Jira Software tips
Getting the most out of JQL with Atlassian Marketplace add-ons
One of the great things about Jira is that it is easily extensible. It’s extensiblity layer makes it easy to add new features or extend existing ones. JQL is no exception in that regard. There are a number of plugins for Jira on the Atlassian Marketplace that enhance JQL. You can also develop custom functions […]
7 steps to a beautiful and useful agile dashboard
Greetings agile fans! A question I often get is how to configure Jira’s dashboards to show content that’s relevant for agile teams. It’s really just a matter of choosing the right elements. We’ll focus on a dashboard for a scrum team here, but many of these tips apply to kanban teams as well. If you […]
Introducing Jira Cloud for iPad
It’s no secret that the use of mobile devices is now widespread for businesses large and small, across all industries. When we launched Jira Cloud for iPhone last year, among the first questions was: “When is it coming to iPad?” The answer is: today! We’re excited to announce Jira Cloud for iPad is here. Jira […]
The connected value of agile and git
Building software is a lot harder than it looks. Customer requirements evolve, priorities shift, dependencies form and break, and at times progress seems to be at odds with plans. Agile teams deal with this by embracing customer collaboration and healthy team interaction, as well as placing a premium on responding to change with speed. However, […]
Keep everyone focused on what matters with the new Jira Cloud for Slack
By popular request, we’ve teamed up with Slack to make it easier for teams to stay in sync, focus on the task at hand, and get the right people on the job with the new Jira Cloud for Slack app. Multiple projects, an overabundance of information, and distributed team members can make teamwork difficult. The […]
Display Jira Issues in Confluence: more power, more control
Having the information you need to do your job doesn’t have to be hard. Creating a single source of truth for your project details and issue tracking is effortless too, with a seamless way to display Jira issues in Confluence. Have more control over which issues show up and how they appear, right from your […]
Bringing sanity to your website development projects
Websites. They just happen – right? Wrong! Just ask anyone who manages projects for a living. Unfortunately, this isn’t an obvious answer to a lot of people out there who request website projects. The thinking is that websites are so simple, easy to use, and beautiful, they must be a breeze to create. But, there […]
How to scale Jira Software to 10,000+ users
What do you do when your Jira Software instance grows from 10 to 10,000+ users? This was what Brian Wallace and Mike Damman, Vice President and Knowledge Architect at Cerner, the leading U.S. supplier of healthcare information technology, needed to answer in order to meet the needs of their growing teams. How do you guarantee reliability […]
Portfolio for Jira meets kanban
No matter what agile framework your team uses, Portfolio for Jira can forecast a realistic roadmap for your product or project. In our blogs about Portfolio for Jira, we’ve focused heavily on Scrum methodology, but lately we’ve been getting more questions about how kanban can be planned in Portfolio for Jira. So lets see how […]
6 steps to better release management in Jira
In a DevOps world, work is often merged to master multiple times a day, but it’s not always easy to know when changes ship. Developers have full control over deploying their changes to customers which makes it extra important that those changes are tracked. The good news is that teams can automate much of this process using Jira or Jira Service Desk. Here are six actionable steps for better release management in the Jira platform.
4 new Jira Software features you didn’t know about
Since the launch of Jira Software, we’ve added some features to make the lives of every software team member easier. But you might not know these features exist! Read on to learn how these four features put more control of Jira projects into the hands of team leads, scrum masters, and developers. You can start using these features today, and we guarantee they’ll make you and your team more efficient.
4 tips for using Jira and Outlook
In a software development setting, it’s a common requirement to transfer information from emails to Jira Software, Jira Core, or Jira Service Desk. Have you ever wondered “Is there is a faster way to create a new issue?” Or “How do I work with the Jira Software notification emails?” These four best practices will answer those questions and show you how to get the most out of using Jira Software and Outlook together.
Jira Software just got easier to navigate (and more fun, too)
The new customizable sidebar brings projects and your team to center stage in Jira Software. Read on for our list of conventional (and not-so-conventional) ways to use it.
Skyscanner’s tips for bug triage in Jira + Jira Service Desk
When something goes wrong, it’s nice to know that you can simply raise a ticket and see it fixed. For those of us doing the fixing, it’s not as easy as it looks. You’ve probably got a backlog of tickets that you need to sort through each day. Some of those tickets actually report a […]
Break it down: decomposing user stories in Jira
With over 500k agile projects in Jira (among just Cloud customers – wow!), we realized we’re sitting on a ton of data that sheds light on how agile teams function. We then bet, that with some anonymized data mining, we could find teams that have a release cadence that they hit sprint after sprint after sprint.