course

Configure Jira boards to match your workflow


duration

35 minutes

role

Jira Board Admin

level

Intermediate

product

Jira

Represent how your team gets things done

Configure your board to best suit your team’s workflow. Within the board, you can customize columns to prevent bottlenecks, optimize your team’s capacity, and closely track progress. You can also plan and prioritize upcoming work and group progress by a variety of categories.
After this course, you’ll be able to:
  • Organize your board’s columns so they reflect each stage your team’s work will require.
  • Map work statuses within each column.
  • Plan and prioritize upcoming work using kanban and scrum backlogs.
  • Use swimlanes to group work for better visability.
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3 Lessons in this course

15 minutes
Configure Jira board columns and statuses

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Differentiate between columns and statuses - Customize columns to match your workflow - Use column constraints to prevent bottlenecks - Describe the impacts of mapping statuses to columns


Sections
  • Match your board to your workflow
  • Configure columns
  • Configure statuses
10 minutes
Use backlogs for planning

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Compare scrum and kanban backlogs - Prioritize work by using ranking in the backlog


Sections
  • Use the backlog to plan upcoming work
  • Prioritize your team’s work with ranking
10 minutes
Use swimlanes to group work on a company-managed Jira board

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Use swimlanes to better visualize work - Describe swimlane grouping methods


Sections
  • Use swimlanes to group work for better visibility
  • Let's explore an example!

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