User Stories with JIRA: Live 2-Day Workshop for IT Business Analysts in Agile

This is a 2-day online instructor-led training:

Day 1 - Wednesday, June 11, 2025:

• 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT (3 hrs)

  
  

Day 2 - Thursday, June 12, 2025:

• 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT (3 hrs)

  
  

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⭐ "I would give the course a 5/5."

This course was great for me personally. I was able to take away a framework for my JIRA's. Which I agree with in today's world we can not get away with just one liners anymore. And now with this framework for my JIRA's I will be able to provide all the necessary information for my team to deliver work. I think this will not only help understanding but drive better estimation of stories within my team which we have been struggling with currently.

Overall I would give the course a 5/5 it stuck to its objective and I believe if more than meet the expectations I had for it. Would recommend this course to anyone who wanted to learn more on JIRA skills and user story building.

- Jonathan Sharp 🇬🇧

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User stories are an excellent choice for capturing requirements for modern-day digital products! The main reason they are so popular is that user stories are very business- and end-user-friendly. They prompt us to focus first on user needs, wants, and desires, which makes total sense when building user-centric products.

However, it's hard to believe that in 2024, in the era of distributed multinational Agile teams, many people still conceive of user stories as nothing more than a sticky note with a brief sentence written by an end-user. How can you implement a testable, shippable software product this way? It’s no surprise that software development teams require more detailed, elaborated, and thoroughly thought-out user stories to build next-generation digital products.

And that’s exactly what this class is about!

Training Overview

In this live, instructor-led training class, we’ll not only learn what makes a great user story but also see how to build a fully-sized product backlog using the # 1 tool for Agile Teams - Atlassian JIRA.

This class will be super hands-on, and you will prepare development-ready user stories for a Scrum team directly in JIRA. With the power of AI, I’ll teach you how to do it quickly and significantly improve the value delivered by you and your Agile team.

What You Will Learn

1. Introduction to Business Analysis in the Agile Framework

2. Scrum Practices: Understanding Roles, Events, and Artifacts

3. Fundamentals of User Stories: Defining Their Role and Importance in Agile

4. Writing Effective User Stories: From INVEST to Gherkin

5. Role of Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) in User Stories

6. Types of User Stories and Story Points: Understanding Different Scenarios and Estimation Techniques

7. Building and Managing Product Backlogs in JIRA—Creating User Stories and Epics

8. Practical Use of JIRA for Agile Teams: Board Configuration, Scrum and Kanban setups

9. Advanced JIRA Techniques: Leveraging Automation, Filters, Dashboards, and JIRA Query Language (JQL)

10. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Criteria: Ensuring Quality and Testability

11. Prioritization and Minimum Viable Product (MVP): Techniques for Effective Agile Planning

12. User Story Review Lifecycle. Review and Feedback Mechanisms: Utilizing Comments, Collaboration, and Confluence alongside JIRA

13. Agile Documentation: Confluence as a Tool for Maintaining Project and Team Knowledge

Who Should Attend?

• IT Business Analysts

• IT Product Owners

• IT Project Managers

• IT Solution Architects

  
  

Concerned that you’re new to Agile and may not handle the tasks? Or perhaps you think you’re overqualified? No need to worry; individual exercises will be assigned to you based on your current level, from novice to expert.

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⭐ "The best way to learn is by doing."

The ‘User Stories with JIRA for Agile Teams’ workshop led by Sergey Shimansky gets the right balance by being highly practical (the best way to learn is by doing) and immediately applicable. The course material is also a great source of reference for anyone working with Agile daily.

Sergey’s extensive track record in planning and facilitating workshops, combined with his deep understanding of Scrum, made the training incredibly relevant and useful.

One aspect I really liked, which sets this workshop apart, is its tailored approach, offering different tracks and levels of exercises to match each participant’s expertise. This customization ensured that everyone, regardless of their experience level, could fully benefit from the training.

- Beni Goldenberg 🇺🇸

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Here’s how it’s going to work.

1. A week prior to the training

You will receive an email with specific details about the upcoming training, including:

• Your personal login information for access to the JIRA project managed by BACareerMentor. You and other participants will use this during the training.

• A welcome video from your instructor, Sergey Shimansky, CBAP, walking you through the registration in the Jira course project.

• A questionnaire to assess your current level of experience with user stories, Jira, and the Agile project framework. This information will be used to assign exercises that fit your skill level.

• The link to the private Zoom call that will be used during the training.

2. During the Training

You will work individually and in small groups with other participants, producing user stories in JIRA.

• We will do this using a real-world training project: an e-commerce website implementation in an Agile environment. Each participant will be assigned a specific functional area/epics, and the complexity of the exercises will be based on prior assessment.

• As we work on the training project, we’ll take pauses to learn some theory and the science behind core Scrum principles and elements, such as Story Points, Definition of Ready, and Scrum Events.

• The instructor-led class is organized over two days to accommodate your busy schedule—during evening time in Europe and lunchtime in the Americas. The on-demand course will contain all the lectures and exercises from the live training, which you can watch at your convenience.

3. Post-Training Benefits

To help you further implement your new skills and knowledge, the day after the training you will receive:

• A Certificate of Course Completion issued by BACareerMentor.com—use it to demonstrate your newly acquired skills to your colleagues and leaders.

• An invitation to a free, complimentary 1-on-1 Agile coaching session.

• A copy of the hand-out course workbook with all the exercises used at the training.

• Access to the Jira project for the entire week, use it as a playground to harden your newly acquired skills!

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⭐ "Exciting Learning Experience!"

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a two-day instructor-led class on Business Analysis and Agile User Story Creation. This training was incredibly enriching, providing me with valuable insights and practical tips on engaging with stakeholders and teams as a BA.

I actively participated in discussions, sharing my experience and skills to offer some nice insights. Thanks to this collaborative environment, I was able to learn a lot from other participants as well.

A big thank you to Sergey Shimansky, CBAP, for this opportunity, such well-prepared use cases, and insights into stakeholder engagement.

I’m also thrilled to have received a certification of attendance! Looking forward to applying these new skills in the future!

- Adrian Szubert 🇳🇱

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What’s Included?

• 10 intensive hands-on exercises with direct access to a live JIRA environment.

• Full emulation of an Agile team's work on an e-commerce project.

• Certificate of completion.

• Complimentary individual Q&A session with the instructor.

• Full money-back guarantee and a flexible cancellation policy.

• BONUS: Free lifetime access to a 3-in-1 Discovery Mastermind educational package ($79 value!)

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⭐ "Sergey is an excellent instructor."

I enjoyed participating in Sergey’s workshop, ‘User Stories with JIRA for Agile Teams.’ The materials are thorough and include helpful examples that often come up during discovery and backlog refinement sessions. Sergey is an excellent instructor. I highly recommend his workshop to anyone looking to hone their skills in Jira and writing requirements for Agile teams. There are several ideas you can apply to help make your next projects successful.

- John Rader 🇺🇸

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Meet Your Instructor!

Sergey Shimansky is an accomplished IT leader, business analyst, and product owner with over 20 years of experience. As the founder of BACareerMentor.com, Sergey is dedicated to helping aspiring business analysts and product owners accelerate their careers and navigate their professional journeys.

Currently serving as Head of Experience Consulting and Business Analysis at a global leader in service development, digital platform engineering, and digital product design, Sergey has a proven track record of building new digital products. He has led numerous e-commerce and content management projects for Fortune 500 organizations across the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union.

Sergey specializes in project discovery workshops with a focus on e-commerce, content strategy and customer journeys, multi-national content catalog structure, content publishing workflows, content components, content taxonomy and metadata, wireframes and UI interfaces, digital asset management, translation and localization, personalization.

Sergey is a Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I), and Scaled Agile Professional (SAFe® Agilist).