HOW TO USE JIRA | Free Agile Project Management Software (Jira tutorial for Beginners)

[@StewartGauld]

✅Get started with Jira project management for free ➜ atlassian.sjv.io/c/2844094/2152178/17715 IMPORTANT: This Jira link is an affiliate link, which means we will get a commission if you upgrade to a paid plan (with no extra cost to you) through this link, and this helps support our channel so we thank you in advance!

[@jairoramirez5202]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

I'm glad! Best of luck!

[@FarhanAqeel]

Honestly, this video has taught me more project management than my entire project management course. LOVED the straight forward explanation!

[@StewartGauld]

Hi mate, I'm glad! all the best on your project management journey!

[@Dream-Academy]

Hilarious your course must suck a big one what is it?

[@FarhanAqeel]

@@Dream-Academy "Software project Management"

[@naveennani8113]

@@StewartGauld how much salary for projet work

[@guddukumarguddukumar5916]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@darktangent10]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Best of luck!

[@TheSpacesnowman]

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

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks for that. Updating this tutorial soon.

[@GafferSamz]

@@StewartGauld Found this tutorial super helpful. Out of curiosity, how did you arrive at story points indicating level of importance

[@borret_]

@@StewartGauldis the update available?

[@BobTheBob647]

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.

[@tangram11]

Yep, immediate downvote when I saw this. You can't teach Jira properly if you don't know the fundamentals of Agile.

[@DamiTitiOke]

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!

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful! All the best in your role!

[@johnvalley320]

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!!!

[@StewartGauld]

Hi John! Thanks mate, I appreciate the kind words. I’m glad you got value.

[@TheSpacesnowman]

It might also be helpful to understand the hierarchy of "issues" Epic > Feature > User story > Task Hope this helps!

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks

[@candylook50]

How would you describe a feature as compared to a US?

[@terezaurbanova1476]

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

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheSpacesnowman]

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!

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks

[@gabrieloriakhi232]

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

[@StewartGauld]

I'm glad!

[@bogdankoretski1]

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!

[@StewartGauld]

Great idea. Thanks for that. We will be updating this tutorial soon.

[@StevenWard]

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 :) )

[@StewartGauld]

You're very welcome!

[@johnsys7836]

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...KZbin to the rescue. :)

[@StewartGauld]

You are more than welcome! Glad this was super helpful!

[@folarinmark3895]

He teaches and does it like an A.I so easy and straight forward. You are Blessed my guy

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks mate!

[@elisolutions]

Thank you Stewart! This is one of the best complete overviews I've seen in Jira. We will be sharing with our clients.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks mate.

[@naeemahmed3245]

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 :)

[@StewartGauld]

All the best!

[@clutchingatlight]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks for sharing mate, A few things have changed since I made this tutorial. We will be updating this tutorial in 2022

[@charlesegwuh143]

How has your experience being so far?

[@usefulent9257]

Useful comment

[@dragonbaka1]

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!!!

[@StewartGauld]

Fantastic! Your welcome mate!

[@MsZdeg]

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!

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks for the feedback mate.

[@OfficialInderJ]

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!!!!!!

[@StewartGauld]

Best of luck!

[@nikithapradeesh9048]

WOW! the best tutorial video on JIRA! Hats off to you :)

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sergioport]

Hard to find videos as insightful and Clear as this one, Thanks.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JasonDziukACE]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Hi Jason, Thanks for the feedback!

[@MGE0007]

@Jason Dziuk.. what project management tool do you use to support agile development.?

[@JasonDziukACE]

@@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.

[@MGE0007]

@@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!!!...

[@Kemikalgeneral]

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

[@StarslightAndDreams]

I'm watching this right before starting my new job after graduating. Thanks Steward!!

[@StewartGauld]

All the best!

[@bradleybaker8894]

Excellent tutorial. High value in a concise and easy to follow format. Exactly what I was looking for.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@obianujuezenduka9602]

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 KZbin 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!

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it helped!

[@pw.70]

That was a great focused tutorial - really enjoyed it. Obviously more powerful than Trello (which I do love).

[@StewartGauld]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@guuday2all]

Amazing! Now I know all about Jira in 10 mins in fast pace.

[@StewartGauld]

Welcome!

[@Jeremiahviews]

Thank you Stewart, you really did great in bringing clarity and simplicity to perceived difficult JIRA workflow.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@moitrysarkar6236]

As a beginner, am so confident about my upcoming interview. Thanks so much.

[@StewartGauld]

All the best!

[@matthewreid8505]

Good, straightforward intro, feel happy that I can do the basics already. Thanks!

[@StewartGauld]

You're welcome Matthew!

[@adarshsahoo6536]

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

[@StewartGauld]

It's my pleasure!

[@thee__afro]

man is video have educated me better than the thousands dollar course i paid. Thanks and God bless your heart

[@StewartGauld]

Glad to help!

[@ContinentalKrish]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Hey mate! I'm glad you got value!

[@LKeshaba]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Welcome mate! Happy to help.

[@gayatrijoshi5359]

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 🔥

[@StewartGauld]

Glad you liked it!

[@fortuneoziri8894]

This is the best beginners Jira tutorial i have seen so far. Thanks for the good job.

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks!

[@monsterskrakens6125]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks for sharing!

[@wellingtongavi3666]

This is straightforward and very simple for a beginner like me. Thanks, Stewart for this and other videos that I am yet to watch

[@StewartGauld]

You're very welcome!

[@aliahyar3174]

thank you Stewart for making this video. It's very useful for beginner like me who wants to start using JIRA for project management.

[@StewartGauld]

Your welcome my friend 😊

[@freebk161]

Perfect, Precise explanation in this short video. This video worth 1,000,000 words !!!

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@johnmathewsp]

Lovely tutorial, Very quick and efficient way of teaching by Steve. Appreciate the efforts👍

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@maki9876]

Moving from Azure DevOps to Jira. This video helps a lot. Thanks. :)

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it helped!

[@melaniemcewen1002]

Thank you! The tutorial was informative to assisting with me using Jira for project management.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it helped!

[@theruthiesam]

This is very detailed I will recommend it to anyone interested in learning work management software

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks!

[@bakhitango263]

Thank you so much Stewart. This was very helpful as I am new to Jira. I am on the job market for a Scrum Master job and I realized Jira is a requirement for most companies

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@BenRodrigue]

Thanks. Starting my first project and needed to get up to speed quickly. Great tutorial. TY

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tanueiloyd6561]

Yes, indeed you are a pro in JIRA teaching. Congratulations

[@StewartGauld]

Thank you very much

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?

[@StewartGauld]

Hey! You can find more information about test case management here: confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/using-jira-software-for-test-case-management-136872198.html

[@phylera23]

I didn't had any clue about Jira but you helped A-LOT. Thanks.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad I could help!

[@vivianngty]

About to start a new project and the client uses Jira which I have never used before. Thanks so much for such good content.

[@StewartGauld]

Great to hear! Welcome!

[@alejandracalzolari4317]

Amazing... you are super clear, best tutorial ever!! and its so nice to hear this accent again!! thanks for that!!

[@StewartGauld]

Glad you liked it!

[@balazsbereczky595]

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!

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rizqyhbb]

Thankyou. as a new developer, this video helped a lot and you wrap it in neat and solid explanation

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it helped!

[@MereMortalsPodcast]

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;

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks for your input mate!

[@rajanbaburajkumar]

Thanks for the complete overview of Jira for the project management software template.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Lonelywarrior77]

Great tutorial! One small correction: At 12:10, it says 'Project' owner instead of 'product' owner.

[@StewartGauld]

Yes! Thank you, that was my mistake.

[@johnolaoluwa]

This is like Project Management on Steroids! You make it look so simple and straightforward. Thanks! Do you have a project management video? I can't imagine what that would be like.

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks! We have plenty of PM videos on this channel.

[@davidpinto6790]

thanks Stewart for this Jira introduction which to be honest I really watched to learn the terminology having been in Programme and Project Management for quite a while now. May I gently pick you up on your occasionally mixing in the term 'Project Owner' in your commentary and one on-screen message when the SCRUM term is 'Product Owner'? Keep up the good work!

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful! Yes see the comment for the correct explanation to minimise confusion.

[@pandonem3489]

Thank a lot man. This explanation was so satisfying. I`m a foreign language speak person but understand just about everything. Regards

[@StewartGauld]

I'm glad! Thanks for watching!

[@AmineArab]

This is the best video for Jira and scrum's explanation. So easy, so efficient, Thank you so much

[@StewartGauld]

You're very welcome!

[@MrOnthemotorway]

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?

[@StewartGauld]

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.

[@dieudonnet.n.ebacha1653]

Thanks alot Stewart , you just the best, i didnt really understand how Jira works, but you have made understand so well, thanks alot,

[@StewartGauld]

You are very welcome!

[@onyiinyechukwu]

Short and straight to the point

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks!

[@DeepakRai]

Hey Stewart. Keep up the awesome work! Do you plan to make more Video on Jira Project Management? Kind regards, Deepak

[@StewartGauld]

Hey mate, Yes we do. Coming soon.

[@Iamdrsoul]

Amazing... dont forget to correct what story points are.

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks for that. Updated tutorial coming soon.

[@seichaibao]

Thanks for your video, your tutorial is helping me to understand more about agile approaches in PMP.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pawankumarchauhan1332]

Really awesome explanation sir. I learn all things very crystal and clear. Thank you very much.

[@StewartGauld]

Welcome!

[@vr2766]

Great video: I would have loved diving a bit more formally into the defintion of user strories, the "As a user/persona I want to X so that X"

[@StewartGauld]

Have you seen our updated video?

[@vr2766]

@@StewartGauld where may I find it? And wow, didn't expect a reply! You guys rock!

[@nononsensenofilterthanks8203]

SUPER TUTORIAL! The best teaching method ever! So grateful 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@StewartGauld]

You're very welcome!

[@chikpeaMedia]

pretty complete introduction. Thank you. It answered several questions.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mohammadbaghshani8544]

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! (;

[@StewartGauld]

Your welcome! Thank you!

[@sahilsummers3864]

Man you made it simple for me loved it keep posting Thanks.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it helped

[@jojohenderson2413]

Super easy to understand. Hands down the best tutorial for JIRA

[@StewartGauld]

Hey Jojo, Thanks for that!

[@gbittu]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the feedback

[@Mattias1995]

Yes. We created an Epic but never really used it in the video, it could've simply been omitted

[@justwatch2803]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Hey mate, Will do. Thanks mate.

[@gaj1234]

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!!.

[@StewartGauld]

Welcome aboard! I'm glad you got value!

[@gaj1234]

@@StewartGauld Thanks once again bro..do take care and stay blessed!.

[@Dutchgirl020]

As a Scrum Master who has always used Azure DevOps, this was a helpful intro into Jira, thanks for that! However.... there is unfortunately some wrong information in this video regarding Scrum basics, ie the information about story points and about the scrum roles!

[@StewartGauld]

We have updated this now. Thanks!

[@krisbal2608]

i love this video , short , concise and direct, learn the basics..thanks Stewart

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rasaq301]

Thank you so much!! I recently passed my scrum master certification and I'm trying to familiarize myself with different types of project management software and this definitely helped. Will you still be making that more in depth video that you were talking about in the end?

[@StewartGauld]

Welcome! I sure will.

[@rasaq301]

@@StewartGauld that’s great! Is there a timeline that I can expect it to come?

[@starthebest807]

Tell me how you pass your scrum exam. Am taking a class presently

[@bipingosain6870]

Yep agreed! 🙌🏻 great intro tutorial indeed! Thanks Stewart.

[@StewartGauld]

I'm glad!

[@ahlamh8070]

Thank you heaps, that was a quick yet informative rundown of jira.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@judyl.7811]

2:45 Agile process: functionality-planning-implementation-testing-review 5:54 sprint is PM workflow

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks Judy.

[@MichaelJohnson-ze6ql]

Thanks for the tutorial, I feel ready to use jira moving forward 👍🏾

[@StewartGauld]

Hey Michael, I'm glad you got so much value.

[@katchkamil]

Thanks for making this tutorial Stewart. It is very helpful.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@shareef309]

Found this tutorial awesome very helpful to the beginner. Thanks

[@StewartGauld]

You're very welcome!

[@apostleofzion]

Explained with simplicity and clarity. Much appreciated.

[@StewartGauld]

@@apostleofzion thanks 🙏

[@matthewdemeritt2672]

Great! Would love the more advanced video on this!

[@StewartGauld]

Coming soon!

[@EmekaKellyIrobiko]

this wow absolutely insightful. Thank you so much for sharing Stewart

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@casmasterofficials804]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it helped!

[@SurfingMarc]

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.

[@StewartGauld]

Yes we have updated this now.

[@mishmenez]

To the point video on use of Jira, thanks @Stewart Gauld

[@StewartGauld]

Thanks!

[@Randygussan1112]

This vedio was is useful. Yhank yo for taking the time and explaining each respect of JIRA.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@blueeeman]

Do you have a part 2?? So informative this video : )

[@StewartGauld]

We have one coming out soon!

[@vikramshinde8835]

Great Video, this explains the JIRA in a most simplest form.

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful!

[@baldevyadav4122]

welldone steward thankyou, even an layman also can create and learn jira

[@StewartGauld]

I'm glad!

[@Heredia1973]

Hi Stewart!! Thank you for your video! Everything was clear, Great explanation!

[@StewartGauld]

You are welcome!

[@satishb9975]

Thank you for showing the live test process of jira work flow with clear explanations and details 👌

[@StewartGauld]

Glad it was helpful! Welcome mate.

[@94bkf]

Grateful you took the time out to share this

[@StewartGauld]

Welcome Bradley.