Free ebookJira for Project Managers: Setting Up Projects, Boards, and Reporting

Course Description

Jira for Project Managers: Setting Up Projects, Boards, and Reporting is a practical ebook course for professionals in business administration who need reliable project management visibility without spending weeks learning every Jira feature. You will learn how to set up Jira projects that reflect real delivery work, support clear scope control, and make progress easy to explain to stakeholders.

You start by navigating the Jira interface and understanding the core building blocks that drive day to day execution. From there, you move into Jira project setup for visibility by choosing the right project type and applying initial configuration choices that match your delivery model. As you progress, you will shape issue types and a work breakdown that improves clarity, reduces ambiguity, and helps teams plan and track work at the right level of detail.

The course then shows how to align workflows and statuses with your process without over engineering, so teams can move faster while maintaining consistent reporting. You will practice backlog management in Jira through prioritization, refinement, and readiness, then apply that foundation to Scrum boards for sprint planning, execution, and scope management. If your environment is better served by continuous delivery, you will also learn how to run Kanban boards with flow focused practices, including WIP limits and service delivery tracking.

For complex environments, you will learn how to structure Jira boards for multi team and cross project coordination, making it easier to manage shared capacity and avoid conflicting priorities. You will also bring hidden work into the open by tracking dependencies, risks, and milestones in Jira, enabling earlier decisions and fewer surprises.

Finally, you will use essential Jira reports to interpret progress and predictability, then build dashboards that support stakeholder communication with reusable views. The ebook closes with operational practices for quality, consistency, and lightweight governance so your Jira project management system stays useful as teams and portfolios evolve.

Start this course today and set up Jira projects and boards that give your teams clarity and your stakeholders trustworthy reporting.