Is your team's backlog a source of strategic clarity or a chaotic list of forgotten tasks? Optimize Backlogs and Jira Readiness is a practical, beginner-friendly course designed to transform your product backlog from a liability into a high-value asset. This course is for anyone in an agile team—Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members alike—who wants to introduce predictability and efficiency to their workflow by ensuring work is well-prepared before a sprint begins.
Optimize Backlogs and Jira Readiness
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Optimize Backlogs and Jira Readiness
This course is part of Jira Workflow Automation & Optimization Specialization
Instructor: LearningMate
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1 hour to complete
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What you'll learn
Learners will assess backlog health using metrics and implement a Definition of Ready (DoR) in Jira to ensure user story quality and team efficiency.
Skills you'll gain
- Project Estimation
- Process Development
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Process Design
- Continuous Improvement Process
- Sprint Planning
- Workflow Management
- Quality Assurance
- Prioritization
- User Story
- Agile Product Development
- Backlogs
- Jira (Software)
- Agile Methodology
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
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January 2026
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There are 2 modules in this course
A healthy backlog is the engine of an efficient agile team. In this module, you will learn to become a "backlog doctor" by using key metrics to diagnose common problems such as stale tickets and poorly distributed work. You will analyze real-world examples, such as the technical debt issues at Amazon, to understand the high cost of neglect and to learn how to make data-driven recommendations for improvement.
What's included
1 video2 readings2 assignments
This module shifts from diagnosis to action. You will learn how to create and implement a formal Definition of Ready (DoR)—a powerful quality gate that ensures stories are well-prepared before they enter a sprint. You will translate the INVEST criteria into an actionable checklist and practice embedding it into a team's workflow to automate quality and reduce ambiguity.
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