In this course, students will learn what Jira is and its basic entities, learn how to work with tasks in Jira in practice: create, edit, and search for them. They will get an idea of how to work with a project and set it up, and learn what a Scrum/Kanban project and Scrum/Kanban board are.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Create tasks in Jira and walk them through the lifecycle;
- Monitor task status as they go through the lifecycle using search;
- Describe how tasks are classified in Jira;
- Save searches to make it easier to check task statuses;
- Change existing tasks, priorities, and assigned users;
- Update multiple tasks in a single operation to align with changing business requirements;
- Use versions to coordinate product releases;
- Translate the progress of project tasks using the Dashboard in Jira;
- Work with Scrum and Kanban boards.
Target Audience
This course is designed for beginners or new Jira users, product managers, project administrators, Jira application administrators, and system administrators.
Topics covered include.
- What is Jira?
- The basic Jira entities.
- Tasks in Jira.
- Navigation in Jira.
- Dashboards and reports.
- Project management.
- An overview of Jira Software: Scrum, Kanban boards.
- Brief overview of Jira Service Desk and Confluence.
- Possibilities for customizing the system.