview 07:15

This video will show how use the backlog to refine work, plan and then begin your Sprint iteration.

Learn how to create a Sprint
Learn how to make sure work is ready for a Sprint
Start your Sprint

The Daily Scrum Preview 05:16

This video shows how to use JIRA to keep the team all on the same page and know if you are on track to meet your commitment.

Use JIRA for the daily scrum
Confirm that all work is visible to everyone for high alignment
Use burndowns for tracking progress against the team commitment

Smaller Stories or Tasks? Preview 06:15

This video shows how to optimize your Sprint work items for your team.

Learn the different methods of breaking down actionable work
Learn if you should use smaller stories or tasks to organize
Learn what works best for your team and your work

Closing the Sprint — the Sprint Report Preview 03:53

This video shows how to end a Sprint and what to do with any undone work.

Learn how to know if your Sprint is finished
Learn how to close your Sprint
Learn what to do with work items that are not completed at the end of the Sprint