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 […]
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Volkswagen ERL: Customizing JIRA to Solve a Complex Problem
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 […]
JIRA Case Study: Nested Workflows
Using custom issue types and multiple nested workflows to bring business management processes into a project without disrupting the core workflow. Last month I had the pleasure of teaching a private JIRA Boot Camp at a national corporation on the East Coast. They had been using JIRA for a while, and had achieved a level […]
Example Software Development Workflow
Here is a quick case study of a workflow used at Oasis Digital (sister company of Expium) on complex software projects. We incorporate various important concepts including: Code Review Testing DOD (Definition of Done) Customer Shipment Production Validation
How to Add Labels to Issues
On occasion OD may require Issues to be sorted by labels of various types, whether for customer billing or internal processes. In JIRA, select the appropriate Project. From the menu on the left, select Issues. If needed you can filter the Issues to get a subset, or select All Issues. This will take you to […]
How to Create Issues
Once the above specifics have been determined, the Admin or Dev can enter the information into JIRA. From the top menu bar, select Issues–>Create Issue. From the Project pull-down menu, select the correct Project for this Issue, then do the same for the Issue Type. For Summary, type the Title of the Issue as provided […]
Dividing work into the right set of JIRA issues
Here is a very brief case study of how complex work is divided into the right set of Jira issues at Oasis Digital, Expium’s sister company. Typically an experienced developer or manager will choose and approach to this challenge for a particular project; the approach year has worked reasonably well for our teams.. Important to […]
How to Create a New Customer Project
A new project must be created in JIRA when we gain a new customer or begin a new initiative or feature with an existing customer. The project can be created by a manager, the project leader, or an administrative person. (If this task is assigned to an administrator, a manager or the project lead should […]