Board configuration
15 min
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This lesson contains exam hints about configuring boards. You will also explore sandbox challenges to give you a hands-on experience to prepare you for various kinds of scenario-based questions in the exam.
Exam hints
Keep these hints in mind as your prepare for your exam. They cover essential areas that will guide you while you tackle the questions effectively and will help you navigate the exam with confidence.
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Sandbox challenges
To pass the exam, technical knowledge of managing Jira projects is crucial, but it is not enough. The majority of exam questions are based on scenarios that must be understood, analyzed, and evaluated to find the correct answer that fits the stated constraints.
The following challenges will assist you in exploring scenarios with configuring a Kanban and Scrum board and creating a cross-project Kanban board. They will help to develop your approach and prompt you to investigate different methods and solutions as you prepare for the exam.
Configure a Kanban board
In this challenge, you will configure the Kanban board for a company-managed project.
- Add another user as a board admin.
- Modify the sub-filter to hide completed issues with a Low priority.
- Create an issue with a Low priority and transition it to Done. Refresh the board to see the impact.
- Add a new status and column.
- Transition issues into the new status.
- Add a backlog view with the Epics panel enabled.
- How do issues that were already associated with a version and/or epic appear in the backlog?
- Drag issues into versions and epics.
- View how versions and epics are displayed on cards.
- Remove a column that contains issues. Where did the status move to?
- Add column constraints to an In Progress column and transition issues into it.
- Add issues to the column to view the impact when the max is exceeded
- Remove issues from the column to view the impact when the minimum is not met.
- Add quick filters based on queries, using the Priority field.
- Add card colors based on queries, using the Color field.
- Update the card layout to add a field to the backlog view and a different field to the Kanban board.
- Update the issue detail view to add, move, and remove fields.
Configure a scrum board
In this challenge, you will configure and work in a scrum board for a company-managed project.
To complete this, the project will need to contain issues with estimates in story points, that also have sub-tasks. If time allows, look at the Sprint Report two or three days after the sprint has started for clarity.
- Rank issues in the backlog. (Remember that you must be in a project role that has the Schedule issues permission, in case this was changed in an earlier challenge.)
- Create a two-week sprint, add estimated issues with sub-tasks, and start the sprint.
- Configure the board to have swimlanes:
- By assignee
- By story
- By query
- Add an estimated story to the sprint and see how the Sprint Report is impacted.
- Log work on some of the issues in the sprint, including adding a remaining estimate. Change the estimation statistic to use Time Tracking and see how the Sprint Report is impacted.
- Change the estimation statistic to Issue Count, with Time Tracking set to None, and see how the Sprint Report is impacted.
- Update Working days to add a non-working day in the middle of the sprint and see how the Sprint Report is impacted.
- Complete the sprint with unresolved issues and unresolved sub-tasks. What happens to them?
Create a cross-project Kanban board
For this challenge, you will need two company-managed projects with issues associated to epics and versions.
- Create and share a filter that includes two company-managed projects.
- Create a Kanban board from the filter with a backlog view, with the Epics panel enabled.
- Compare the backlog and board views to the single project boards for the two projects.
- Explore the versions and epics panels. What is the same? What is different?
- Use the board configuration to help visualize the project for each issue.
- Configure quick filters, swimlanes, card colors, and card layout to distinguish cards by project.
- In the backlog, drag a story into an epic from a different project. What was the result and why?
- In the backlog, drag a story into a version from a different project. What was the result and why?
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