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 […]
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 […]
Often I describe JIRA as a large set of Legos in a bucket. JIRA is one of those tools that is so flexible it is hard to get your head around how to use it. The Lego analogy works on many levels. Using the predefined project types, JIRA Agile, JIRA Service Desk, etc is like […]
At Oasis Digital, Expium’s sister company, our core business is to build custom software that helps our customers thrive. Everyone that works at Oasis Digital solves challenging technical problems every day. Our team creates solutions for complex customer needs, and is constantly improving our technology stack to do this more effectively. Similarly, at Expium we […]
System Administrators often find themselves caught trying to fulfill the promises and hype that come with a new system purchase. As ERP companies learned the hard way over the last twenty years, a system is only as good as its user adoption. Metrics cannot flow to management without individual users, on a consistent basis, doing […]
A student in a recent JIRA Boot Camp commented on how I described agile processes differently than a consultant her company had brought in. She noted that what I described seemed to make more sense. This got me thinking about those differences, why our approaches were different, and why it should matter. I read a […]
Strategies for successfully traversing the ever shifting Atlassian UI Atlassian’s JIRA is a fascinating platform for me to use, teach about, and study. I have been working with computers since I was a child in the 80’s. My parents did not buy an Atari game machine when they were popular, we bought an Atari 400 […]
What is a Wallboard? A Wallboard displays imperative data about the headway of the team. Wallboards are large, distinguishable, and easily understood for anyone passing by. Not unlike a scoreboard for a football game. Classic Wallboards are made of paper, poster board, or sticky notes put on a wall. However, Electronic Wallboards assure that employees […]
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. Configuring Workflow Schemes Calculate TAT for Issue Type Bug JIRA Administration – Advantages of Using Project Roles Associating a Screen with an Issue Operation […]
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 […]
