Free online courseJira software to project management

Course Description

Managing a project is easier when everyone can see what is happening, what comes next, and who owns each piece of work. This free online course helps you build that clarity using Jira Software, a widely used platform for planning, tracking, and delivering projects in modern teams. You will learn how Jira fits into real project management workflows, from early setup to day-to-day execution, so you can spend less time chasing updates and more time moving work forward.

Starting from the fundamentals, you will get comfortable navigating the interface, understanding how Jira is structured, and working with the building blocks that power daily delivery: issues and their types. As your confidence grows, you will learn how to adapt Jira to your needs by adjusting views, setting preferences, and using dashboards and gadgets to surface the information that matters most. This is where Jira becomes more than a tracker—it becomes a practical control center for decisions, priorities, and progress.

The course also connects Jira to Agile ways of working by explaining key concepts behind Kanban and Scrum, then showing how those approaches translate into Jira projects. You will practice creating and managing common work items such as epics, stories, tasks, subtasks, and bugs, and understand how to use them to keep large initiatives organized without losing sight of the details. You will also see how transitions and resolution practices support a clean workflow that stakeholders can trust.

To help you operate efficiently in real environments, you will learn how to find exactly what you need using search and filters: locating issues by type, status, reporter, assignee, and date, saving filters for repeated use, and checking activity streams to understand what changed and why. You will also cover practical execution skills like editing issues, linking related work, and time tracking, so your Jira data becomes reliable for planning and reporting. By the end, you will be ready to set up a project space, keep work visible, and maintain momentum across a team using Jira as your project management backbone.