Example tickets for Agile Training

[Kate]

I have a few teams that are interested in integrating their approach to Agile into Jira, so I have been running a few training sessions to show them what's possible and how the tool works.

One of the challenges that I have been facing is setting up a good example set of tickets at an Epic/Task to utilise in order to show them the tool. I've had a few situations recently where the users have gotten a little too hung-up on the example I'm using and it gets in the way of the training.

Does anyone have a good templated list of example tickets I could borrow/steal to load into Jira for these sessions? Any advise around this?

[Teale]

I like to use the analogy of chapters in a book. Stories, Issues or Tasks make up the chapters, while the overarching novel is the Epic. 

An individual task should be a smaller subset of work that can be completed within your active Sprint, while an Epic can contain tasks that run over multiple sprints.

Example

Scenario: A Knight trying to rescue a missing princess.  

Epic: Rescue the princess

Tasks/ Stories: 

• Aquire a horse 
• Polish and sharpen sword 
• Find the map to the princess's location 
• Travel to the location
• Defeat the dragon guarding the princess
• Transport the princess home 

You could adapt this to your team by getting them to think about a popular movie or novel that aligns with their interests and ask them if XYZ Movie / Book was an Epic, what would the hero's tasks be? 

[Thomas Pleli]

Hi Kate,

what I like to do is to, is to combine work with confluence:

I would write the estimated tasks in a list and summarize the planned tasks/ideas in a table. This format is helpful in the sense of appropriate planing/brainstorming and documentation.

You can now publish the page.

Mark the first line that you want to have as a task.

An option window will appear offering you to generate a task.

Here you can choose if the task should be an epic, story,....

Additionally, you can select the option to generate multiple tasks from the table. With this option, Jira automatically recognize all lines in your table beneath the first line you have selected initially.

With this option you will generate fast a list of tasks. In Jira you can later group them in an Epic.

Hope this is helpful.

Best regards

Thomas