Duration
2 days
Overview
This workshop will help participants learn some of the most commonly used features of JIRA tool in order to effectively bring visibility and predictability into projects being managed using scrum framework.
Learning Objectives
The course will enable participants to …
- Learn how to organize a project in terms of a set of releases and sprints within a release
- Learn how to organize requirements in terms of backlog – epics, stories, themes
- Learn how to set up and organize a new scrum project, and scrum board in JIRA
- Learn how to organize a sprint backlog according to capacity of teams
- Learn how to track the planned work in a sprint as well as a release (burn-down charts etc.)
Participants’ profile
It would help if participants have worked on scrum projects, familiar with scrum events, artefacts, etc.
Outline
Session
What Is Covered
Method Followed
Session 1
- Introduction & expectations setting
- Project set up
- Scrum board set up
- Adding users to teams, access control etc.
- Assignment based instructor lead discussions
Session 2
- Case study project – identify requirements
- Organize as a backlog
- Prioritize - how to reflect in the too
- Assignment based instructor lead discussions
Session 3
- How to capture details of requirements in the tool
- How to capture acceptance criteria, supporting docs in tool
- How to capture NFRs in the tool
- Assignment based instructor lead discussions
Session 4
- Create releases, sprints within a release
- How to estimate and capture estimates in the tool.
- How to capture capacity and velocity in tool
- Assignment based instructor lead discussions
Session 1
- Case study project – sprint planning
- How to break stories
- How to set up capacity, holidays etc.
- How to set up a scrum board
- Assignment based instructor lead discussions
Session 2
- How to track planned work – release level and sprint level
- Different options, charts available
- Metric to be collected, how to define and collect data
- Different reports available in the tool
- Instructor lead presentations and discussions
Session 3
- How to use this for reflecting work of multiple teams
- Multiple teams’ backlogs, dependencies between backlogs
- Plans of multiple teams and dependencies between the plans
- Tracking multiple teams’ work together as a whole
- Assignment based instructor lead discussions
Session 4
- Kanban board – how to set it up
- How to add WIP limits
- Where this can be useful
- A case study to set up a simple Kanban board
- Assignment based instructor lead discussions
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.