What is Jira?
Jira isn’t just a tool—it’s the backbone of modern project collaboration. Whether you're managing daily tasks or orchestrating large-scale initiatives, Jira brings your team together with clarity and purpose. It acts as a single source of truth, giving everyone the context they need to move fast without losing sight of the bigger picture. With AI-powered insights and flexible workflows, Jira helps teams stay aligned, make smarter decisions, and deliver better results—faster.
My Jira Videos
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Why does your team keep missing sprint commitments even when everyone is working hard? The answer isn't effort, it's capacity planning done wrong. In this episode, Alex and Atlassian expert Jimi Wikman have a brutally honest conversation about what capacity management really is, why most teams get it completely backwards, and what you can actually do about it. If you've ever watched a sprint fail and wondered why this video is going to hit home. 👉 What we cover: 🤔 Capacity management vs. resourc
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When Atlassian announced that they were looking into individual resource planning, I was super excited! When I witnessed the first post on how they are thinking about implementing it, I was heartbroken... This is my BRUTALLY honest opinion on the suggested setup of individual capacity planning... in Jira. You can expect a deep dive into resource management, resource planning, and how I would do it if I had a position at Atlassian. Enter at your own peril.
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In Jira we have all been using Jira projects as the container for our work, but now, finally, that is changing. Jira Projects are being renamed to Jira Spaces!! This was announced today in the Atlassian community, and I could not be more happy about this finally being publicly announced! This change is for Jira, Jira Service Management and Jira Product Discovery. #jira #jiraservicemanagement #jiraproductdiscovery #atlassian #atlassianchampion #namechange --- Atlassian Community Post: https://com
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Atlassian Team '25 was held last week in Anaheim California and as always it was a massive marketing campaign designed to hype and increase sales. 00:00 - Like last year's event however there is more happening than just new features and new products. Atlassian is changing before our eyes and this year a lot of big changes occurred! 01:29 - Categorizing the Atlassian apps (products) is now happening, and we see a whole new ecosystem unfold. Atlassian is renaming their products to become apps, whi
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A short video on the new backgrounds and amazing gradients that has been released for Jira Work Management. Which one is your favorite? Atlassian Community Article: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Work-Management-Articles/New-gradient-and-color-backgrounds-in-Jira-Work-Management/ba-p/2646671 #atlassian #jiraworkmanagement #colors #gradients #jira #atlassiancreator
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App updates for Jira
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Broken App Update.
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You can now view your work hierarchy when grouping work items in the Jira list. This update allows you to maintain the structure of your parent and child work items while organizing your view by specific fields, making it easier to track related tasks within your grouped lists. To get started with this change: Go to your Jira project list page Select Group by from the toolbar and choose a field to group your work. Select Hierarchy to show the parent and child relationships within each group.
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Jira now lets you invite new users and assign them to issues in a single step, making it easier to add people to your team and keep work moving. This update removes the extra invite step, reducing friction and saving time for users. To get started with this change: Select Assignee on an issue. Enter the email address of a person who is not yet a user. Select Invite and assign to complete both actions in one step. Key changes Invite new users and assign them to issues in a single action. The
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Jira plans now support more types of custom fields, allowing you to view and manage more of your data directly within the plan timeline. Save time and unblock your planning process by adding, filtering, and sorting fields that were previously not available. To get started with this change Open a plan in Jira. Go to Plan settings, then Timeline. Select Add field. Choose the field type you want to add from the list of newly supported types. Select Add to see the field on your plan. Key change
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It’s now easier to manage work items in the Related work section. You can unlink work items directly from the row to remove what’s no longer relevant and keep your view up to date. To unlink a work item from the Related work section: Hover over any row with a work item. Select the cross icon that appears and then Unlink.
Jira Stories
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Atlassian Bamboo Data Center and Server, Bitbucket Data Center and Server, Confluence Data Center and Server, Fisheye/Crucible, Jira Data Center and Server, and Jira Service Management Data Center and Server are vulnerable. In current versions, developers have closed, among other things, DoS and malicious code security vulnerabilities.
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I wanted to share this article I posted in our Enterprise Community group last week about how we are continuing our investment in improving how you work in Jira, Jira Service Management, and Jira Product Discovery at scale, with: New limits: Starting September 2026, the Jira Cloud family of apps will enforce hard limits on several data types, listed below. New guardrails: You asked, we listened, and more guardrails are here to help you understand best practices and recommended thresholds for da
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Keeper Security, the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform, today announces two new native Atlassian Jira integrations. The integrations with the widely-used issue and Project Tracking software embed security incident response and privileged access governance directly into existing Jira workflows while keeping access enforcement centralized in Keeper.
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We’re constantly on the hunt for greater application speed and usability improvements. Our telemetry has show that Development data in this location was contributing to slower page load times. It also showed that the usefulness of the data varies across team members and their roles. And so, we saw an opportunity to improve speed and usability. Here’s what the new Development Panel experience looks like.
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Following Atlassian’s recent announcement about Jira moving to seasonal releases to provide better predictability, reduce surprises, and ensure a higher-quality experience when features land (Coming soon: Jira seasonal releases), we want to share more detail on how this will work for Cloud Premium and Enterprise customers using Release Tracks—specifically, when major user-visible changes will land in Sandbox and Production environments for Jira.
