Agile Foundations and Jira

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Course Number: AGL-166
Duration: 3 days (19.5 hours)
Format: Live, hands-on

Agile and Jira Training Overview

Participants in this Agile Foundations and Jira training course learn the fundamentals of Scrum and Kanban. This class emphasizes practical Agile principles and how to implement them in real-world projects using Jira®.

Our expert instructors use a variety of learning tools, including hands-on practice, participant-led instruction, videos, games, and more. This class can be customized to take one of your projects through the Agile lifecycle using Jira.

Location and Pricing

Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.

Objectives

  • Learn what Agile is and why you should you use it
  • Understand the Agile Lifecycle
  • Learn what Scrum and Kanban are and when to use them
  • Understand Agile roles and responsibilities
  • Write and maintain practical requirements using user stories
  • Manage Agile projects using Jira Software
  • Manage project backlog in Jira
  • Manage iterations/sprints in Jira
  • Manage releases and roadmaps
  • Create transparency in Jira
  • Build reports and metrics
  • Customize dashboards in Jira

Prerequisites

By default, this course presumes prior exposure to Agile software development. However, we would be delighted to tailor it to any level of prior experience.

Outline

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Agile Overview
  • Overview of Agile
  • Why Agile
  • Agile Manifesto and Principle
  • Workshop: Team Agile Manifesto and Principles Retrospective
  • Agile versus Waterfall
  • The Agile Team
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Workshop(s)
Scrum Overview
  • Agile Delivery Lifecycle
Scrum vs. Kanban
  • Agile Requirements Levels
  • Progressive Elaboration
  • Features, Epics, Stories, Tasks, Bugs
  • Acceptance Criteria (BDD)
  • Workshop: Defining User Stories
  • Definition of Ready (DoR)
  • Definition of Done (DoD)
  • Estimation: Affinity Estimation
  • Estimation: Planning Poker
  • Prioritization Techniques
  • Planning a Release
Jira Primer
  • Introduction to Jira
  • Setting up a Real-Work Project in Jira
  • Jira Components and Screen Navigation
  • Tracking business value and size (effort)
  • Understanding Jira Fields
  • Customizing Jira Work Item Screens
  • Customizing Jira boards
  • Advanced: Customize workflows
Iteration/Sprint Planning
  • Definition of Ready
  • Breaking down user stories into Tasks
  • Jira Workshop – Capacity Planning
Closing out the Iteration/Sprint
  • Iteration/Sprint Retrospectives and Demonstrations
  • Jira Workshop – Closing the Iteration
Managing Release and Versions
  • Release & Roadmap Management
  • Managing Dependencies in Jira
  • Creating traceability using versions in Jira
  • Jira Workshop – Create a Roadmap
Jira Basic Queries
  • ‘JQL’ Filter Overview
    • Saving Filters
    • Sharing filters
    • Jira Workshop – Filters
  • Jira Advanced Queries, Reports, and Dashboards
    • Reporting and Metrics Overview
    • Jira ‘Dashboard’ Overview
Conclusion

Training Materials

All attendees receive comprehensive courseware.

Software Requirements

Accelebrate can provide a remote lab environment for this class.  All attendees should have computers with Internet access and a modern web browser (ideally Chrome).



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