Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence Training Course

This 2-day course is designed for IT professionals interested in exploring the Waterfall model and examining how organizations have historically addressed its limitations, including the adoption of Agile methodologies.

On the first day, participants will receive an overview of these various approaches, enabling them to determine which best suits their specific working environment.

The second day focuses on project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile, demonstrating how they can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile contexts.

Business analysis is the process of researching, understanding, and defining business needs to develop solutions that meet those needs. It is a crucial element in the change management process within an organization and in designing new business solutions. The goal of business analysis is to ensure that technological, process, or organizational solutions meet business goals and needs. It is a key element in ensuring the effectiveness of projects and changes in the organization by ensuring that implemented solutions are accurate, feasible, and fully aligned with business requirements.

The course "Scrum for an Advanced Scrum Master + Preparation for PSM II" is aimed at experienced Scrum Masters who wish to expand their competencies, gain a deeper understanding of how Scrum works, and become true agile leaders. The course covers interpretation of the Scrum Guide in line with Scrum.org’s vision, which is crucial for the PSM II exam. Participants gain practical knowledge about complexity, the empirical approach, Scrum’s values, and the role of the Scrum Master as a leader. Additionally, the course prepares participants for the PSM II exam, which is based on the latest version of the Scrum Guide.

This course centers on the business analyst's role to ensure success within Agile projects. Participants will learn how to collaborate effectively with the Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Customer to streamline the development process. The curriculum includes a simulated project where participants practice handling common scenarios.

Who is this course for?

This two-day program is designed for IT professionals eager to implement Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies for managing software development. It is particularly valuable for project managers, team leaders, developers, and stakeholders in the software development process who wish to gain influence over the development lifecycle.

This course is designed for test managers, quality assurance professionals, testers, software developers, project managers, and senior management to illustrate how Agile project management frameworks—particularly SCRUM—integrate testing practices.

By the conclusion of the course, each participant will design and execute a test plan for a sample application, which may be a real client application if one is available.

This two-day course offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers foundational test concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and utilizes Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

Intended Audience

This course is designed for development teams seeking to enhance their testing practices in an Agile environment.

It is also suitable for individuals aiming to pursue testing as a dedicated career path and serves as a prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

This instructor-led live training in Sweden (online or onsite) walks participants through the deployment of a JIRA instance. The curriculum covers advanced JIRA usage, installation, configuration, upgrading, and migration. Participants will learn to customize JIRA for their projects, manage users, groups, and project roles, configure dashboards, define emails and notifications, apply security schemes, manage permissions, and perform troubleshooting. The course also includes installing and customizing JIRA Service Desk, setting up a knowledge base, managing service desk users, and collaboratively handling service requests.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Achieve an in-depth understanding of JIRA administration.
• Customize JIRA according to their business needs.
• Define JIRA emails and notifications.
• Manage and assign users, groups, and project roles.
• Manage JIRA permissions and security schemes.
• Perform JIRA troubleshooting.
• Deploy and customize JIRA Service Desk.

Upon completion of the training, participants will be equipped to independently manage, optimize, and customize JIRA within a corporate setting.

This instructor-led, live training in Sweden introduces the advanced capabilities of JIRA, including creating and managing various project types, leveraging JIRA for agile initiatives, configuring agile boards, managing built-in and custom fields, handling screens and filters, conducting basic and advanced issue searches, applying screen schemes, managing and updating workflows, configuring workflow schemes, and performing analysis while generating reports.

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Manage issues effectively.
• Create and execute Scrum and Kanban projects.
• Manage built-in and custom fields.
• Understand and manage business processes, workflows, and workflow schemes.
• Conduct basic and advanced searches and analysis.
• Generate and review reports.

This instructor-led, live training in Sweden introduces JIRA's approach to software planning, tracking and releasing as it walks participants through the creation and management of a JIRA project.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand concepts and functionality behind JIRA's user interface and workflows.
• Add, modify, clone, link, and prioritize issues.
• Progress issues through the entire workflow.
• Perform searches.
• Manage and customize screens and filters.

This instructor-led, live training in Sweden (online or onsite) targets intermediate-level project managers who wish to create, execute, and manage forms in Jira effectively.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Jira's core concepts, including issue types, workflows, and projects.
• Develop and manage custom fields to collect and organize data effectively.
• Optimize form-related processes for various project types and teams.

This instructor-led, live training in Sweden (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level Jira administrators who wish to learn how to use Jira Service Management efficiently.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn and understand the fundamentals of Jira Service Management.
• Set up and configure a service desk and manage requests.
• Manage Jira Service Management backend and integration.

This instructor-led, live training in Sweden (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to enhance their Jira skills by learning how to integrate and utilize the Xray plugin, manage user roles and permissions, optimize data imports, and effectively handle storage management.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Integrate and configure the Xray plugin for test management.
• Manage Jira user profiles and assign appropriate roles and permissions.
• Efficiently import data into Jira following best practices.
• Optimize Jira storage usage and implement data management strategies.

JIRA is a Java-based web application designed to provide project and issue tracking, enhancing the agility of software development.

During this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to utilize Jira to implement a Kanban approach to Agile within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Comprehend the principles underlying Agile and Kanban methodologies
• Utilize Jira to create and manage a Kanban project
• Customize Jira to align with their organization's specific requirements
• Conduct basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports

Audience

• Product managers
• Software developers
• Test engineers
• Business analysts

Format of the Course

• Combination of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• To request customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange it.