Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence Training Course

This two-day course is designed for IT professionals interested in exploring the Waterfall model and understanding how practitioners have traditionally addressed its limitations—including the adoption of Agile approaches.

The first day provides an overview of these methodologies, helping you determine which might best fit your organizational environment.

On the second day, we examine project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile that can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile contexts.

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

The training "Scrum for an Advanced Scrum Master + PSM II Preparation" 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 the interpretation of the Scrum Guide aligned with Scrum.org’s vision, which is crucial for the PSM II exam context. Participants gain practical knowledge regarding holistic Scrum, empirical approaches, Scrum 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 emphasizes the business analyst's role in ensuring 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 mock project where participants practice handling common scenarios.

Who should attend?

This two-day course is designed for any IT professionals interested in implementing Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies to oversee software development. It is especially beneficial for project managers, team leaders, developers, and customers involved in software development who wish to have a stake in the development process.

This course is designed for test managers, quality assurance personnel, testers, software developers, project managers, and management teams to explain how Agile project management frameworks (particularly SCRUM) address testing.

By the end of the course, each participant will design and execute a test plan for a sample application (which can be an actual client application, if available).

This two-day course offers a concise introduction to software testing within Agile environments. It covers essential testing concepts in the context of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore modern principles and practices of Agile testing.

Intended Audience

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

It is also suitable for individuals pursuing a career in testing and serves as a prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

This instructor-led live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) walks participants through the deployment of a JIRA instance. Participants will learn the advanced usage of JIRA, JIRA installation, configuration, upgrading and migration, how to customize JIRA for their projects, add, manage and assign users, groups and project roles, configure and manage dashboards, define emails and notifications, apply JIRA security schemes, manage JIRA permissions, perform JIRA troubleshooting, install and customize 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:

• Have an in-depth understanding of JIRA administration.
• Customize JIRA based on their own business needs.
• Define JIRA emails and notifications.
• Manage and assign users, groups, 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 able to independently manage, optimize, and customize JIRA in a corporate setting.

This instructor-led live training in Taiwan introduces the advanced capabilities of JIRA, including creating and managing various types of JIRA projects, utilizing JIRA for agile projects, configuring agile boards, managing built-in and custom fields, creating and managing screens and filters, performing basic and advanced issue searches, 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 Taiwan 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 Taiwan (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level project managers who aim to create, execute, and manage forms in Jira effectively.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

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

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (available online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level Jira administrators who wish to learn how to utilize Jira Service Management effectively.

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

• Learn and understand the core concepts of Jira Service Management.
• Configure a service desk and handle request management.
• Manage the backend and integrations of Jira Service Management.

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) is designed for beginner to intermediate-level professionals seeking to elevate their Jira skills. Participants will learn how to integrate and leverage the Xray plugin, manage user roles and permissions, optimize data imports, and effectively handle storage management.

Upon completion 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 services, thereby enhancing the agility of software development.

In 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:

• Understand the principles behind Agile and Kanban
• Use Jira to create and manage a Kanban project
• Customize Jira to fit the needs of their organization
• Perform basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports

Audience

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

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

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