Tag Archives: JIRA

Cup O’ Links

Hope everyone is having a great week! Below you’ll find a JIRA “Cup O’ Links,” a few helpful links to articles that answer some common questions and problems users face with JIRA. JIRA in a Nutshell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrCJv0fTyR8 JIRA Test Case Management https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=117832&type=member&item=5938625575680765955&trk=groups_items_see_more-0-b-ttl Creating Help for a Custom Field https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Creating+Help+for+a+Custom+Field JIRA: to Close or to Resolve? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4718471/jira-to-close-or-to-resolve […]

Filters

JIRA is based around the central concept of an issue. When you start collecting a large number of issues in a project you need a way to find what you are looking for and identify a subset of issues. Powerful issue search functionality is included in JIRA using both the GUI and the JIRA Query […]

JIRA Training – The Little Things

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When I observe various JIRA installations, some common problems tend to bubble to the surface. Many cases of poor adoption or user interaction can be traced back to inadequate setup. As a JIRA Admin or champion you can send a clear message to your users by how you approach the system in the first place. […]

JIRA Training – Workflows

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Atlassian’s JIRA is a powerful tool to manage your team and your projects. Having a tool and bringing a tool to bear on a problem are two totally different things. I teach a JIRA Boot Camp class that is three days long and focuses on skills, like workflow configuration, needed to be successful implementing JIRA. What is […]

Using JIRA: Being a Winner not a Loser!

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When using a tool like JIRA to curate your project management processes it is important to use it effectively. It is very easy to move off of the “happy” path and into the weeds that cycle a project into chaos. I want to touch on a few of the pitfalls and also highlight a couple […]

Adapting a Microsoft Project Mind to a JIRA World

Over the last two years I have been steadily transitioning from project based, hardware-centric systems, to the world of software development. This transition has required me to adapt in many ways, some were easy and some were quite difficult. As I prepare for the Atlassian Summit in San Francisco this week I am reminded of the journey […]

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