Setting Up a Real-World Project in JIRA

Updated 2024! Learn to work on, manage, administer agile projects with this comprehensive course on JIRA and Confluence

Created by: Kosh Sarkar (Atlassian Certified Trainer)
Atlassian Consultant & Trainer

What Will I Learn?

• Understand what JIRA is, benefits of JIRA and how to use JIRA
• Understand Scrum - the stakeholders, events and overall flow of work
• Understand Kanban flow of work
• Use JIRA as a user working within an agile team - creating, working on and searching for issues, customizing dashboards etc.
• Use JIRA as a manager of an agile team - configuring agile boards, managing the backlog, sprints and releases etc.
• Administer all aspects of JIRA - create users, groups, set permissions, configure issue types, screens, fields, workflows etc.
• Use examples presented in this course to customize and use JIRA based on your own unique needs
• Get ideas (through examples presented in the course) on how JIRA can be utilized for different scenarios or situations
• Learn the basics of Confluence
• Learn how you can use both JIRA and Confluence together to work better and be more productive in general

Requirements

• There is no pre-requisite knowledge required to take this course.
• If you're looking to practice or follow along with the videos, you would need access to a Jira Cloud instance via a web browser

Target audience

• Anyone who is looking for an agile project management tool
• Anyone looking to get introduced to Jira and Confluence and learn about how they work
• Anyone who is looking to understand all features and concepts of Jira & Confluence and get up to speed with using and administering them for their teams
• Anyone looking for examples on how Jira can be used for agile teams and/or ideas on how to take advantage of Jira for various scenarios