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  1. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    Back in December 2021 Atlassian announced that there would be some changes coming to Epics and in April we learned that Epics would see an update to how Jira manage Epic Name and Epic Summary. What does all this mean, and when can you expect to see the changes in your Jira instance? Let us dive into the information we have and see if we can answer those questions. Why is Epic changing? Having the ability to change, or rename rather, Epics have been requested for well over a decade and
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    In the last few years, Jira have moved more and more towards JIRA project isolation. This is causing problems for companies that are working collaborative across multiple JIRA projects, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to use because of that. In a short period of time boards have become almost unusable where cross-linking projects cause things like roadmaps and scrum boards to stop working. This is a mindset issue, as well as an architectural one. It is clear that Atlassian's tools
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    Jira is a great tool, but it is often abused by trying to make it do more than it does. One such abuse I see a lot is excessively long workflows, which is usually introduced by management. This is problematic because the longer the workflow, the more you will need to go up in scope for each issue. This is because there is no 1-1 relation between the different areas. This is the most common cause for having huge stories with tons of subtasks. Before we go any further, let us first define wha
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    Atlassian recently announced a reboot of their Jira Core, which was practically unused by everyone due to its lack of unique features. The reboot comes with a new name, Jira Work Management, and a new setup focused on business teams. This is a great change and it will make Jira a bit more interesting for business teams in the future. Four views to rule them all Jira Work Management focuses around three main views: Board, List View, Timeline and Calendar. There are of course
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  5. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    Regardless if you work in a continuous delivery flow like Kanban, a sequential delivery flow like waterfall or an iterative delivery flow like Scrum, you will benefit greatly from having portfolio management. Having a dedicated funnel ensures that you get a proper overlook of your incoming request. In this article we will discuss how that can be done by creating a process for it in Jira Software. Advanced Roadmaps is a very useful tool because it allows us to get the big picture. It also al
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  6. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    One of the biggest cause for complicated workflows and custom fields is the fact that Jira has never been a deployment tool, but the teams need the visibility of deploys. With this latest update to Jira Software Cloud we see improvements in this field with no less than four new features. DevOps teams or not, this will make life easier for everyone. While there are several add-ons for Jira Software Cloud that will tie together repositories with Jira, this is now a standard feature in Jira. T
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  7. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    The requests to get Portfolio for Jira for Cloud users have been loud and finally Atlassian released a Cloud version. They also made a very odd choice to rename Portfolio for Jira to Advanced Roadmaps and place it behind the Cloud Premium barrier. Portfolio for Jira has long been the better choice for Jira Server and Jira DC users. The features have been perfectly suited for managers to keep an overview over large programs and initiatives with relative ease. As such it has been the envy of
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  8. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    Automation in Jira have long been requested by the customers and now it is finally here for all Jira Cloud customers. This new feature is actually not new, but it is the popular Automation for Jira app that was purchased by Atlassian in 2019. Not only is this an amazing addition, it is also completely free for all Jira Cloud users. Automation for Jira was purchased by Atlassian back in October 2019 and in March 2020 the automation functionality was made available natively to every single
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  9. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    Atlassian promoted their Free version of Jira Cloud recently as their way to help remote teams during the Corona crisis. Like many I thought this was great and I moved over from the normal trial version I had. Today all my projects was gone and I just realized that the free version is severely reduced in function. It is in my opinion nothing more than a money grab to lure people in and make them upgrade to the $10 version. To trick people to sign up for a service without telling them that
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  10. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    Portfolio for Jira and it's third iteration that was released in April 2019 has some great features. In no less than 18 releases since the main release Portfolio for Jira has grown into a powerful tool to manage projects and programs in Jira. This is a summary of the biggest features released for Portfolio for Jira 3.0.   Set a plan that reflects your reality One of the most difficult aspect of managing teams in Jira is to get a holistic overview. Using Portfolio for Jira this bec
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  11. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    In the last article we talked about defining workflows, so now it's time to talk about defining custom fields and screens. The custom fields is where most companies make many mistakes by trying to build new ways for Jira to work and screens almost no one seem to use. Let us change that, but first let us go over what these things are. We start with custom fields. Custom fields explained Custom fields are extensions of the data built in to Jira by default. This allow you to make adjustments
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  12. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    The Roadmap feature in Jira Cloud's NextGen projects is getting three new features. While all good additions, the question still remain who these new features are for and to what extent these new features will make people move over to NextGen projects. NextGen for Jira Cloud is in a strange place as it is not really defined what is can and should be used for. The Roadmap feature is in a similar place as it fall somewhere between Portfolio for Jira and the Roadmap planner macro in Confluenc
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  13. 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
    Jenkins is used by many teams around the world and for a while now the plug-in integrating Jenkins with Jira Software has been unsupported. However now Atlassian have announced an official integration with Jenkins. The integration itself allow build information from Jenkins to be posted throughout Jira Software Cloud. This is similar to other CI/CD tools where you can automatically send build and deployment information from Jenkins and display it across Jira issues, boards and query it via
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