Jira Project Management: Free Course

About this course

Use Jira to make work, responsibility and progress easier to follow. This free Learn Skills Daily course contains the complete beginner, intermediate and advanced tutorials, providing an ordered introduction for learners working with projects, issues and Agile team workflows.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Understand the purpose of a Jira issue and the information needed to describe and track work.
• Relate boards, backlogs and workflow stages to the way an Agile team organises tasks.
• Use the intermediate and advanced sessions to explore more demanding planning and tracking features.
• Review whether a workflow and its reports communicate progress clearly enough to support a team conversation.

Skills you’ll gain

• Jira navigation
• Issue tracking
• Backlog organisation
• Agile boards
• Workflow reasoning
• Project visibility

Course Overview

The publisher’s training introduces Jira from the ground up and then develops its use in planning and tracking work. Boards, backlogs, sprints, workflows and reports are part of the course context, with Jira acting as a shared record of tasks, bugs and other work items. Start with the beginner class before moving into the more demanding sessions. Focus on the meaning of an issue and its status before customising the system. A useful workflow makes the next action and ownership understandable; more fields or automation do not automatically make a project clearer.

How to study the course

• Begin with the introductory class and establish the meaning of an issue, a board and a status. Use a practice project rather than changing an existing team’s configuration.
• Continue through the later classes while keeping a clear purpose for each feature. Match a workflow choice to the way the team actually completes work.

Use the searchable classroom lesson list to revisit a specific explanation. Pause after a useful demonstration, reproduce a small example and explain the result in your own words. Keep a short note of what worked, what changed and what you still need to understand before moving on.

Who is this for?

The course is for project managers, developers, Scrum Masters, testers, analysts and other professionals working around Jira. It suits both new users and people who have used the tool without understanding the wider workflow.

Before you start

No previous Jira experience is required for the opening class. Basic awareness of team or project work is helpful. Hands-on practice needs an appropriate Jira environment; paid product features are not included with free viewing.

Put the lessons into practice

Create a fictional project with a handful of work items. Write a clear description and completion condition for each item, then place it in a simple workflow. Identify who would own the next action and how the board would reveal blocked work. Use a later-course technique to improve planning or visibility, then check whether it adds useful information. Explain one report or view in terms of the question it helps answer. Keep the exercise separate from any live organisational project.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent practice. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes, check the result against the task you defined and return to the relevant lesson when an assumption or technique is unclear.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching the public videos and using WikiFree progress tracking does not award a certificate, exam voucher, academic credit or instructor assessment.

Use your practice output to review what you can now explain and repeat independently. Completion tracking records your study progress; it does not replace an assessed qualification or professional experience.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: Learn Skills Daily. Videos play from the Learn Skills Daily channel on YouTube.