Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence Training Course

This two-day course is designed for IT professionals who are interested in utilizing the Waterfall model and exploring how traditional methods, including but not limited to Agile approaches, have addressed its limitations.

The aim of the first day is to provide an overview of these methodologies, enabling participants to determine what might be most suitable for their environment.

The second day focuses on project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile that can be effectively applied in both Waterfall and Agile contexts. This course is tailored to enhance skills and knowledge for government IT professionals, ensuring alignment with public sector workflows and governance.

Business Analysis is the process of examining, understanding, and defining business needs to develop solutions that meet those needs. It is a key element in the process of managing organizational changes and designing new business solutions. Business analysis ensures that technological, process-related, or organizational solutions meet business goals and needs. It is crucial for the effectiveness of projects and organizational changes by ensuring that the introduced solutions are appropriate, feasible, and fully aligned with business requirements.

Who Should Attend?

This two-day course is designed for any IT professionals who are interested in implementing Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies to manage software development. It is particularly suited for project managers, team leaders, developers, and stakeholders in the software development process within the public sector. The course aims to enhance skills and knowledge for government professionals seeking to improve project management and delivery processes.

This course has been developed for government test managers, quality assurance staff, testers, software developers, project managers, and management to explain how Agile project management frameworks, notably SCRUM, address testing.

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

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

• Possess a comprehensive understanding of JIRA administration for government.
• Customize JIRA according to their specific business needs.
• Define and manage emails and notifications in JIRA.
• Manage and assign users, groups, and project roles effectively.
• Oversee JIRA permissions and security schemes.
• Perform JIRA troubleshooting to ensure system reliability.
• Deploy and customize the JIRA service desk to enhance service management.

Upon completing the training, participants will be equipped to independently manage, optimize, and customize JIRA for government environments.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire provides a comprehensive overview of the advanced capabilities of JIRA for government. The course covers creating and managing various types of JIRA projects, utilizing JIRA for agile methodologies, configuring agile boards, managing both built-in and custom fields, designing and implementing screens and filters, performing basic and advanced issue searches, applying screen schemes, managing and updating workflows, configuring and applying workflow schemes, conducting analysis, and generating reports.

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

• Manage issues effectively for government operations.
• Create and run Scrum and Kanban projects tailored to public sector needs.
• Manage built-in and custom fields to align with agency requirements.
• Understand and manage business processes, workflows, and workflow schemes for government.
• Perform basic and advanced searches and analysis to support decision-making.
• Generate and review reports to enhance transparency and accountability.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire provides an overview of JIRA's methodologies for software planning, tracking, and releasing, guiding participants through the creation and management of a JIRA project for government.

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

• Comprehend the concepts and functionality underlying JIRA's user interface and workflows for government.
• Add, modify, clone, link, and prioritize issues within a project.
• Advance issues through the entire workflow process.
• Conduct searches to retrieve specific information.
• Manage and customize screens and filters to align with public sector requirements.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level project managers who seek to create, execute, and manage forms in Jira effectively for government projects.

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

• Comprehend Jira's core concepts, including issue types, workflows, and projects, as they apply to public sector initiatives.
• Create and manage custom fields to efficiently collect and organize data for government workflows.
• Optimize form-related processes to support various project types and teams within the public sector.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level Jira administrators who wish to enhance their skills in utilizing Jira Service Management effectively.

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

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the core principles of Jira Service Management.
• Set up and configure a service desk, and manage requests efficiently.
• Manage the backend operations and integrations of Jira Service Management for government workflows.

This instructor-led, live training in US Empire (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner to intermediate-level professionals who wish to enhance their Jira skills for government 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 in government environments.
• Manage Jira user profiles and assign appropriate roles and permissions for government users.
• Efficiently import data into Jira following best practices for government operations.
• Optimize Jira storage usage and implement data management strategies for government systems.

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

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

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

• Understand the principles underlying Agile and Kanban methodologies
• Use Jira to create and manage a Kanban project effectively
• Customize Jira to meet the specific needs of their organization for government operations
• Conduct both basic and advanced searches and analyses within Jira
• Generate and review comprehensive reports to support decision-making processes

Audience

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

Format of the Course

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

Note

• To request a customized training for this course tailored to your specific needs for government, please contact us to arrange.

This course is also known as SCRUM awareness training.

Who should attend?

This course has been designed for government managers, executives, and other decision-makers who wish to understand how to calculate the benefits of implementing the methodology or gain insight into their team's activities.

It is also suitable for stakeholders in software development projects who are interested in having a more informed role in the development process for government initiatives.

This course is designed for: Product owners, managers, or anyone interested in Agile planning and estimating techniques for government.

The Scrum Product Owner (SPO) course utilizes a combination of presentations, discussions, and hands-on exercises to explain and demonstrate the role of an Agile team. It covers all aspects of a product owner's involvement in the life cycle of an Agile product, including gathering requirements rapidly, writing user stories, estimating story points, tracking progress, release planning, reporting, forecasting, scaling, and more.

Scrum is a popular method for managing projects within the Agile approach. Scrum is a framework that enables teams working on a project to deliver a valuable product in a flexible and efficient manner. The main features of Scrum are transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Scrum allows for quick responses to changes, flexible adaptation to client needs, and an iterative product development process, which often leads to better quality and client satisfaction. Roles within the team: Product Owner: A person representing the client's interests and defining task priorities in the product. Scrum Master: A person supporting the Scrum team, ensuring the process is followed and removing obstacles. Development Team: A team responsible for delivering the product.