JIRA Essentials

The information packed into this online class

covers all of the essential topics you need to know in order to become productive with JIRA. 

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Whether you are a team leader, Agile manager, ScrumMaster or Product Owner, this course will help you understand the core functionality of Jira, and allow you to customize the tool to your organization’s software development processes and methodology. From creating projects to managing users to setting up project views to reviewing reports, this course will set you up to use Jira for all your agile development projects.
 

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Course Overview

Jira Interface 
Navigation basics (plan, work, report, search, admin)
Cross-referencing tickets
Watching and voting for tickets 

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Prioritization and Estimation 
Estimating work using story points
Assigning tickets to users and sprints 

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Jira Issue Types
Updating story subtasks
Grouping tickets 

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Managing Scrum Projects
Managing boards (backlog refinement, sprint planning and review)
Exploring boards and project relationship
Improving productivity through day-to-day use
Managing tickets, stories, bugs and tasks 
Labeling and tagging components 

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Optimizing search techniques
Refining user stories
Filing effective bug reports 
Leveraging reports
Action items on reports during retrospective and review
Creating burn-down, sprint and velocity charts 

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Customizing and Advanced Reporting using Dashboards
Creating custom reports with JQL filters 
Designing custom dashboards 
Developing a custom search report 
Utilizing custom filters
Configuring custom fields, schemes and work flows