Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence Training Course

This intensive two-day programme is designed for IT professionals eager to understand the Waterfall model and explore how its limitations have traditionally been addressed, including through Agile methodologies.

On the first day, participants will receive a comprehensive overview of these methodologies, empowering them to determine which approach best fits their organisational environment.

The second day focuses on project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile principles, which can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile contexts.

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

The 'Scrum for the Advanced Scrum Master + PSM II Preparation' training is aimed at experienced Scrum Masters who want to broaden their competencies, gain a deeper understanding of how Scrum works, and become true agile leaders. The course covers the interpretation of the Scrum Guide in alignment with Scrum.org's vision, which is critical in the context of the PSM II exam. Participants gain practical knowledge on completeness, the empirical approach, 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 programme emphasizes the critical role of the business analyst in delivering successful Agile initiatives. Learners will acquire skills to collaborate effectively with the development team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and clients to streamline the delivery process. The course includes a simulated project where participants practice handling typical scenarios.

Who Should Attend?

This intensive two-day course is designed for IT professionals eager to adopt Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies for managing software development projects. It is especially beneficial for project managers, team leaders, developers, and software development clients who wish to gain active involvement in the development process.

This course is designed for test managers, quality assurance professionals, testers, software developers, project managers, and management personnel to explain how Agile project management frameworks, particularly SCRUM, approach 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 Agile software testing. It covers fundamental test concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development, utilising Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to examine contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

Intended Audience

This course is designed for development teams aiming to enhance their testing practices within an Agile environment.

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

This instructor-led, live training in Malaysia (online or onsite) guides participants through the deployment of a JIRA instance. The curriculum covers advanced JIRA usage, installation, configuration, upgrading, and migration. Participants will learn to customize JIRA for their projects, manage users, groups, and project roles, configure dashboards, set up email notifications, apply security schemes, manage permissions, and perform troubleshooting. The course also includes installing and customizing JIRA Service Desk, establishing a knowledge base, managing service desk users, and collaboratively handling service requests.

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

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of JIRA administration.
• Customize JIRA to align with specific business requirements.
• Configure JIRA emails and notifications.
• Oversee and assign users, groups, and project roles.
• Manage JIRA permissions and security schemes.
• Conduct JIRA troubleshooting.
• Deploy and tailor the JIRA Service Desk.

Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be equipped to independently manage, optimise, and customise JIRA within a corporate environment.

This instructor-led live training in Malaysia 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 Malaysia introduces JIRA's approach to software planning, tracking, and releasing as it guides participants through the creation and management of a JIRA project.

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

• Understand the 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 Malaysia (online or onsite) targets intermediate project managers seeking to effectively create, execute, and manage forms in Jira.

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

• Grasp core Jira concepts such as issue types, workflows, and projects.
• Design and manage custom fields to efficiently collect and structure data.
• Streamline form-related processes for diverse project types and teams.

This instructor-led live training in Malaysia (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:

• Gain a solid understanding of the core concepts of Jira Service Management.
• Set up and configure a service desk, including managing incoming requests.
• Administer the Jira Service Management backend and manage integrations.

This instructor-led, live training session in Malaysia (online or onsite) is tailored for beginner to intermediate professionals seeking to enhance their Jira skills. The curriculum covers integrating and utilizing the Xray plugin, managing user roles and permissions, optimizing data imports, and handling storage management effectively.

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.

JIRA is a Java-based web application designed to facilitate project and issue tracking, thereby enhancing the agility of software development processes.

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