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Started my internship and they want to start using JIRA, never touched it, and now i feel confident with it! extremely knowledgeable about it, thank you.
correction: story points aren't how important the task is to complete. Instead they are units of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort required to complete that task. Notably, the Team assigns the points and not the PM! hope this helps
This is true. It's great when you do the sprint plan and have everyone estimate out the story points together. When one person thinks 8 and another person thinks 2, there's a chance that the person who thinks a task is 8 realizes an obstacle in the story the person who thinks 2 does not see.
This guy does an excellent job for introductory information to JIRA. I spent the better pat of the day trying to figure out the lay of the land in JIRA compared to DevOps and was having more trouble than necessary until I came across this video by Stewart Gauld. I highly recommend watching this from start to end. Looking forward to a next level video from him as well. Thanks......... Great job Stewart!!!
This is great. I'm a coordinator for a non-project organization and want to get into project management. Hearing about different software, agile, scrum, etc can be intimidating but this video helps put some things into perspective. Can't wait to learn more!
Hello, thank you so much for this! I have worked with JIRA for over 3 years and now I am ready to dive back in and this was so informative. Thanks again
correction: the Product Owner isn't the Project manager. Instead, the Scrum master is essentially the Project manager (in Scrum) or team facilitator.. and is there to "facilitate" and not direct or manage! as agile teams are self-empowered! Hope this helps!
Useful starter but there's lots of things missing for a complete novice. It does't tell you that you have to enable "Backlog" for example when you first sign up. After creating the first epic, the "story" option doesn't appear in the list when creating a new issue until you go into project settings and enable it. Story points isn't there by default in the story view. Create subtask isn't there by default either. None of this is covered, so I had to use Google a lot to wade through this.
Hi Stewart, I was at lost as I worked as Project Manager for 3 years already but my former company doesn't want to use modern project management tools. Been having a hard time finding work as they all require JIRA mostly, thank you for this wonderful, short and very clear explanation. will be having fun exploring JIRA based from your fundamentals, you made my day brother! keep it up!!!
What a great and practical video Stewart, yet listening about Scrum roles (aka accountabilities) there seem to be some inaccuracies which might confuse viewers and give them a wrong perception of Scrum concepts (eg. there is no hierarchy in Scrum). Given the video topic it might be not a big deal but at the same time proper statements that correspond the Scrum Guide could be of an additional help to those who listen :) B.R!
seriously Thanks for this. I was trying to learn this during a work presentation and was so lost with they way they explained it. Once again...TH-cam to the rescue. :)
This is a good demonstration of the tool, but has concerning misinformation. (1) Feature is NOT the same as User Story. (2) Story Points are NOT "how important this story is to complete". Those statements are fundamentally wrong.
@@MGE0007 Either Atlassian Jira or Azure DevOps. Jira used to be the only solid player in the field (Rational Clear Case and Microsoft Team Foundation Server both worked well for source control but fell short in terms of work management. In the past 5-7 years, though, Microsoft has improved by leaps and bounds and has effectively closed the gap with Jira. If you prefer to work from a board and manage your items with that visualization, Jira is still the clear winner. I personally prefer the query view that Azure DevOps provides, so that is what I generally use but it is purely a personal preference.
@@JasonDziukACE Hey thanks for the quick feedback. I have not delved deeply into Jira...used Asana recently and before that I was a slave to MS Project!!!...
This is a good point and just in case anyone wishes to know what they are... EPIC = collection of stories STORY = collection of tasks TASK = small bits of work to complete the story STORY POINTS = how long you think it'll take to complete (normally using the Fibonacci sequence) VELOCITY = number of points your team can complete in a given sprint
Thank you, Stewart. In my new role, they wanted JIRA. And I am almost done with the knowledge. I will practice hard and crack the interview. Thank you!!!!!!
I've been using ADO for a few years and needed an overview of Jira that my new client uses. This is super clear and detailed enough to give me exactly what I needed. Thanks Stewart (ADO uses the term Item Type instead of Issue - which as a PM is much better as who wants lots of Issues on the project :) )
Thanks for this overview of jira :) However, the part of explaining agile methologies/words etc has mistakes, so please just use this video only for understanding jira NOT FOR UNDERSTANDING AGILE!
this was really helpful. I've been learning Jira on Udemy and 've spent so many hours watching videos. I got frustrated and decided to go on TH-cam and I stumbled on your video and watching your video has taught me a whole lot more than all the videos I watched on Udemy. THANK YOU!
I have recently changed my job, and in my new Company we are completely agile. Your video has helped me a lot to understand the commonly used terminologies and methodologies in agile way of working.
Hi, thanks for this engaging and informative video. It was a great learning experience. I have a question please. Can Jira be used as a Workload management tool?
I took project management course before, and also familiar with simpler project management software. But this video complete my understanding under 30 minutes. Big thank you for that.
It's funny that I used Jira at a past job, and we didn't use the full functionality that he described and I didn't realize that I was using agile methodologies and Scrum. Now I have a clear explanation, which I never got at my past job, on how to use Jira.
Thanks a lot Stewart..i just had to subscribe..love your simplicity and a very clear easy to understand approach in explaining seemly, a bit complicated project management tool such as JIRA..Do keep it up and All the best!!.
At 08:00 you explain that you create a task underneath a Story. But it's not the case, you skip the step, but if you did not skip the step you would see that the Task is created underneath the Epic and not underneath the Story. You can only create Sub-Task underneath a Story. So that's where Jira gets really confusing if you compare it to Devops: Epic -> Feature -> Story -> Task.
Hey Stewart .. the spotlight...I was talking about.....plz have a look at Power BI video of Kevin Stratvert... you both have a very good style of explaining... sinks into the brain.
Honestly I have saw so many videos and didn't understood anything. All I want to know was in this video on point 🔥. Very helpful and simple to understand video. Keep going 🔥
Thanks for sharing this video, love the presentation style. My only comment is that some of the references here to Agile and JIRA are probably not in-line, remember most of the time we have to fit into the JIRA mould but Agile broadly is done very very differently, either pragmatically or by the 'book;
Amazing tutorial! I was using jira for a few years, but it was not clean for me. Now I know the roles and the meaning of the Jira lingo. Thank you Stewart!
Thank you so much! The last interview question I got was " Where do you keep your test cases in Jira?" According to your video can we say that test cases are the sub-task you put under the story?
Hey! You can find more information about test case management here: confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/using-jira-software-for-test-case-management-136872198.html
First of all great thanks Stewart! You made it much easier to understand the concepts. I wish you could have added more details about the story points, Epic and daily scrum.
Hi Stewart, Your board layout looks a lot different from mine. I have gone through the video step for step a few times but cannot get to the point where my board looks like yours. If you look at 11:10 of your video, that is the view I am trying to get (with the story across the whole workflow and the related tasks below it). My board doesn't establish as nice a hierarchy. Let me know if you have a solution please? Would be much appreciated
Great demo of Jira, only thing I'd question is you refer to the Product Owner as the Project Manager which I didn't understand to be the case? Pure agile doesn't call for a PM as a necessary role and when it does exist, the role is responsible for day-to-day operations of the project (delegated from the Board) e.g. managing scope, cost, risk, issues, mitigations, reporting etc. Whereas a Product Owner is more product focussed with the development of the product itself (through managing the product backlog and making key decisions) and as such requires much deeper knowledge of the product being developed than what a PM would have. Keen to hear your thoughts?
Hey Tim, You are right. We will update this tutorial soon. We were trying to translate the terminology in a way that the average person would understand compared with standard project management. As we are aware now, it's not that simple.
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Started my internship and they want to start using JIRA, never touched it, and now i feel confident with it! extremely knowledgeable about it, thank you.
I'm glad! Best of luck!
Honestly, this video has taught me more project management than my entire project management course. LOVED the straight forward explanation!
Hi mate,
I'm glad! all the best on your project management journey!
Hilarious your course must suck a big one what is it?
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@@StewartGauld how much salary for projet work
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correction: story points aren't how important the task is to complete.
Instead they are units of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort required to complete that task.
Notably, the Team assigns the points and not the PM!
hope this helps
Thanks for that. Updating this tutorial soon.
@@StewartGauld Found this tutorial super helpful. Out of curiosity, how did you arrive at story points indicating level of importance
@@StewartGauldis the update available?
This is true. It's great when you do the sprint plan and have everyone estimate out the story points together. When one person thinks 8 and another person thinks 2, there's a chance that the person who thinks a task is 8 realizes an obstacle in the story the person who thinks 2 does not see.
Yep, immediate downvote when I saw this. You can't teach Jira properly if you don't know the fundamentals of Agile.
Thanks for the vid! I'm applying for a position with a company that uses Jira, so this will give me an edge in my interview.
Best of luck!
It might also be helpful to understand the hierarchy of "issues"
Epic > Feature > User story > Task
Hope this helps!
Thanks
How would you describe a feature as compared to a US?
This guy does an excellent job for introductory information to JIRA. I spent the better pat of the day trying to figure out the lay of the land in JIRA compared to DevOps and was having more trouble than necessary until I came across this video by Stewart Gauld. I highly recommend watching this from start to end. Looking forward to a next level video from him as well. Thanks.........
Great job Stewart!!!
Hi John! Thanks mate, I appreciate the kind words. I’m glad you got value.
This is great. I'm a coordinator for a non-project organization and want to get into project management. Hearing about different software, agile, scrum, etc can be intimidating but this video helps put some things into perspective. Can't wait to learn more!
Glad it was helpful! All the best in your role!
Hello, thank you so much for this! I have worked with JIRA for over 3 years and now I am ready to dive back in and this was so informative. Thanks again
Glad it was helpful!
2:45 Agile process: functionality-planning-implementation-testing-review
5:54 sprint is PM workflow
Thanks Judy.
correction: the Product Owner isn't the Project manager.
Instead, the Scrum master is essentially the Project manager (in Scrum) or team facilitator.. and is there to "facilitate" and not direct or manage! as agile teams are self-empowered!
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Thank you very much, I've toiled all night watching other videos without getting anything done, few minutes with your video and my task is complete
I'm glad!
WOW! the best tutorial video on JIRA! Hats off to you :)
Glad it was helpful!
Hard to find videos as insightful and Clear as this one, Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Useful starter but there's lots of things missing for a complete novice. It does't tell you that you have to enable "Backlog" for example when you first sign up. After creating the first epic, the "story" option doesn't appear in the list when creating a new issue until you go into project settings and enable it. Story points isn't there by default in the story view. Create subtask isn't there by default either. None of this is covered, so I had to use Google a lot to wade through this.
Thanks for sharing mate, A few things have changed since I made this tutorial. We will be updating this tutorial in 2022
How has your experience being so far?
Useful comment
Hi Stewart, I was at lost as I worked as Project Manager for 3 years already but my former company doesn't want to use modern project management tools. Been having a hard time finding work as they all require JIRA mostly, thank you for this wonderful, short and very clear explanation. will be having fun exploring JIRA based from your fundamentals, you made my day brother! keep it up!!!
Fantastic! Your welcome mate!
What a great and practical video Stewart, yet listening about Scrum roles (aka accountabilities) there seem to be some inaccuracies which might confuse viewers and give them a wrong perception of Scrum concepts (eg. there is no hierarchy in Scrum). Given the video topic it might be not a big deal but at the same time proper statements that correspond the Scrum Guide could be of an additional help to those who listen :) B.R!
Great idea. Thanks for that. We will be updating this tutorial soon.
Explained with simplicity and clarity. Much appreciated.
@@apostleofzion thanks 🙏
He teaches and does it like an A.I so easy and straight forward. You are Blessed my guy
Thanks mate!
seriously Thanks for this. I was trying to learn this during a work presentation and was so lost with they way they explained it. Once again...TH-cam to the rescue. :)
You are more than welcome! Glad this was super helpful!
This is the best beginners Jira tutorial i have seen so far. Thanks for the good job.
Thanks!
This is a good demonstration of the tool, but has concerning misinformation. (1) Feature is NOT the same as User Story. (2) Story Points are NOT "how important this story is to complete". Those statements are fundamentally wrong.
Hi Jason,
Thanks for the feedback!
@Jason Dziuk.. what project management tool do you use to support agile development.?
@@MGE0007 Either Atlassian Jira or Azure DevOps. Jira used to be the only solid player in the field (Rational Clear Case and Microsoft Team Foundation Server both worked well for source control but fell short in terms of work management. In the past 5-7 years, though, Microsoft has improved by leaps and bounds and has effectively closed the gap with Jira. If you prefer to work from a board and manage your items with that visualization, Jira is still the clear winner. I personally prefer the query view that Azure DevOps provides, so that is what I generally use but it is purely a personal preference.
@@JasonDziukACE Hey thanks for the quick feedback. I have not delved deeply into Jira...used Asana recently and before that I was a slave to MS Project!!!...
This is a good point and just in case anyone wishes to know what they are...
EPIC = collection of stories
STORY = collection of tasks
TASK = small bits of work to complete the story
STORY POINTS = how long you think it'll take to complete (normally using the Fibonacci sequence)
VELOCITY = number of points your team can complete in a given sprint
Thank you, Stewart. In my new role, they wanted JIRA. And I am almost done with the knowledge. I will practice hard and crack the interview. Thank you!!!!!!
Best of luck!
Thank you Stewart! This is one of the best complete overviews I've seen in Jira. We will be sharing with our clients.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks mate.
And here I go... Now I can claim that I know JIRA. Really helpful to know the basics of JIRA and to kickstart with it :)
All the best!
Excellent tutorial. High value in a concise and easy to follow format. Exactly what I was looking for.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've been using ADO for a few years and needed an overview of Jira that my new client uses. This is super clear and detailed enough to give me exactly what I needed. Thanks Stewart (ADO uses the term Item Type instead of Issue - which as a PM is much better as who wants lots of Issues on the project :) )
You're very welcome!
Good, straightforward intro, feel happy that I can do the basics already. Thanks!
You're welcome Matthew!
Thank you! The tutorial was informative to assisting with me using Jira for project management.
Glad it helped!
Thanks for this overview of jira :) However, the part of explaining agile methologies/words etc has mistakes, so please just use this video only for understanding jira NOT FOR UNDERSTANDING AGILE!
Thanks for the feedback mate.
this was really helpful. I've been learning Jira on Udemy and 've spent so many hours watching videos. I got frustrated and decided to go on TH-cam and I stumbled on your video and watching your video has taught me a whole lot more than all the videos I watched on Udemy. THANK YOU!
Glad it helped!
Thank you Stewart, you really did great in bringing clarity and simplicity to perceived difficult JIRA workflow.
Glad it was helpful!
This is straightforward and very simple for a beginner like me. Thanks, Stewart for this and other videos that I am yet to watch
You're very welcome!
That was a great focused tutorial - really enjoyed it. Obviously more powerful than Trello (which I do love).
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have recently changed my job, and in my new Company we are completely agile. Your video has helped me a lot to understand the commonly used terminologies and methodologies in agile way of working.
Hey mate!
I'm glad you got value!
Perfect, Precise explanation in this short video. This video worth 1,000,000 words !!!
Glad it was helpful!
Hi, thanks for this engaging and informative video. It was a great learning experience. I have a question please. Can Jira be used as a Workload management tool?
Your welcome 🙏 yes sure can. However, I would recommend other tools before Jira unless you are currently using this platform
I took project management course before, and also familiar with simpler project management software. But this video complete my understanding under 30 minutes. Big thank you for that.
Welcome mate! Happy to help.
Lovely tutorial, Very quick and efficient way of teaching by Steve. Appreciate the efforts👍
Glad it was helpful!
this wow absolutely insightful. Thank you so much for sharing Stewart
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing... you are super clear, best tutorial ever!! and its so nice to hear this accent again!! thanks for that!!
Glad you liked it!
Thanks a lot for making such videos. For the first time I watched how JIRA tickets are being worked on and this video taught me everything
It's my pleasure!
Amazing! Now I know all about Jira in 10 mins in fast pace.
Welcome!
Thanks for your video, your tutorial is helping me to understand more about agile approaches in PMP.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Stewart!! Thank you for your video! Everything was clear, Great explanation!
You are welcome!
Super easy to understand. Hands down the best tutorial for JIRA
Hey Jojo,
Thanks for that!
Thanks. Starting my first project and needed to get up to speed quickly. Great tutorial. TY
Glad it was helpful!
Really awesome explanation sir. I learn all things very crystal and clear. Thank you very much.
Welcome!
I'm watching this right before starting my new job after graduating. Thanks Steward!!
All the best!
Thanks alot Stewart , you just the best, i didnt really understand how Jira works, but you have made understand so well, thanks alot,
You are very welcome!
Yes, indeed you are a pro in JIRA teaching. Congratulations
Thank you very much
Thank you so much for such a short and informative tutorial!
Glad it was helpful!
i love this video , short , concise and direct, learn the basics..thanks Stewart
Glad it was helpful!
Short and straight to the point
Thanks!
Thanks for making this tutorial Stewart. It is very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
SUPER TUTORIAL! The best teaching method ever! So grateful 🙏🏻🙏🏻
You're very welcome!
thank you Stewart for making this video. It's very useful for beginner like me who wants to start using JIRA for project management.
Your welcome my friend 😊
pretty complete introduction. Thank you. It answered several questions.
Glad it was helpful!
It's funny that I used Jira at a past job, and we didn't use the full functionality that he described and I didn't realize that I was using agile methodologies and Scrum. Now I have a clear explanation, which I never got at my past job, on how to use Jira.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot Stewart..i just had to subscribe..love your simplicity and a very clear easy to understand approach in explaining seemly, a bit complicated project management tool such as JIRA..Do keep it up and All the best!!.
Welcome aboard! I'm glad you got value!
@@StewartGauld Thanks once again bro..do take care and stay blessed!.
Yep agreed! 🙌🏻 great intro tutorial indeed! Thanks Stewart.
I'm glad!
Thank you heaps, that was a quick yet informative rundown of jira.
Glad it was helpful!
man is video have educated me better than the thousands dollar course i paid. Thanks and God bless your heart
Glad to help!
Hi Stewart. Thank you for this vid! Very well done! It was great! I used it as a refresher.
Welcome!
Thanks for the complete overview of Jira for the project management software template.
Glad it was helpful!
I didn't had any clue about Jira but you helped A-LOT. Thanks.
Glad I could help!
Man you made it simple for me loved it keep posting Thanks.
Glad it helped
Straightforward and to the point. Ty!
Thanks!
Stewart, this is an excellent presentation! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Stewart for this useful demo.
Welcome 🤗
At 08:00 you explain that you create a task underneath a Story. But it's not the case, you skip the step, but if you did not skip the step you would see that the Task is created underneath the Epic and not underneath the Story. You can only create Sub-Task underneath a Story. So that's where Jira gets really confusing if you compare it to Devops: Epic -> Feature -> Story -> Task.
Yes we have updated this now.
This vedio was is useful. Yhank yo for taking the time and explaining each respect of JIRA.
Glad it was helpful!
YOOO YOU MADE MY WEEK. THANK YOU SO FOR MUCH MAKING THID VIDEO. THIS VIDEO IS THE REAL DEALL TAUGHT ME ALLOT IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
Glad it helped!
As a beginner, am so confident about my upcoming interview. Thanks so much.
All the best!
Hey Stewart .. the spotlight...I was talking about.....plz have a look at Power BI video of Kevin Stratvert... you both have a very good style of explaining... sinks into the brain.
Hey mate,
Will do. Thanks mate.
Honestly I have saw so many videos and didn't understood anything. All I want to know was in this video on point 🔥. Very helpful and simple to understand video. Keep going 🔥
Glad you liked it!
To the point video on use of Jira, thanks @Stewart Gauld
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this video, love the presentation style. My only comment is that some of the references here to Agile and JIRA are probably not in-line, remember most of the time we have to fit into the JIRA mould but Agile broadly is done very very differently, either pragmatically or by the 'book;
Thanks for your input mate!
Thanks Stewart this was very helpful video.
Glad it helped!
Amazing tutorial! I was using jira for a few years, but it was not clean for me. Now I know the roles and the meaning of the Jira lingo. Thank you Stewart!
Glad it was helpful!
this was a very very great crash course to Jira!
better than many videos that take your time for more than an hour!
Perfect! perfekt! perfecto! (;
Your welcome! Thank you!
About to start a new project and the client uses Jira which I have never used before. Thanks so much for such good content.
Great to hear! Welcome!
Great Video, this explains the JIRA in a most simplest form.
Glad it was helpful!
Great! Would love the more advanced video on this!
Coming soon!
Found this tutorial awesome very helpful to the beginner. Thanks
You're very welcome!
Thank you so much! The last interview question I got was " Where do you keep your test cases in Jira?" According to your video can we say that test cases are the sub-task you put under the story?
Hey! You can find more information about test case management here:
confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/using-jira-software-for-test-case-management-136872198.html
This is very detailed I will recommend it to anyone interested in learning work management software
Thanks!
Awesome video. Very helpful, useful, and practical.
Glad it was helpful!
First of all great thanks Stewart! You made it much easier to understand the concepts. I wish you could have added more details about the story points, Epic and daily scrum.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the feedback
Yes. We created an Epic but never really used it in the video, it could've simply been omitted
Thanks! Excellent tutorial.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Moving from Azure DevOps to Jira. This video helps a lot. Thanks. :)
Glad it helped!
Wonderful video Stewart. Thanks for your time!
Very welcome! Thanks!
Thank u very much for explaining clearly.
Glad it was helpful!
Incredibly helpful! Thanks so much for creating this tutorial!
You're very welcome!
Thank a lot man. This explanation was so satisfying. I`m a foreign language speak person but understand just about everything. Regards
I'm glad! Thanks for watching!
Thanks Stewart! Precise and helpful
Glad it was helpful!
This is the best video for Jira and scrum's explanation. So easy, so efficient, Thank you so much
You're very welcome!
Hi Stewart, Your board layout looks a lot different from mine. I have gone through the video step for step a few times but cannot get to the point where my board looks like yours. If you look at 11:10 of your video, that is the view I am trying to get (with the story across the whole workflow and the related tasks below it). My board doesn't establish as nice a hierarchy.
Let me know if you have a solution please? Would be much appreciated
Hi Jean,
Thanks for that. I will have a look into this.
Hey Jean, try going to Board Settings and activate Swimlanes.
Great tutorial! One small correction: At 12:10, it says 'Project' owner instead of 'product' owner.
Yes! Thank you, that was my mistake.
Great demo of Jira, only thing I'd question is you refer to the Product Owner as the Project Manager which I didn't understand to be the case? Pure agile doesn't call for a PM as a necessary role and when it does exist, the role is responsible for day-to-day operations of the project (delegated from the Board) e.g. managing scope, cost, risk, issues, mitigations, reporting etc. Whereas a Product Owner is more product focussed with the development of the product itself (through managing the product backlog and making key decisions) and as such requires much deeper knowledge of the product being developed than what a PM would have. Keen to hear your thoughts?
Hey Tim,
You are right. We will update this tutorial soon. We were trying to translate the terminology in a way that the average person would understand compared with standard project management. As we are aware now, it's not that simple.