Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence Training Course

Designed for IT professionals keen on exploring the Waterfall model and addressing its traditional limitations, this two-day course covers solutions ranging from Agile approaches to other methodologies.

The first day provides an overview of these various approaches, helping you determine which might best fit your specific environment.

On the second day, the focus shifts to project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile, demonstrating how they can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile frameworks.

Business analysis is the process of researching, understanding, and defining business needs in order to develop solutions that meet those needs. It is a key element in the change management process in 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 is a crucial element in ensuring the effectiveness of projects and changes in an organization by ensuring that the introduced solutions are accurate, feasible, and fully aligned with business requirements.

The "Scrum for the Advanced Scrum Master + PSM II Preparation" course 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 interpretation of the Scrum Guide in line with Scrum.org's vision, which is crucial in the context of the PSM II exam. Participants gain practical knowledge about empirical approach, Scrum's value proposition, 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 is designed to equip business analysts with the skills needed to excel in Agile project environments. Participants will learn how to effectively collaborate with the development team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and customers to streamline the development process. The curriculum includes a simulated project where participants can practice handling common real-world scenarios.

Who is this course for?

Designed for IT professionals eager to apply Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies to software development, this two-day course is ideal for project managers, team leaders, developers, and customers who wish to actively engage in the development process.

Designed for test managers, QA personnel, testers, software developers, project managers, and executive leadership, this course clarifies how Agile project management frameworks—particularly SCRUM—incorporate testing practices.

By the conclusion of the training, participants will have designed and executed a test plan for a sample application (which may be a real client application, if available).

This two-day course offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers foundational test concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and utilizes Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore the contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

Target Audience

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

It is also ideal for individuals planning to pursue testing as a dedicated career path and serves as a recommended prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

This instructor-led live training in Turkey (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 how to customize JIRA for their projects, manage users, groups, and project roles, configure dashboards, define emails and notifications, apply security schemes, manage permissions, and perform troubleshooting. Furthermore, the course includes installing and customizing the JIRA Service Desk, setting up a knowledge base, managing service desk users, and handling service requests collaboratively.

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

• Develop an in-depth understanding of JIRA administration.
• Customize JIRA according to their specific business needs.
• Define JIRA emails and notifications.
• Manage and assign users, groups, and project roles.
• Manage JIRA permissions and security schemes.
• Perform JIRA troubleshooting.
• Deploy and customize the JIRA Service Desk.

Upon completing the training, participants will be able to independently manage, optimize, and customize JIRA within a corporate environment.

This instructor-led, live training in Turkey 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 Turkey 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 Turkey (offered online or onsite) is designed for intermediate project managers looking to proficiently create, execute, and manage forms in Jira.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Comprehend Jira’s core concepts, including issue types, workflows, and projects.
• Develop and manage custom fields to streamline data collection and organization.
• Optimize form workflows to fit various project types and team dynamics.

This instructor-led, live training in Turkey (online or onsite) targets intermediate-level Jira administrators who wish to learn how to utilize Jira Service Management efficiently.

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

• Learn and understand the fundamentals of Jira Service Management.
• Set up and configure a service desk and manage requests.
• Manage Jira Service Management backend and integration.

This instructor-led live training in Turkey (online or onsite) is targeted at beginner to intermediate professionals who want to improve their Jira skills by learning how to integrate and use the Xray plugin, manage user roles and permissions, optimize data imports, and effectively manage storage.

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 for project and issue tracking, enhancing the agility of software development processes.

Through this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to leverage Jira to implement a Kanban-based Agile approach within their organization.

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

• Grasp the fundamental principles of Agile and Kanban
• Create and manage Kanban projects using Jira
• Tailor Jira configurations to meet organizational requirements
• Conduct basic and advanced searches and analyses
• Generate and evaluate reports

Target Audience

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

Course Format

• A combination of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• For customized training requests, please contact us to make arrangements.