Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence Training Course

This two-day course is designed for IT professionals interested in understanding the Waterfall model and exploring how its traditional shortcomings have been addressed, including through Agile methodologies.

Day one provides an overview of various approaches, helping you determine which might best suit your organizational environment.

On day two, we examine project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile, demonstrating how they can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile contexts.

The "Scrum for an Advanced Scrum Master + PSM II Preparation" course is aimed at experienced Scrum Masters who wish to expand their competencies, gain a deeper understanding of how Scrum works, and become true leaders in the agile approach. The course covers the interpretation of the Scrum Guide according to Scrum.org's vision, which is crucial in the context of the PSM II exam. Participants gain practical knowledge about complexity, the empirical approach, Scrum values, and the role of the Scrum Master as a leader. Additionally, the course prepares participants for the PSM II exam, which is based on the latest version of the Scrum Guide.

This course targets the business analyst’s role in ensuring success on Agile projects. Participants will learn how to collaborate with the Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Customer to facilitate the development process. Participants will work through a mock project to practice common scenarios.

Who should attend?

This two-day course is ideal for IT professionals eager to implement Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies for managing software development. It is particularly beneficial for project managers, team leaders, developers, and software development clients who wish to have a stakeholding in the development process.

This course is designed for test managers, quality assurance professionals, testers, software developers, project managers, and management to explain how Agile project management frameworks, particularly SCRUM, handle testing.

By the end of the course, each participant will design and execute a test plan for a sample application (which can be a real client application if available).

This intensive two-day program offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers fundamental testing concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore the modern principles and practices of Agile testing.

Intended Audience

This course is designed for development teams aiming to enhance their testing practices within an Agile environment.

It is also appropriate for individuals planning to pursue testing as a dedicated career path and serves as a suitable prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

This training course for Certified Scrum Master focuses on providing a comprehensive understanding of Scrum methodology and implementation. This CSM training program will help you earn recognition as a certified ScrumMaster, as awarded by the Scrum Alliance to professionals worldwide who have completed the CSM training and successfully passed the exam.

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE (online or onsite) guides participants through the deployment of a JIRA instance. Attendees will master advanced JIRA usage, including installation, configuration, upgrading, and migration. The course covers customizing JIRA for specific projects, managing users, groups, and project roles, configuring dashboards, setting up emails and notifications, applying security schemes, managing permissions, and performing troubleshooting. Additionally, participants will learn to install and customize the JIRA Service Desk, establish a knowledge base, manage service desk users, and collaborate on service requests.

By the conclusion of this training, participants will be capable of:

• Gaining a comprehensive understanding of JIRA administration.
• Tailoring JIRA to meet specific business requirements.
• Defining JIRA emails and notification settings.
• Managing and assigning users, groups, and project roles.
• Overseeing JIRA permissions and security schemes.
• Conducting JIRA troubleshooting.
• Deploying and customizing the JIRA Service Desk.

Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be equipped to independently manage, optimize, and customize JIRA within a corporate setting.

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE introduces the advanced capabilities of JIRA, including creating and managing different types of JIRA projects, using JIRA for agile projects, configuring agile boards, managing built-in and custom fields, creating and managing screens and filters, performing basic and advanced issue searching, applying screen schemes, managing and updating workflows, configuring and applying workflow schemes, performing analysis and generating reports.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Manage issues effectively.
• Create and run Scrum and Kanban projects.
• Manage built-in and custom fields.
• Understand and manage business processes, workflows and workflow schemes.
• Perform basic and advanced searches and analysis.
• Generate and review reports.

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE introduces JIRA's approach to software planning, tracking and releasing as it walks participants through the creation and management of a JIRA project.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand concepts and functionality behind JIRA's user interface and workflows.
• Add, modify, clone, link, and prioritize issues.
• Progress issues through the entire workflow.
• Perform searches.
• Manage and customize screens and filters.

This instructor-led live training in the UAE (online or onsite) targets intermediate project managers seeking to effectively create, execute, and manage forms within Jira.

By the end of the training, participants will:

• Understand Jira’s core concepts, including issue types, workflows, and projects.
• Develop and manage custom fields to collect and organize data effectively.
• Optimize form-related processes for various project types and teams.

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE (online or onsite) is tailored for intermediate-level Jira administrators who aim to utilize Jira Service Management efficiently.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn and understand the fundamentals of Jira Service Management.
• Set up and configure a service desk and manage requests.
• Manage Jira Service Management backend and integration.

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE (online or onsite) is designed for beginner to intermediate professionals seeking to upgrade their Jira expertise. The course covers integrating and utilizing the Xray plugin, managing user roles and permissions, optimizing data imports, and handling storage management effectively.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Integrate and configure the Xray plugin for test management.
• Manage Jira user profiles and assign appropriate roles and permissions.
• Efficiently import data into Jira following best practices.
• Optimize Jira storage usage and implement data management strategies.

Jira is a Java-based web application designed to enhance the agility of software development through robust project and issue tracking capabilities.

In this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to leverage Jira to implement a Kanban approach to Agile practices within their organization.

By the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the core principles underlying Agile and Kanban methodologies
• Utilize Jira to create and manage Kanban projects
• Tailor Jira to align with the specific requirements of their organization
• Execute basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review comprehensive reports

Audience

• Product managers
• Software developers
• Test engineers
• Business analysts

Course Format

• A blend of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• To request a customized training session for this course, please contact us to make arrangements.