Agile Project Management with Kanban and Jira Training Course

Target Audience:

IT Directors, Project Managers, Technical Team Leads, Analysts, Software Developers, and Testers.

Learning Outcomes:

This training aims to equip participants with the knowledge and practical skills needed to master the workshop components of Kanban and Agile foundations.

This instructor-led, live training in India (online or onsite) guides participants through the deployment of a JIRA instance. Participants will learn advanced JIRA usage, including installation, configuration, upgrading, and migration. The course covers customizing JIRA for projects, managing users, groups, and project roles, configuring dashboards, defining emails and notifications, applying security schemes, managing permissions, and performing troubleshooting. Additionally, participants will install and customize the JIRA Service Desk, set up a knowledge base, manage service desk users, and handle service requests collaboratively.

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

• Gain an in-depth understanding of JIRA administration.
• Customize JIRA according to their specific 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 the JIRA Service Desk.

Upon completing the training, participants will be equipped to independently manage, optimize, and customize JIRA within a corporate environment.

This instructor-led, live training in India introduces the advanced capabilities of JIRA, including creating and managing different types of JIRA projects, using JIRA for agile projects, configuring agile boards, managing built-in and custom fields, creating and managing screens and filters, performing basic and advanced issue searching, applying screen schemes, managing and updating workflows, configuring and applying workflow schemes, performing analysis and generating reports.

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

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

This instructor-led, live training in India highlights JIRA's approach to software planning, tracking, and release management, walking participants through the end-to-end creation and administration of a JIRA project.

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

• Understand the underlying concepts and functionality of JIRA's user interface and workflows.
• Add, modify, clone, link, and prioritize issues.
• Move issues through the complete workflow lifecycle.
• Perform effective searches.
• Manage and customize screens and filters.

JIRA Software is a robust Project Management tool, yet users often focus more on the software than the underlying methodology.

This instructor-led live training demonstrates how Jira and Confluence work together to help teams successfully deliver products or projects. Participants will learn to utilize these tools effectively to streamline User Requirements, Testing, and Communication, all centralized in one location, thereby enhancing overall efficiency.

The curriculum covers JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, workflows, boards (Kanban & Scrum), planning, dependencies, Jira/Confluence integration, reporting, key fields, custom fields, issue types, screens, and filtering.

By the conclusion of this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Create a Scrum or Kanban project
• Configure Jira to manage the project effectively
• Manage issues with efficiency
• Design necessary screens to handle various issue types
• Create workflows and boards, and understand how they interact
• Conduct basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review essential reports for both the team and management

This trainer-led, live training in India (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 India (online or onsite) is designed for 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 conducted in India (online or onsite) is designed for beginners to intermediate-level professionals looking to enhance their Jira skills. The course covers integrating and utilizing the Xray plugin, managing user roles and permissions, optimizing data imports, and effectively handling 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.

Kanban serves as a robust workflow management methodology.

This instructor-led, live training, available both online and onsite, caters to participants at both introductory and advanced levels. The insights and tools acquired during this session can be directly integrated into your daily operations to enhance workflow efficiency.

Upon completing this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Boost the volume of work items completed within a given timeframe.
• Shorten the duration required to finish work items.
• Enhance work predictability (providing more accurate responses to "When will it be completed?").
• Manage key flow metrics, including throughput, lead time, work in progress, and work item age.
• Utilize flow charting tools such as the Cumulative Flow Diagram, Lead Time Histogram, and Work Aging Chart.
• Apply statistical forecasting techniques, including Monte Carlo simulations and Service Level Agreements.
• Design a Kanban System using a structured approach (STATIK).
• Comprehend Little's Law, which elucidates the nature of value flow.

This two-day course is tailored to assist teams within an Agile Release Train (ART) in operating effectively in an Agile environment by leveraging frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and XP. Participants will gain insights into functioning as Agile Teams, managing backlogs, and successfully planning and executing iterations. The course also highlights the team's role within the ART and emphasizes collaboration, planning, execution, and continuous improvement with other teams.

Training prepares teams to engage in a Program Increment (PI), covering both Team-level and Program-level events, with special emphasis on upcoming PI planning sessions. Completing the course also readies participants for the certification exam to become a SAFe® Practitioner (SP).

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

• Apply SAFe principles to scale Lean and Agile practices across the organization.
• Comprehend their team’s role within the Agile Release Train and its contribution to overall objectives.
• Identify other teams within the train, including their roles and interdependencies.
• Plan and execute iterations effectively.
• Demonstrate delivered value and continuously improve processes.
• Participate in and contribute to Program Increment planning.
• Collaborate and integrate work with other teams within the Agile Release Train.