Last year Atlassian released a trial version of a new Issue View Screen in the Cloud version of Jira. This blog will walk through the differences between the old and new version. Note: This new View Screen can be turned off by selecting the “Turn off new issue view” link under the ellipses. Selecting this […]
Last week Atlassian announced a shift in Jira Service Desk to further support non-IT teams and business divisions, increasing JSD’s flexibility when deployed with a customer. Specifically targeting HR, Legal and Facilities groups, Atlassian added out-of-the-box templates for JSD Next-Gen projects. Templates include request types that are tailored to a specific business unit with workflows […]
New User Roles on Jira Cloud and their relationship to Groups and Global Permission Jira has recently announced several new user features for the Cloud instance. One major addition is User Roles, which will now allow Admins to categorize users. User Roles come in three types: Basic, Trusted, Site AdministratorUser Roles are different from Project […]
Excitement was in the air throughout this year’s Atlassian summit. Attendees were delighted by the glitz of Las Vegas, overwhelmed by the music, food and party at the Bash on the Mandalay Bay beach, and thrilled by Atlassian staff (include Scott and Mike) dressed up in Elvis costumes while crooning “Jira! Jira Las Vegas”! Here […]
On February 22, Expium and Atlassian jointly hosted an Atlassian Governance Forum. We had about 40 companies, and as many as 90 people, that participated throughout the day. This event created a great opportunity to review important strategic and tactical factors for ensuring success, as Atlassian products expand across the enterprise. Great questions and stories […]
The Constitutional Convention of the United States was a protracted affair for good reason: planning and implementing governance is hard. When separate parties have competing agendas, compromise becomes the only way forward. And when tempers and fears grow, sometimes compromise becomes more of a personal challenge than a professional one. As with countries, companies are […]
Governance is a tricky topic to talk or write about. It is misunderstood, misused, or confusing to most people. Yet the concept of Governance comes into play in every aspect of any organization. Governance and policy should not be viewed as bureaucracy run amok, or heavy handed control. Good Governance can actually prevent bureaucracy and […]
Summary Good governance of Atlassian products will ensure controlled scalability, visible change management, and open knowledge sharing across the entire enterprise. Broadly speaking, Enterprise Governance is a structure critical for promoting the best balance between company goals with company growth. Specifically, those Enterprises that depend on Atlassian tools must be versatile and prepared for growth. […]
Summary In JIRA User, Groups & Roles are located in different places and have different functions and Permissions. This document will review the key functionality and differences around people and permissions in JIRA. User, Groups & Roles Locations The locations of people is in more than one place in JIRA. This represents not only the […]
The problem Project management teams, and software “power users”, generally enjoy the Jira user interface. They finally can configure it to be “close enough” to a specific problem they are trying to solve, yet also retain the full general Jira issue management capabilities. This works very well… for the right users. But here at Expium, […]
Summary As agile coaches and Atlassian Partners, we’ve helped companies of all sizes across varying industries successfully adopt and become agile. Agile is no longer reserved for fast-moving software development teams: Business units, C-level executives, and even military operations are all aspiring to become agile and more responsive so they can stay competitive in a […]
Hello, this is Jack Balbes with Expium’s JIRA Boot Camp. This video is an explanation of how to set up JIRA Data Center in the Amazon Web Services cloud. To do that, we’re going to set up a Virtual Private Cloud and then, inside of that, we’re going to have an Active Directory server, which […]
At Expium, we have been asked to complete some interesting projects. In early 2016 we were engaged by Volkswagen ERL to train their team on the use of Atlassian tools and consult on their implementation. Like many of our customers, they had tried to run on their own and had hit the limit of their […]
We often get several questions in class about the differences between JIRA System Administrators and JIRA Administrators, especially as they relate to Global Permissions & Groups: What is the difference between JIRA System Administrators and JIRA Administrators? Why is there a JIRA Administrators Global Permission and a jira-administrators group? Why does JIRA Cloud version only […]
With the release of Jira Portfolio 2.0, Atlassian has unlocked some high level reporting features that were previously either completely unavailable to users, or required advanced levels of development work to attain. With the new customizable hierarchy, large amounts of epics and projects, extending for months or years at a time, can now be tracked. […]
In August, 2016 we held a private live webinar for our clients. We have had a lot of interest in Portfolio and decided to publish video of the webinar and a transcription here, in this post. Some minor editing of the text has occurred to assist with the flow. Michael: Welcome to our Portfolio 2.0 […]
In the JIRA Boot Camp class we use a number of illustrations to support the curriculum. These diagrams become a visual foundation and support visual learners. Students are also encouraged to reference these as they work with JIRA. The full set are included here in this post for easy access.
We use JIRA Software not only to manage our software projects, but also as part of our class sales process. To help capture leads, we had a form on our website that collected potential student information into a Google Sheet, which we then transcribed into JIRA items. This was fine at first, but as the […]
