Jira Dashboards Made Simple: The Why, How & Best Practices
Your Jira dashboard is the first thing you’ll see when you open up Jira. There’s hence a lot of value in making sure that it’s set up right for you and your day-to-day operations. This guide will offer some tips and tricks to getting everything you need out of the Jira dashboards. If you get […]
Atlassian Just Released Jira 8.0 – Here’s Everything You Should Know
On February 11, Atlassian finally announced the release of Jira 8.0! So what can Jira users expect when updating to this new version? Read on to find out everything you should know about the latest features and improvements. Productivity Updates Many new and updated features in Jira 8.0 will enable you and your team to […]
Jira to Jira Sync: How to Synchronize Multiple Jira Instances in 9 Steps
How can we integrate multiple Jira instances and projects bidirectionally? Jira is hands down one of the best project management and communication tools out there for development teams. But when you work with outside teams, whether they be service suppliers, clients, or outsourced teams, your collaborative Jira process can get a little sticky. This is […]
Jira Licensing: How much does it cost? And what’s included?
A first step to getting started with Jira is of course to buy a Jira license. Before you do that though, it’s good to know how much a Jira license costs, what a license includes and above all where do I buy those licenses. Direct? Through a partner? Direct is against all logic. It’s not […]
The Jira JQL Advanced Guide: How to Search Jira Issues Like a Pro
JQL, or Jira Query Language, is a flexible tool that allows you to search for issues in Jira and pinpoint exactly what you are looking for. Knowing how to search your Jira instance effectively can literally save you hours of work. Power users who employ Jira on a daily basis may already have a grasp […]
Watching Issues in Jira: The Comprehensive Playbook
An important part of using Jira effectively is being able to track issues that are important to you. Fortunately, Jira makes this incredibly simple with its “watching” functionality. By watching an issue you sign up to receive email notifications whenever the issue is updated, allowing you to monitor work as it happens. In this guide […]
My life runs on Jira: an inventory system for carp fishing
This article was written by Damien Lauberton, Atlassian Allstar at Idalko. I have a true passion for JIRA Software. And I was excited to describe how I’ve been able to combine it with another one of my interests outside the workplace: as an inventory system for carp fishing. In fact, my original piece on the […]
Jira Bitbucket Integration: the Complete Guide for 2024
While Jira integrates nicely with a lot of tools, nothing beats its Bitbucket integration for combining your development and management workflows. It’s no surprise Bitbucket and Jira get along so well: they’re both Atlassian tools. And they’re both mature products, focused on helping developers build complex software. Here I’ll put together the definitive guide to […]
The 2020 blueprint to Agile Retrospectives using Jira
This blog post was written in collaboration with Luis Ortiz from Nearsoft Agile software development is all about delivering incremental value to the user and the continuous improvement of the team member’s abilities to do so. Continuous improvement is a challenge that Agile methodologies address in the 12 principles behind the Agile Manifesto: “At regular intervals, […]
Time Tracking in Jira: The Comprehensive Guide for 2024
In this comprehensive guide we’ll discuss best practices, tips and tricks, Jira add-ons, configuration, and everything else there is to know about Jira time tracking. “Success has to be measurable” has become an important principle in modern corporate governance. If you can’t measure your success, you can’t evaluate it and draw conclusions out of it […]