JumpStart to Jira for End Users (TTDV7541)

Tracking issues is a critical component of your project management strategy. Jira provides a web based repository for creating, tracking, and reporting on feature requests, bugs reported, or managing your workflow. This hands-on course enables you to work with a Jira instance and learn by doing . The course focus is on exploring best practices and practical skills through hands-on activities.

You ll also receive a copy of Jira Essentials - Fourth Edition by Patrick Li.

Getting started with Jira

• Jira Overview
• Core concepts
• Terminology
• Infrastructure
• Users and Groups
• Jira roles

Using Jira for Business Projects

• Overview of Projects
• Project types
• Project screens
• Tasks and task management
• Project Management
• Process Management

Using Jira for Agile Projects

• Overview of Agile with Jira
• Kanban overview
• Running a project with Kanban
• Configuring agile screen
• resolving an issue

Issue Management

• Overview of Issues
• Working with issues
• Issue cloning
• Time tracking
• Issues and comments
• Tasks and subtasks

Field Management

• Overview of Fields
• Built-in fields
• Custom fields
• Searching
• Configuring Jira for fields

Screen Management

• Overview of Jira screens
• Working with screens
• Using screen tabs
• Issue type screens
• associating an issue type screen a with a project
• Customizing Jira screens

Workflow and Business Process

• Overview of Workflow
• Mapping business processes
• Managing workflows
• Authoring a workflow
• Updating an existing workflow
• Workflow schemes
• Applying a workflow to a project

Searching and Reporting

• Overview of Searching
• Search screens
• Basic search
• Advanced search with JQL
• Working with search results
• Reports
• Dashboards
• Filters
• Gadgets
• Charts

Summary and Best Practices

• Looking back at the Big Picture
• Jira Administration Overview
• Where Jira fits into the Agile perspective
• Jira End-User best practices

You should have experience in Enterprise application development and working on project teams.

This course is for new Jira end users.