“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” – Happy Inventors Day!

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Today is Inventors Day in the USA, and as an “inventor” of lots of Confluence and Jira apps, we thought we’d share a bit of information about this holiday and some of our better and less well-known apps, even some that didn’t make it onto the Atlassian Marketplace.

I 🧡 Draw.io #5: 3 Tips to Create Presentations Your Team Will Love

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If your history teacher, instead of rattling off boring facts, has recreated important battles with pictures, graphics or even miniature figures or Lego, you know yourself: Information is better remembered when it is conveyed in a clear way. This also applies to presentations, one of the main tools for conveying information. But here, many quickly reach their limits. The result: cluttered, unclear or not very meaningful slides. We’ll show you how to integrate even complex diagrams into presentations with draw.io and how to prepare them in such a way that your audience will be thrilled!

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3 Steps To Make Your Sprint Planning Easier In Jira Cloud

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Within our worlds of product and project management, where Jira is one of, if not the essential tool in our toolkit, implementing complementary tools to make our work more efficient yields greater effectiveness. One such stellar example is Templating.app – Easy Issues & Subtasks, which allows product owners to create predefined sets of Jira issues needed with every new sprint. Find out how it can help during sprint planning in this article.

Linchpin Intranet Suite: We Are More Than Just Colleagues

Linchpin Suite: We are more than just co-workers

When you think of the traditional tools many of us use to get our work done – email, intranets and shared networks, video conferencing, etc. – my guess is these do not then simultaneously make you think of friendships with colleagues, sharing both the personal and professional gems of your lives. They most likely make you think, “these are the tools I use to get my work done”. There is a way out: The Linchpin Intranet Suite combines traditional work tools and social media tools.

December Is Approaching: We Present the Second Keynote of the Tools4AgileTeams Conference 2022!

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The father of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Dean Leffingwell, will be a guest at the 11th Tools4AgileTeams conference on December 1-2, 2022! He will deliver a keynote on Business Agility with SAFe and provide valuable insights on how organizations can successfully create value for customers without disruption. Find out what else will be at the upcoming T4AT in our blog post.

3 Steps To Building More Beautiful and Engaging Pages in Confluence Cloud

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You’ve probably seen them: those internet pages that immediately suck you in with their beautiful design and content. But Confluence only has a pretty standard editor that doesn’t let you add a lot of interesting visual elements. Well, if you get the Aura macros, you can make your pages beautiful in just a few steps with just a few of its macros. Read this article to find out how.

Don’t Fear Change! How to Scale Agile with the Right Tools

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Change can be a scary thing, like when your company grows and grows and grows… until it’s very different from that startup that you created a couple of years ago. Or maybe your company is already very big, but you need to keep up with those rapidly changing startups. But this kind of change is nothing to be scared about; it can just be a bit hard to scale up the agile workflow that you were used to. Enter SAFe, Agile Hive and Jira Align, a framework and two tools that will make life much easier for you!