Agile Project Management with Kanban and Jira Training Course

Target group:

IT Director, Project Manager, Technical Team Leader, Analyst, Software Developer, Tester

Learning objective:

The aim of this training is to gain both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience with the core principles of Kanban and Agile methodologies.

This course is designed for professionals who seek to integrate Agile methodologies, particularly SCRUM, with Lean and Kanban principles to effectively oversee their projects.

It bridges the disciplines of product design and software development.

This instructor-led live training in Uzbekistan (available online or onsite) guides participants through the deployment of a JIRA instance. Attendees will learn advanced JIRA usage, including installation, configuration, upgrading, and migration. The course covers customizing JIRA for projects, managing users, groups, and project roles, configuring dashboards, defining emails and notifications, applying security schemes, managing permissions, and troubleshooting. Participants will also learn to install and customize the JIRA Service Desk, set up a knowledge base, manage service desk users, and collaboratively handle service requests.

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

• Gain an in-depth understanding of JIRA administration.
• Customize JIRA to meet their specific business needs.
• Define JIRA emails and notifications.
• Manage and assign users, groups, and project roles.
• Manage JIRA permissions and security schemes.
• Perform JIRA troubleshooting.
• Deploy and customize the JIRA Service Desk.

After completing the training, participants will be equipped to independently administer, optimize, and tailor JIRA within a corporate setting.

This instructor-led, live training in Uzbekistan introduces the advanced capabilities of JIRA, including creating and managing different types of JIRA projects, using JIRA for agile initiatives, configuring agile boards, managing built-in and custom fields, creating and managing screens and filters, performing basic and advanced issue searches, applying screen schemes, managing and updating workflows, configuring and applying workflow schemes, conducting 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 Uzbekistan introduces JIRA’s approach to software planning, tracking, and releasing, guiding participants through the creation and management of a JIRA project.

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

• Comprehend the concepts and functionality underlying JIRA's user interface and workflows.
• Add, modify, clone, link, and prioritize issues.
• Advance issues through the complete workflow lifecycle.
• Execute effective searches.
• Manage and customize screens and filters.

JIRA Software is a robust tool for project management, yet participants often focus more on the tool itself than on the underlying methodology.

This instructor-led, live training demonstrates how Jira and Confluence work in tandem to help teams successfully deliver products and projects. Participants will learn to utilize these tools efficiently for handling user requirements, testing, and communication, all within a centralized platform.

The curriculum covers JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, workflows, boards (Kanban and Scrum), planning, dependencies, Jira-Confluence integration, reporting, key fields, custom fields, issue types, screens, and filtering.

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

• Create Scrum or Kanban projects
• Configure Jira for effective project management
• Manage issues efficiently
• Design screens tailored to specific issue types
• Create workflows and boards, and understand their interaction
• Conduct basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports for both team and management needs

This instructor-led, live training in Uzbekistan (available online or on-site) is designed for intermediate-level project managers who aim to create, execute, and manage forms in Jira effectively.

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

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

This instructor-led, live training in Uzbekistan (online or on-site) is designed for intermediate-level Jira administrators who wish to learn how to use Jira Service Management effectively.

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 the Jira Service Management backend and integrations.

This instructor-led live training Uzbekistan (available online or on-site) targets beginner to intermediate professionals seeking to improve their Jira skills. The curriculum covers the integration and usage of the Xray plugin, management of user roles and permissions, optimization of data imports, and effective storage management.

By the end 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.

Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a highly interactive two-day course that combines teaching, group discussions and a fully immersive simulation to illustrate how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams, and organisations to manage and improve the delivery of products and services to their customers.

The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It starts with what you do now and pursues evolutionary change while respecting current roles, responsibilities and job titles, and encouraging leadership at all levels. This allows organisations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programmes.

You will leave this course with knowledge of the Kanban principles and general practices, and skills that will enable you to apply Kanban with confidence in your organisation.

What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse demand vs capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualisations
- Identify and prioritise improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Who Is This Course For?
Anyone who is involved in product development or knowledge work. This includes but is not limited to the following:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organisation

This training provides hands-on experience with preparing and utilizing Kanban boards to effectively plan and track the progress of processes and projects. It is designed for individuals seeking to enhance their skills in process and project monitoring, including project participants, process owners, and project managers. The program combines theoretical instruction with workshops and practical examples.

Kanban is a workflow management method.

This instructor-led, live training (online or on-site) is designed for both beginner and advanced-level participants. The knowledge and tools provided can be applied in your daily work to optimise workflow efficiency.

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

• Increase the number of work items completed per unit of time.
• Reduce the time required to complete work items.
• Improve work predictability (providing better answers to "When will it be done?").
• Manage flow metrics (throughput, lead time, work in progress, work item age).
• Use flow charts (Cumulative Flow Diagram, Lead Time Histogram, Work Age Chart).
• Apply statistical forecasting methods, such as Monte Carlo simulations and Service Level Agreements.
• Design a Kanban System in a methodical way (STATIK).
• Understand Little's Law, which describes the nature of value flow.

Over the course of two days, this program is tailored to assist teams within an Agile Release Train (ART) in operating efficiently within an Agile framework by leveraging methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and XP. Attendees will gain insights into functioning as an Agile team, managing backlogs, and successfully planning and executing iterations. A key emphasis is placed on comprehending the team's role within the ART, as well as how to collaborate, plan, execute, and continuously improve alongside other teams.

The training equips teams to engage in Program Increments (PI), addressing both Team-level and Program-level events, with a special focus on preparing for PI planning sessions. Upon completing the course, participants will be ready to take the certification exam to achieve the SAFe® Practitioner (SP) credential.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be capable of:

• Implementing SAFe principles to scale Lean and Agile practices throughout the organization.
• Understanding their team’s role within the Agile Release Train and its contribution to overall objectives.
• Identifying other teams within the train, including their roles and interdependencies.
• Effectively planning and executing iterations.
• Showing delivered value and continuously enhancing processes.
• Participating in and contributing to Program Increment planning.
• Collaborating and integrating work with other teams within the Agile Release Train.

Are you struggling with implementing Agile in your organization? Is the change too prescriptive? Are your teams overburdened and less productive, yet still too resistant for a revolutionary change?

Choose the “Alternative Path to Agility” and implement an evolutionary, people-centric Change Management Method that doesn’t change your process but improves it.

The Kanban Method offers pragmatic, actionable, and evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It begins with what you do now, respecting existing roles, responsibilities, and job titles. This enables organizations to gradually evolve business processes, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programs.

If your team feels overwhelmed, Kanban can help you regain control of your work. Kanban is a powerful technique for dynamically managing your process and uncovering bottlenecks.

This training equips you with the skills and knowledge needed to apply Kanban in your work, learn how to prioritize what to focus on now, what to defer, and what to remove from your to-do list permanently.

Learning Outcomes

This 1-day course introduces the fundamentals of the Kanban Method® and serves as the entry point and starting foundation for an alternative path to agility.

By the end of the course, attendees should be familiar with the Kanban Method. They should be able to design and implement a basic Kanban board, understand work item types and the risks associated with specific items, and recognize various Team Kanban board designs and styles to choose the most suitable one for their context. They should also be aware of the training roadmap and understand the value and benefits derived at each step along the “alternative path to agility.”

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for any professional working in a product development or knowledge-based environment who is interested in discovering how Kanban can improve working conditions. Kanban is effective across multiple functions within an organization, from senior leaders aiming to adopt Lean Management to delivery team members seeking to enhance their working practices. Past participants have come from roles such as:

• Senior Management Positions (CxO)
• Program and Project Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts
• Scrum Team Members
• Scrum Masters, Team Leads, and Change Agents
• Product & Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Other roles, including HR and Finance professionals