Agile Project Management with Kanban and Jira - Bespoke

• An understanding of project management concepts (workflows, etc.)
• Experience working in team projects

JIRA is a Java based web application that provides project and issue tracking for improving the agility of software development.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use 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.

== Day 01 ==

Introduction to Agile

• Why Agile?
• What are the main objectives of Agile?
• Agile vs Kanban vs Scrum
• How Agile can help?

Command & Control vs. Agile

• Factory model
• The functioning of canon
• The functioning of missile
• Pillars of Kanban
• Big Picture

Process

• Concepts behind Kanban
• Kanban Rules
• Metrics
• Flow Diagram
• + technical practices 

Team work

• Shared responsibility
• Self-organization
• Interdisciplinary
• Benefit the "right" team work

Kanban Board

• How to visualize process?
• How to create Kanban Board?
• What are and how to introduce WIP limits?
• What are and how to introduce Classes of Service?

Customer Engagement

• The most common waste
• Value Stream

Waste

• Value Stream Mapping
• Waste analysis
• Main concepts behind Kaizen (MUDA / MURI / MURA)
• Bottlenecks analysis
• Five Focusing Steps

Simulation

• Simulation game
• Discussions
• Advanced topics

== Day 02 ==

Creating a Kanban Project

• Overview of the Kanban board
• Creating a new board vs copying an existing

Configuring a Workflow 

• Backlog, Selected for Development, In Progress, Done

The Backlog

• Adding Tasks, Bugs, and User Stories to the Backlog

The Movement of Work

• Moving Work through Development, In Progress, and Done
• Limiting Work In Progress using Column Constraints

Reports for Kanban Projects

• Monitoring Team Progress with the Control Chart
• Visualizing Team Progress using the Cumulative Flow Diagram

Carrying out Search and Analysis

• Risk Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Time Analysis, etc.
• The Jira Query Language (JQL)

Customizing Jira

• Kanban boards, swim lanes, look and feel, etc.

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion