Creating and Running an Agile Project in JIRA

Creating and Running an Agile Project in JIRA

JIRA Software is an agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, Kanban, or your own unique flavor. From agile boards to reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool. JIRA Software brings the power of the agile methodology to Atlassian's JIRA Software.

With this course, you will dive straight into the action, exploring critical agile terminologies and concepts in the context of JIRA Software. You will learn how to plan, track, and release great software. This course will teach you how to choose a workflow, set issue types and assign permissions.You will learn to stay connected with your team from anywhere to ensure great development.You will also be able to use JIRA Dashboards to broadcast your project results to all stakeholders so everyone is aligned.

By the end of this course, you will have developed a great working knowledge of JIRA Software, thus making your project management much more efficient.

This course uses JIRA 7, while not the latest version available, it provides relevant and informative content for legacy users of JIRA.

About the Author

David Harned is a PMO Director for Monotype and is a motivated and inspired leader of Agile thinkers, driving adoption within enterprises that have numerous parallel-distributed, highly autonomous, and self-organized teams. He is a design, usability, and customer experience advocate. He has managed developer group building in the e-commerce retail business. David is an Agile believer and uses Scrum, Kanban, and Lean as well as hybrid approaches for project management. David is an expert in the implementation of Scrum at scale using standards and tools for process and visibility across the enterprise.

David holds many certifications in the project management and Agile domains including: PMI Project Management Professional, Digital Project Manager, Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Product Owner, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Certified Scrum Professional, and as Certified Scrum @ Scale Practitioner. David has used JIRA since 2005 and he uses it nearly every day to execute projects with Agile teams.

David is a husband and the father of two amazing kids. He loves cars, motorcycles, and craft beer. You'll find him on summer days either in the garage or out for a drive.

Plan, track, and release great software

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What you will learn

• Create your first project (and manage existing projects) in JIRA
• Manage your board view and backlogs in JIRA
• Run a Scrum Sprint Project in JIRA

Rating: 4.3

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 2 hours

Instructor: Packt Publishing