Learn Jira 7: Step-By-Step Tutorial: 2-In-1

Explore the great features of the all-new Jira 7 to manage projects and effectively handle bugs and software issues

What you'll learn

Understand Jira’s data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects in Jira

Use Jira for agile software projects, business process management, customer service support, and more

Create and design your own screens and apply them to different project and issue types

Use Jira to deal with real business cases

Integrate user directories in Jira

Configure an existing project and convert it to another type

Requirements

No prior knowledge of Jira is required.

Description

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 agile methodology to Atlassian Jira.


This  comprehensive 2-in-1 course aims at exploring Jira incisively. It will guide you through all the aspects so that you get well-versed with it. You will learn how to create new projects, manage issues, search and report. You will learn about 3 flavors of Jira - Jira Core, Jira Software and Jira Service Desk. Each section briefly establishes theoretical basis for the topic under discussion and then cement your understanding with practical use cases.


This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.


The first course, Jira 7 Essentials, begins with an introduction to Jira so you can use it effectively. You will then install Jira to explore its various features. You will also learn how to create a new project, manage, search, and report issues in Jira. Next, you will learn the three flavors of Jira which are Jira Core, Jira Software, and Jira Service Desk in detail and specific scenarios for each one of them will be developed. Finally, you will configure a sample portfolio app in Jira.


The second course, JIRA Administration - Getting Started with JIRA, starts off with setting up Jira's look and feel to meet your corporate style. You will then learn how to configure default languages settings, dashboards, project navigation, and everything else to make your users comfortable working with Jira. You will also learn Jira instruments to manage users such as creating new users, assigning users to a group, and automatically assigning project roles to users of a group. Next, you will learn to add and configure a project. You will gain an understanding of different schemes used in Jira for project configuration. Finally, you will be familiar with versions and components of the project that help you with project management.


By the end of this Learning Path, you will be a confident Jira user who'll be able to administer, customize, and extend Jira 7 implementation for your projects and day-to-day tasks.

Meet Your Expert(s):

We have the best work of the following esteemed author(s) to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:




Ravi Sagar is an Atlassian Consultant and Drupal expert with several years of experience in web development and business analysis. He has done extensive work implementing and customizing big Jira instances for project tracking, test management, support tickets, and agile tracking. He founded Sparxsys Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010. It is a company that provides consultancy and training services on Atlassian tools and Drupal. He has a keen interest in building accessible websites adhering to WCAG guidelines. Ravi's areas of interest include project management and agile methodologies.IevStrygula software engineer who specializes in the full stack of Atlassian products. He is certified by Atlassian in Jira software and Jira administration. He has more than 4 years of experience and is presently working on iDalko.

Overview

Section 1: Jira 7 Essentials

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 What Is Jira 7?

Lecture 3 The Benefits of Using Jira 7

Lecture 4 What Is Jira Core, Jira Software, and Jira Service Desk

Lecture 5 Planning Your Jira Installation

Lecture 6 Installing Jira

Lecture 7 Maintaining Jira – Upgrade and Housekeeping

Lecture 8 Best Practices for Maintaining Jira

Lecture 9 Creating Your First Project in Jira

Lecture 10 Understanding Jira Core Project for Business Processes

Lecture 11 How to Use Jira for Development Projects?

Lecture 12 Overview of Agile Concepts

Lecture 13 Configure Scrum Board

Lecture 14 Configure Kanban Board

Lecture 15 Jira Software Reports

Lecture 16 Overview of Helpdesk

Lecture 17 Creating a Jira Service Desk Project

Lecture 18 Configuring Jira Service Desk

Lecture 19 Jira Service Desk Reports

Lecture 20 Using Issue Navigator and Basic Search

Lecture 21 Understanding JQL

Lecture 22 Filters, Permissions, and Subscriptions

Lecture 23 Dashboards

Lecture 24 Overview of Portfolio

Lecture 25 Configuring a Portfolio Plan

Lecture 26 Creating What-If Scenarios

Lecture 27 Portfolio Reports and Program View

Section 2: JIRA Administration - Getting Started with JIRA

Lecture 28 The Course Overview

Lecture 29 Look and Feel

Lecture 30 Announcements Banner

Lecture 31 Default Dashboard

Lecture 32 User Default Settings

Lecture 33 Issue Navigator

Lecture 34 Adding Users

Lecture 35 Changing User Details

Lecture 36 Deactivating Users

Lecture 37 Deleting Users

Lecture 38 Groups in Jira

Lecture 39 Groups and Permissions

Lecture 40 Groups and Notifications

Lecture 41 Groups and Filters Management

Lecture 42 Groups and Workflow Conditions

Lecture 43 Creating a Project

Lecture 44 Configuration Schemes

Lecture 45 Permission Scheme

Lecture 46 Notification Scheme

Lecture 47 Issue Security Scheme

Lecture 48 Issue Types Scheme

Lecture 49 Workflow Scheme

Lecture 50 Screen Scheme

Lecture 51 Fields Configuration Scheme

Lecture 52 Versions

Lecture 53 Components

This Learning Path will be especially useful for project managers but it's also intended for other Jira users, including developers, and any other industry besides software development, who would like to leverage Jira’s powerful task management and workflow features to better manage their business processes.