Course Code: bspjira
Duration: 14 hours
Prerequisites:

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Overview:

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Course Outline:

Day 1

  • Introductions & ice breaker
  • Retrospection - what is working well and what can be improved
  • Interactive activity to explore agile history, the manifesto & principles
  • Why scrum?  Scrum v traditional/waterfall approach
  • Scrum theory - accountabilities, events, outputs (whiteboard)
  • Jira projects & Scrum - will require access to a Jira instance
  • Backlogs in Jira
  • Scrum activity - a “game” to explore scrum more fully
  • Running scrum sprints though Jira (in tandem with above activity)
  • Confluence for sprint reporting

Day 2

  • Kanban overview & activity
  • Kanban practices (whiteboard)
  • Kanban boards in Jira - will require access to Jira instance
  • Backlogs, roadmaps & user stories
  • Configuring Jira for work breakdown
  • Sizing & planning in agile - points
  • Reporting & velocity through burndown and burnup
  • Introduction to dashboards in Jira
  • Basic agile scaling - co-ordination & dependency management