learning path

Configure Atlassian tools and practices for developer flow

duration

7 hours and 10 minutes

role

Jira Project Admin

level

Intermediate

product

Jira

Support your development team’s productivity and morale

The following short, self-paced courses will guide you as you create, configure, and maintain team-managed and company-managed Jira projects. You’ll also learn how to streamline development work with Jira automations, built-in apps and integrations, plans in Jira (formerly known as Advanced Roadmaps), Jira reports, and other useful tracking tools.
You may also want to check out our Support your flow state: Atlassian tools and practices for developers learning path, which helps developers get the most out of Jira features and functions.
This learning path is for:
  • Intermediate Jira users or developers who want to plan, manage, and track projects efficiently
  • Development team leaders who want to set up Jira projects to help their developers be more productive
  • Experienced Jira admins or developers looking to validate their knowledge
  • Teams using Jira
The availability of features and functionality shown in this learning path depends on your product subscription. To learn more about Atlassian product subscriptions, visit our FAQs.

7 courses in this learning path

20 minutes
Create and maintain a Jira project to best support your team

Learn how to choose the Jira project type and template that will best support your team and company needs. Then, successfully maintain your project with our best practices.

Lessons
  • Compare company-managed projects and team-managed projects in Jira
  • Choose a project template in Jira
  • Best practices for Jira project administration
55 minutes
Make information easily accessible in Jira projects

Configure the board layout, work item fields, and notification settings in Jira projects to match your team’s workflow.

Lessons
  • Configure Jira board columns and statuses
  • Use swimlanes to group work on a company-managed Jira board
  • Configure how fields appear on work items in company-managed projects
  • Configure work types, fields, and layouts in team-managed projects
  • Customize card layouts for a Jira board
  • Configure internal notifications in team-managed projects
1 hour and 35 minutes
Streamline software projects with Jira automation and integrations

Automate manual tasks without coding using Jira automation.

Lessons
  • What is automation?
  • Build simple automation rules
  • Create automation rules using natural language
  • Create complex automation rules with smart values and branches
  • Best practices for managing Jira automation rules
  • Create Jira automation rules for developer productivity
  • Create Jira automation rules for incident management
  • Discover new apps and integrations for Jira
  • Integrate key development tools with Jira
1 hour and 40 minutes
Track and improve metrics for your software project

Identify obstacles, measure progress and performance, and keep an eye on everything happening in Jira.

Lessons
  • Reporting for DevOps
  • Track sprint progress with the Burndown Chart
  • View completed sprint work with the Sprint Report
  • Make better workload estimations with the Velocity Chart
  • Track a projected release with the Release Burndown
  • Track cycle time with the Control Chart
  • Use Insights in Jira
  • Create basic dashboards in Jira
  • Configure advanced Jira dashboards
  • Configure data sources for Jira dashboards
  • Share dashboards in Jira
55 minutes
Visualize work across teams with plans in Jira

Learn how to maintain a single source of truth for your team’s ongoing work with plans in Jira.

Lessons
  • What are plans in Jira?
  • Create plans in Jira
  • Automatically schedule work with plans in Jira
  • Define dependencies between work with plans in Jira
  • Configure releases with plans in Jira
  • Plan experimentally with scenarios in Jira
  • Configure views and share plans in Jira
35 minutes
How to run effective meetings

Lead efficient meetings that have clear goals, keep your attendees actively engaged, and use the Atlassian Playbook to improve meeting success.

Lessons
  • What is an effective meeting?
  • How to determine if you need a meeting
  • How to prepare for a meeting
  • How to facilitate a meeting
  • What to do after your meeting ends
  • Simple tips to run better meetings

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