All posts by Joshua Brock

Adopting SAFe® in Small Steps

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Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) takes Agile and Lean principles and implements them at an enterprise or large organization level to increase and drive efficiencies, meet the requirements of stakeholders, and improve customer satisfaction. This article explores the benefits and processes of making the transition via smaller steps rather than one giant leap.

Project Templates in Jira with Templating app

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“Start from scratch”, is a phrase we both love and hate. Those “hate” moments tend to rear their heads when you work as part of a team where consistency and repeatability are paramount. Enjoy some love in a team environment with Templating.app’s new Project Templates where users are empowered to streamline their project initiation process, saving time and ensuring consistency across all endeavors.

Bringing Style to Your Confluence Space

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As a Confluence user, there can come a time when you want to move beyond a standard appearance, tailoring it more to your specific needs. You want to make the experience for you and your colleagues as enjoyable and productive as possible, realizing the greatest value to the organization. This article will give you some tips for customizing your Confluence Spaces to fill your needs and then some!

Join Us For The European SAFe® Summit 2024

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Join the Agile Hive team at the European SAFe® Summit 2024 in Berlin, Germany, from April 8-11. You will find a transformative experience filled with region-specific keynotes, in-depth discussions, inspiring customer stories, interactive exhibits, and endless networking opportunities. Find out more in this article or just visit us at our booth! We’re looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

The Best Way to Organize Confluence Spaces

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If you’ve been a Confluence user for any length of time and it hasn’t already become painfully obvious, it soon will. The “it” being that while a great tool for collaborative content creation and knowledge sharing, when not organized properly, Confluence can become an overwhelming sea of information, making it extremely difficult to find what you’re looking for. This article offers some tips on how to organize your existing Confluence spaces and pages best and set the stage for an efficient and productive workflow for years to come.

Properties to the (HR) Rescue – Saving Workflows From The Brink of Chaos

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This article discusses how your HR department could simplify and streamline their workflows making use of Properties’ new Board visualization. Using Kanban-like functionality, the developers at Junovi have expanded the intuitive features of their Properties app. With the Property Group Visualization macro, you can create either an OrgChart or Board view. We’ll take a look at how specifically the Board view gives you the ease and functionality of a Kanban board.

Say Hello To FlowDingo – The Workflow App for Jira

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FlowDingo is not just any task management app. The result of a collaborative development effort between Seibert Media and Kantega SSO, the core of FlowDingo’s design is enabling teams to order tasks in a workflow, and then provide a visual overview of that flow within a ticket. It helps Jira users track the myriad of dependencies between an issue’s tasks. Now available for download in the Atlassian Marketplace, we think you’ll enjoy the functionality of an app that integrates many of the features of a full project management tool, without all the fuss. And it’s right within your Jira!

Quality Management Features In Properties for Confluence

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With the modern-day workforce often being completely remote or a hybrid form of remote and in-office, quality management becomes more difficult. You can’t always pick up the phone or walk to someone’s desk. To be able to see “who did what and when” in Confluence, Properties now lets you view certain changes in the metadata so you don’t have to wait for that colleague from overseas to come online anymore.