This course discusses common foundational principles and practices used by agile methodologies, providing you with a flexible set of tools to use in your role (e.g. product owner, scrum master, project manager, team member) on an agile team. Learn agile and lean principles, including kanban and scrum, and use Jira Software Cloud as the tool to apply hands-on exercises in these topics. The course includes instruction on company-managed and team-managed Jira projects.
After completing this course, you will have a strong foundational understanding of agile principles and practices and hands-on experience with Jira Software Cloud. Site administrators will be able to perform basic administration tasks. You will be able to continuously configure your Jira projects to match your team's custom agile methodology.
Once completing this course, you will be prepared to earn your first Atlassian credential: https://go.atlassian.com/coursera-apb-330
*You can use a free Jira Software Cloud site to complete the hands-on labs associated with this course. This will require a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.
This module provides an overview of the agile mindset. It introduces Atlassian Jira as a tool used to implement agile principles for team project work. Students use a free Jira Software Cloud site to go through the hands-on exercises in this course. We cover the importance of visualizing work, and provide an overview of the kanban agile method. Students will create a custom kanban board.
What's included
5 videos7 readings1 assignment
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5 videos•Total 79 minutes
Agile Overview•21 minutes
Jira Overview•16 minutes
Visualizing Work: Boards•18 minutes
Kanban Overview I•9 minutes
Kanban Overview II•15 minutes
7 readings•Total 97 minutes
Welcome!•2 minutes
(lab) Our First Jira Company-managed Project•20 minutes
(lab- optional) Our First Jira Team-managed Project•5 minutes
(lab) Configure a Company-managed Kanban Board•25 minutes
(lab- optional) Configure a Team-managed Kanban Board•15 minutes
(lab) Kanban (Company-managed)•20 minutes
(lab- optional) Kanban (Team-managed)•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Module 1 Assessment•30 minutes
Agile Overview II
Module 2•2 hours to complete
Module details
This module start with an overview of scrum, including scrum concepts such as increments, sprints, sprint goals, backlogs, estimation, velocity, common scrum reports, roles and events. You will then execute a sprint using Jira. The rest of the module focuses more on the "why" of agile, and provided a foundational understanding of lean and agile principles. The Toyota Production System is discussed, as this could be considered as the foundation of lean thinking. The Agile Manifesto is also discussed in quite some detail.
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5 videos2 readings1 assignment
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5 videos•Total 72 minutes
Scrum Overview I- Artifacts•17 minutes
Scrum Overview II- Roles and Events•14 minutes
Toyota Kanban•9 minutes
Lean Principles•19 minutes
Agile Principles•13 minutes
2 readings•Total 45 minutes
(lab) Scrum (Company-managed)•25 minutes
(lab- optional) Scrum (Team-managed)•20 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Module 2 Assessment•30 minutes
Configure Jira I
Module 3•4 hours to complete
Module details
This module focuses on configuring Jira to match your agile process. This is a more hands-on module than the previous module. Every team has a unique, continuously evolving agile process. Their tools need to be able to adapt to these changes. We will start by discussing searching, then discuss Jira Query Language (JQL). A solid understanding of JQL helps with the rest of the course and in your continuing use of Jira after the course. We will discuss creating filters, custom issue types and configuring issues to show the information that your team cares about.
(lab) Configuring Issues in Company-managed Projects•25 minutes
(lab- optional) Configuring Issues in Team-managed Projects•15 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Module 3 Assessment•30 minutes
Configure Jira II
Module 4•3 hours to complete
Module details
In this module, we continue configuring Jira in order to be able to match the tool to our team's custom agile process. We will discuss and create epics, which are large issues that may contain other issues. We will discuss and create versions, which are a set of issues that usually make up a product update. We discuss users and permissions. Since you are the administrator of the free Jira Software Cloud site that you use for this course, you should know how to invite users to your site and configure permissions so that the right access is granted to users. We end the course with a final project. You will be asked to configure Jira to keep up with your team's continuous changes to their agile process.
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4 videos6 readings1 assignment
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4 videos•Total 49 minutes
Epics•7 minutes
Versions•15 minutes
Users and Groups•9 minutes
(optional) Permissions•18 minutes
6 readings•Total 77 minutes
(lab) Epics in Company-managed Projects•20 minutes
(lab- optional) Epics and Roadmaps in Team-managed Projects•15 minutes
(lab) Versions•15 minutes
(lab) Users and Groups•15 minutes
A note on permissions•2 minutes
Final Project•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Module 4 Assessment•30 minutes
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Reviewed on May 19, 2020
The course is very detailed with easy to follow worksheets and lab instructions. It's well presented and structured. I enjoyed studying the course and looking forward to apply the skills in my role.
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Reviewed on Aug 16, 2021
This is a well set out introduction to both Jira software and Agile, Scrum and Kanban. Highly recommeded. In praticular the practical labs are helpful and flow well. Great learning opportunity here.
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Reviewed on Mar 2, 2019
This is a very helpful course about learning how to use Jira and also covers some basics of Agile project management and Scrum in one package. And better yet, the instructor is from Atlassian.
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