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Planning and Releasing Software with JIRA

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Overview

Learn how to plan and release software in a scrum development environment using Jira and plugins such as Portfolio and Bitbucket.

Jira has several powerful features for release management, including agile release cycles. This course explains how to plan and release software in a scrum development environment using a base Jira project and some useful plugins and add-ons. It also shows how to use principles of continuous integration, delivery, and deployment to guide the release management strategy at your company. Instructor Robert Anthony shows how to create boards and reports for sprints, use Portfolio for Jira to manage multiple software projects and cross-project dependencies, and manage code repositories with Bitbucket, which integrates with version control systems like Git and Mercurial. Challenges videos at the end of each chapter allow you to practice your newfound Jira skills.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Getting started
1. Boards
  • Intro to Boards
  • Sprints and story points
  • Releases
  • Reporting
  • ✓ Challenge: Create a new Scrum board and release, and assign some issues to it
  • ✓ Solution: Create a new Scrum board and release, and assign some issues to it
2. Portfolio
  • Intro to Portfolio
  • Creating your plans in Portfolio
  • Portfolio dependencies and cross-project releases
  • ✓ Challenge: Create a new portfolio plan with a cross-project release
  • ✓ Solution: Create a new portfolio plan with a cross-project release
3. Bitbucket
  • Intro to Bitbucket
  • Configuring Bitbucket
  • Advanced workflows
  • ✓ Challenge: Create a release management workflow using the branch created trigger
  • ✓ Solution: Create a release management workflow using the branch created trigger
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Robert Anthony

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