Master Jira Advanced Roadmaps | Agile Project Management

Elevate your skills in JIRA’s project planning and agile road-mapping with hands-on experience from real-world projects

What you'll learn

Be able to create realistic roadmaps with realistic dates

Be able to create manual plans or use JIRA Plans(Advanced Roadmaps) 's smart auto-scheduling feature

Be able to create a quick JIRA Plans(Advanced Roadmaps) with existing JIRA data

Master various complex functionality of Advanced Roadmap like Sprints, Releases, Cross team Releases , Auto Scheduling , Warning and what-if scenarios etc

Get Expertise in Iron Triangle and Plan using Iron Triangle Constraints (scope, time, resources)

Understand the concepts using Real World Case Study

Learn Various Project Management Aspects like Scope Management, Risk Management, Capacity Management, Dependency Management

Requirements

Familiarity with JIRA and Agile Concepts

If you'd like to follow along with the steps, I recommend getting access to a JIRA Premium Cloud instance. A free trial is available, so you can easily explore all the advanced features without any cost upfront.

Description

This course walks through all the core features and functionality of JIRA Plans(Advanced Roadmaps) - JIRA’s project planning and agile road-mapping tool, that is now available with Jira Premium.The tool (previously know as the popular add-on, Portfolio) has proven to be so popular and useful, that it was taken over by Atlassian themselves, and is now included with a Jira Premium subscription on Cloud.Advanced Roadmaps works off the iron triangle of planning which defines scope, time and resources as your primary constraints and parameters of planning. In this course, you will learn how you can find the best combination of the above to set realistic roadmaps, release dates, and overall project plans.COVERAGE OF THE COURSE:Get started with Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - This section will give you a quick rundown of the tools and features you’ll find within your plan, and how they help you plan work for your organization or team.Configure Jira with Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - Configure advanced settings for your advanced roadmaps or plansSet up your Advanced Roadmaps or Plan and change its settings - Understand various Plan Level settings to make the best use of Advanced Roadmaps or PlansManage and edit issues with Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - Issues are the building blocks of your plan. You can import issues from issue sources from existing projects, or you can create new issues directly in your plan then save them.Estimate and schedule issues in your Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - An important aspect of planning work is scheduling how long each issue will take to complete. How you schedule issues depends on how your teams are set up, and how you’ve configured your instance.Create different planning scenarios in your Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - The Scenarios tool helps you to plan for and assess the impact of possible outcomes by mapping out different “what if” versions of your plan.Manage capacity in your Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - Learn how to balance your team's workload using capacity and velocity and create a plan that works.Manage releases in your Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - Releases are milestone that are critical for your success. Understand how to configure and work with ReleasesManage teams in your Advanced Roadmaps or Plan - Teams are real people working to bring your plan to life. See various ways you can configure teams in advanced roadmaps or plansView and manage dependencies in your Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - Understand and remove dependencies in your advanced roadmap or plans before they become impedimentResolve warnings in your Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - While scheduling work for your teams, your plan alerts you to errors such as misaligned dates in your plan. Using the warnings dropdown menu, you can modify which warnings are shown, filter issues by warning type, and troubleshoot common warnings.Change how your Advanced Roadmaps or Plan displays your data - Your plan offers several ways to show only the work that matters most to you.Review and save changes made in your Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - Save changes drafted in a plan to update work in projects.Share and export your Advanced Roadmaps or Plan - Learn how to share the Plan with relevant stakeholders.This curriculum balances foundational Agile principles with hands-on, practical applications of Jira Advanced Roadmaps, ensuring learners can directly implement what they learn. Feel free to share any suggestions or additional details you'd like to include. I welcome feedback to further enhance the course's practical relevance for working professionals.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to the Course

Lecture 2 Meet your trainer

Lecture 3 Legal Disclaimer

Lecture 4 Introduce yourself to fellow Students

Section 2: Let's Get Started!!

Lecture 5 Introduction to Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans

Lecture 6 Changes to Advanced Roadmap UI

Lecture 7 More on Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans

Lecture 8 Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans Versions

Lecture 9 Why do we need to know about Project Management?

Lecture 10 Agile Project Management : Iron Triangle and Constraints

Section 3: Setting Up Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans for Agile Project Management

Lecture 11 Locate the Atlassian switcher

Lecture 12 Setting up the environment

Lecture 13 Project Roadmap(Timeline) and Advanced Roadmaps in Jira - What is difference?

Lecture 14 Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans Global Settings

Section 4: Working with Advanced Roadmaps or Plans - Understand with a Simple Plan

Lecture 15 Creating a Sample Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans

Lecture 16 Creating a Advanced Roadmap or JIRA Plans using the Template

Lecture 17 Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans Timeline Settings

Lecture 18 Advanced Roadmap - Share and Permissions

Lecture 19 Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans- Reviewing the Changes

Lecture 20 Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans- View Settings - Color By and Sort By

Lecture 21 Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans - View Settings - Group By and Dependency By

Lecture 22 Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans- View Settings - Roll By

Section 5: Working with Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans - Important Features

Lecture 23 Configuring Issue Hierarchy in JIRA Plans(Advanced Roadmaps)

Lecture 24 Understanding Warnings in Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans

Lecture 25 Understanding Filters in Advanced Roadmap or JIRA Plans

Lecture 26 Forecasting : Manual Planning

Lecture 27 Forecasting : Auto-Scheduling

Section 6: Working with Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans - Building a Complex Roadmap

Lecture 28 Capacity Planning : Working with Rank and estimates

Lecture 29 Capacity Planning : Working with different Sprint Capacity

Lecture 30 Capacity Planning : Working with Velocity and Sprint Length

Lecture 31 Scoping : Source Data

Lecture 32 Dependency Management in Advanced Roadmaps

Lecture 33 Working with cross-project dependencies

Lecture 34 Share the Dependencies Report

Lecture 35 Forecasting : Working with Releases

Lecture 36 Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans Plan Level Settings - Setting up the Teams

Lecture 37 Advanced Roadmaps - Assigning Issues to the Teams

Lecture 38 Managing Multiple or Cross Teams with Advanced Roadmaps(JIRA Plans)

Lecture 39 Working with Preconfigured Views

Lecture 40 Creating a New Custom View - CEO View

Lecture 41 Risk Management : Concept of "what-if" scenarios

Lecture 42 Limits on the Advanced Roadmaps

Section 7: Real-world Use Cases of Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans

Lecture 43 Case Study 1: How David used the Advanced Roadmap - Scenarios and Capacity

Lecture 44 Case Study 2: Coordinating Multiple Scrum Teams

Section 8: Best Practices while using Advanced Roadmaps

Lecture 45 Best Practices for Continuous Improvement in Jira

Lecture 46 Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Using Advanced Roadmaps or JIRA Plans

Section 9: Conclusion and way forward…

Lecture 47 Way forward…Keep Learning and Experimenting

Lecture 48 Congratulations and About Your Udemy Certificate

Lecture 49 Claiming PDUs from PMI : If you have PMI Certificate

Product Managers, Project Managers, Development Managers, Team Leads, Executives - anyone looking for a project planning tool for JIRA,Those who frequently Lead and Plan a team - Scrum Masters, Release Train Managers , Product Owners, Business Analysts,Any team member looking to step up, show some initiative and recommend Advanced Roadmaps to their leads,Anyone looking to evaluate JIRA Plans(Advanced Roadmaps) as a project planning tool,Want to Earn PDUs - Earn 2-4 PDUs by successfully completing this course