Course Summary
This course gives game producers the essential skills and strategies to effectively utilise Jira as a work management tool tailored to game development.
Learn how to organise tasks, manage workflows, and streamline team collaboration to improve project tracking and delivery. With a focus on practical application, this course covers everything from basic Jira terminology to advanced features and best practices for optimising team productivity.
By the end of this course, game producers will be equipped to use Jira confidently, enabling better task management, communication, and project delivery within game development teams.
Course leader: Daria Bagina
With over 15 years of experience and a decade spent in digital transformation and change management, Daria is now a consulting professional, Scrum trainer, coach, and facilitator with expertise in Jira. Her mission as a trainer is to help individuals and teams succeed in their Agile journeys. She is passionate about supporting professionals and organisations in creating high-performing teams using Agile and Scrum practices.
Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of Mastering Jira
- Introduction
Module 2: Setting the stage for your Jira use
- Defining the case for Jira for your team
- Basic Jira Hierarchy
- Anatomy of an Issue in Jira
- Navigating the Boards
- Using filters
- Good practices using Jira
Module 3: Creating the appropriate Jira structure
- Deciding on your key structures
- Setting up and customising your work types
- Creating relevant workflows
- Components and labels to organise
- Version to forecast delivery dates
Module 4: Learning the functionality
- Product Backlog organisation
- Handling and visualising dependencies
- Facilitating communication with the use of dashboards
- Running a sprint planning
Module 5: Expanding your use of Jira
- Considering the limitations
- Confluence as a perfect companion to Jira
- Confluence example for Team Wiki
Module 6: Conclusion
- Final thoughts on Jira
