Jira Courses
*CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
As the rapid spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 continues around the world, we have decided to move all our training online. Our highest priority is the health of our employees, customers, and partners. We are prepared to offer the same great content during remote training. With so many virtual training offerings, it is more important than ever to keep attendees engaged and attentive.
The health of our customers and partners is our highest priority. We will continue to provide updates as soon as they become available. Thank you for your understanding.
Not everyone learns the same way, so we ensure all of our courses are interactive, informative, and fun. Not sure which classes to take? No problem, we provide a free consultation. Our classes are offered in various formats: on-demand, virtual, team onsite.
Jira Server Essentials
In this course, you'll learn about the three Jira products: Jira Core, Jira Software and Jira Service Desk. You'll get comfortable with Jira through hands-on experience performing the most common tasks, working through real-life scenarios on a preconfigured instance of Jira. You'll learn who typically performs which tasks and why, by experiencing Jira through different user roles. You'll also learn the basics of managing and tracking team issues and projects. You'll return to your jobs feeling confident that you can get started with and use the right Jira product in your everyday work.
Level:  Introductory
Jira Server Admin Part 1: Getting up and Running
Topics include a solid introduction to the following areas of Jira Administration: user management, global and project permissions, project roles, and the configuration of issue types, workflows, and screens. You also learn how to share project configuration by taking advantage of the power of schemes. The course includes a variety of business use cases to assist you in understanding Jira administration, and best practices are emphasized for each topic.
Level: Introductory
Jira Server Admin Part 2: Taking it to the next level
This course will explore more complex schemes (only permission and notification schemes were covered in Part 1), more advanced workflow configuration as well as board and sprint permissions. The course is structured around a case study where an organization creates a set of configurations and schemes to apply to new projects and existing in progress projects. Real world examples and best practices are emphasized.
Level: Introductory to intermediate
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Essential Jira Training for Kanban
Summary: In this hands-on, interactive class, you will learn to learn what Jira is all about and how to use it for your Scrum projects. You start out with an introduction to Jira and progress through Projects, Sprints, Issues, Backlogs, and reports, giving you a solid foundation for your Jira journey.
Level: Introductory
Jira Server Admin: Getting a Service Desk up and running
This course will explore more complex schemes (only permission and notification schemes were covered in Part 1), more advanced workflow configuration as well as board and sprint permissions. The course is structured around a case study where an organization creates a set of configurations and schemes to apply to new projects and existing in progress projects. Real world examples and best practices are emphasized.
Level: Introductory to intermediate
 
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Getting Started with Jira Software Server
Topics include an overview of the Agile Scrum development process, as well as a solid introduction to creating and configuring a Scrum board, managing the backlog, planning and creating a sprint, and running the active sprint. It also provides an overview of the reporting capabilities of Jira Software.
Level:  Introductory
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Getting More from Jira Workflows
What you learn in this course about Jira workflows applies to Jira Cloud Classic projects. (This course is not applicable to NextGen projects). However, the UI and navigation in the course differ from the Cloud product you have. If you are OK with this, then you will benefit from taking this course.
Duration:  8 hours
Level:  Intermediate
Realizing the Power of Jira Reporting & Dashboards
You'll learn how to use Jira Software's out-of-the box reporting and dashboard capabilities to view and assess progress and bottlenecks within projects. In hands-on exercises, you'll create and configure a project dashboard and learn how to configure dashboard gadgets. You’ll also learn how to read Jira Software reports, configure a wallboard, and create a multi-project dashboard. The course discusses dashboard best practices and pitfalls and how to ensure your reporting reflects the right metrics at the right time.
Level:  Introductory
Planning with Portfolio for Jira
Portfolio for Jira is Agile roadmapping for the enterprise. With Portfolio for Jira, you can create reliable forecasts of your work and at the same time keep track of current work across realistic schedules in an ever-changing environment, maintaining one source of truth. In this course, you gain a broad overview of the features of Portfolio for Jira and learn how to use the improved planning interface to create a plan that reflects your reality. The labs provide hands-on experience making adjustments to scope, teams, and releases. You'll also learn how to safely test what-if scenarios to improve your long-term planning effectiveness.
Level: Introductory to intermediate
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Jira/Confluence Integration
Learn to use Confluence to define product requirements, create Jira epics, stories, and issues and link them directly to the product requirements without ever leaving Confluence. Learn how to use Jira reporting to create dashboards that keep your team informed on project progress and status. The course is based on a scenario which demonstrates how to manage a project, from inception to completion of a sprint, using Jira, Jira Software and Confluence (agile experience is not necessary). Note that this course is not about integrating Confluence and Jira from a system administration context.
Level:  Introductory
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DevOps Simulation Workshop
One- day DevOps simulation workshop
Your teams will walk away from this workshop with a better understanding of the gaps in your DevOps approach and learn new ways to improve it.
During 3 rounds of simulations, teams will deliver new applications/services and operate existing ones. After each round, teams will be scored on:
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Ability to deliver business impact
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Ability to ship better software
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Time to Market
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Customer Satisfaction