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JIRA

Jira Up and Running

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

Step-by-step Agile team project management

  • Learn project configuration
  • Learn backlog creation and management
  • Understand how to track and report team progress and success

Join expert Emily Lint to get step-by-step guidance on how to configure, customize, manage, facilitate, and track progress against your Agile team backlogs and Agile team execution. You’ll understand how to identify and avoid common pitfalls that can make Jira’s extensive features and configurations a challenge for transitioning or newly formed Agile teams. By the end of the course, you’ll feel comfortable leading an Agile team in Jira—from configuration through executing a full sprint—armed with tips and tricks to make the software easier to work with and fit for use for your particular team and organization.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Configure your project to avoid common mistakes and hurdles in backlog creation, execution tracking, team facilitation, and reporting out progress within Jira
  • Perform the basic administrative, backlog management, and team management duties in Jira to successfully lead an Agile team
  • Use features that add value to your workflow
  • Avoid slowdowns and bottlenecks with tool adoption and implementation

This live event is for you because...

  • You’re a waterfall team lead who’s interested in learning the basics of Agile teaming in Jira.
  • You’re a developer in an Agile team who wants to be more proficient in backlog management in Jira.
  • You’re a product manager who’s interested in taking your product management skills to the next level.
  • You’re a project manager transitioning into an Agile team lead role for a team that uses Jira.
  • You’re an Agile team lead who’s being asked to create and configure Jira projects.
  • You’re an Agile coach looking to expand your knowledge of Agile team tooling.
  • You want to become more knowledgeable about the relationship between Agile practices and Agile tools.
  • You want to become proficient in the basics of Jira project administration.

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of team process management in an Agile or waterfall environment

Recommended preparation:

  • Access to a Jira instance or ability to gain access to a Jira instance

Recommended follow-up:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Agile teams and Jira (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Agile and Agile teams; scrum and kanban; Why Agile teams use Jira to manage work

Jira interface and administration (45 minutes)

  • Presentation: Introduction to Jira interface, terminology, concepts, and workflow; basic Jira project and profile administration
  • Q&A
  • Break

Jira project and team configuration (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Navigating the team interface and boards; creating a team board; adding users and sprints to a project
  • Q&A
  • Break

Creating a project team backlog (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Creating and detailing an epic; breaking down an epic into issues or user stories; customizing epics and user stories; adding defects to a backlog
  • Q&A
  • Break

Planning and tracking execution (35 minutes)

  • Presentation: Planning a sprint; tracking progress of a sprint through boards; tips and tricks for Scrum and Kanban team facilitation
  • Q&A

Jira reporting (25 minutes)

  • Presentation: Common reports in Agile; navigating the reporting interface in Jira; reporting team progress and success in Jira
  • Q&A

Your Instructor

  • Emily Lint

    Emily Lint is the founder and owner of Lint Agility Services LLC, cofounder of the nonprofit Agile Careers, and marketing, communications, and podcast program director for Women in Agile.

    As an Agile coach and practitioner for the last six years, she’s a subject matter expert in Lean-Agile-SAFe values, mindset, and the array of tools in the Agile toolbox. She has firsthand experience launching and re-energizing Agile transformations using a variety of tools and coaching techniques. Previously, she was a process manager and requirements engineer in IT for seven years.