Scrum Development with Jira & JIRA Agile
A great idea is important, but execution is key! Improve your chances of success with Scrum and JIRA Agile.
What you'll learn
Having a great idea is just the start, implementation and execution are key. Improve your chances of success by using Agile development methodology and support your efforts with the right tools: Jira and Jira Agile (formerly GreenHopper). This course covers the following PMBOK® Process Groups: Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling. This course covers the following PMBOK® Knowledge Areas: Project Time Management, Project Quality Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications Management.
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Course FAQ
Jira (sometimes referred to as Jira Agile) is a tool developed by Atlassian to help teams manage their work. It was originally used just to track issues and bugs, but has evolved into helping with all kinds of use cases, including agile software development.
Basically agile software development refers to an iterative approach to software delivery based on building and delivering the software piece by piece from start to finish, rather than all at once at the end. Being "agile" means having collaborative efforts and cross-functional teams.
Scrum is an agile framework for project management founded on principles of teamwork, accountability, and repeatable steps towards a goal. The term "scrum" is intended to stress the importance of working as a team in complex product development.
You will learn about the concepts of Scrum development with Jira & Jira Agile, including:
- What is agile development
- The Scrum framework
- JIRA for Agile Scrum
- Getting started with Jira
- Sprint planning and Sprint retrospective
- Daily Scrum with work mode
- Much more
This course is for everyone who wants to learn the scrum framework with the help of Jira and Jira Agile tools. If you want to improve your project management and software delivery process, this course is for you!
About the author
Xavier is very passionate about teaching, helping others understand search and Big Data. He is also an entrepreneur, project manager, technical author, trainer, and holds a few certifications with Cloudera, Microsoft, and the Scrum Alliance, along with being a Microsoft MVP. He has spent a great deal of his career working on cutting-edge projects with a primary focus on .NET, Solr, and Hadoop among a few other interesting technologies. Throughout multiple projects, he has acquired skills to deal... more