Category Archives: Jira

Manage Your Jira Data Center Instance Wisely With Guardrails

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In late June of 2022, Andrzej Kotas, a product manager for Jira Data Center, announced to the Atlassian community an exciting development in documentation and recommendations for Data Center deployments of Atlassian Tools. The post introduced Jira and Confluence guardrails. In today’s blog, we’ll go over the list of guardrails for Jira.

The WSJF Method for Prioritizing Work – and Integrating It in Jira with Awesome Custom Fields

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As a rule, tasks and work need to be prioritized before they are scheduled for processing. Some less experienced teams might intuitively think that prioritizing a backlog is not a big deal: a simple discrete order seems to be a good approach. But as soon as things get a bit more complex, it fails. For larger scenarios, the WSJF method offers a proven alternative. Here is an introduction along with a way to map the WSJF in Jira.

Autopage Goes Cloud – the Easiest Solution for Your Documentation Problems

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Do you also like to write documentation after a user story, a bug or in the course of a new development? No? Then you’re not the only one, because for very few people this is one of their favorite activities. For you and for all the documentation haters in the Atlassian ecosystem, we have good news: the AutoPage app is now available in a cloud version! With AutoPage, you can create Confluence pages with all the info that documentation pages need directly from Jira issues. Learn more about this useful app!

How to Easily Create Checklists in Confluence

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There’s nothing more satisfying than checking things off a to-do list. While it’s true that Confluence has its own built-in to-do list in the form of Action Items, this is very bare-bones. With Checklists for Confluence, you can create and share much more elaborate checklists. You can even load and use them on your phone with a QR code!

Build Your Own Support Ticket System in Confluence Cloud

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Every company that works with computers needs IT support. After all, once set up, computers don’t just sit there and do their jobs exactly the way they need to all the time. Or employees might need new hardware or software. Thankfully, there’s a way to create an IT support system in Confluence: with Properties!