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Configure software projects to support team efficiency

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duration

5 hours and 30 minutes

role

Jira Project Admin

level

Advanced

product

Jira

Meet your team’s needs

The following short, self-paced courses will help you customize Jira software projects according to your team’s needs. You’ll learn how to see your team’s work at a glance, maximize your team’s time, improve your team’s progress and performance, and accurately map and predict your team’s work.
This learning path is for:
  • Aspiring Jira software project admins
  • Experienced Jira software project admins looking to validate their knowledge
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5 courses in this learning path

30 minutes
Configure work items and fields in software projects

Categorize kinds of work with work types and track data on work items with fields. Then, modify default work types and create new ones based on your team’s needs.

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Lessons
  • Explore work types, fields, and screens in company-managed projects
  • Configure how fields appear on work items in company-managed projects
  • Configure work types, fields, and layouts in team-managed projects
50 minutes
Configure workflows and notifications in Jira projects

See your team’s work items at a glance and map progress with workflows. Then create basic and complex workflows, navigate workflow editors, and configure internal notifications in team-managed projects.

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Lessons
  • What are workflows in Jira?
  • Create basic workflows in Jira
  • Create complex workflows in Jira
  • Best practices for creating workflows in Jira
  • Configure internal notifications in team-managed projects
1 hour and 35 minutes
Streamline software projects with Jira automation and integrations

Maximize your time by automating manual tasks without coding.

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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 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.

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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

Maintain a single source of truth for your team’s ongoing work with plans in Jira.

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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

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