PPM & Process Improvement

Jan Kuntscher released their first episode with an exciting update from Atlassian: Whiteboards for Confluence. In this video you'll get an overview of the enhanced collaboration of Whiteboards with seamless Jira integration and powerful visualization options. 

In project management, efficiency is crucial, and time is valuable. To meet stakeholders' expectations, project managers must efficiently organize projects while ensuring collaboration. Jira ticket templates serve as valuable tools in this regard. This guide provides insights into maximizing their benefits.

For many professionals, including freelancers, accountants, lawyers, advertising firms, PR agencies, and consultants, precise time management is crucial. It plays a pivotal role in internal project coordination and, more importantly, in properly billing client services. This post delves into the nuances between billable and non-billable hours, outlines the activities you can charge for, and underscores the importance of monitoring your billable hours.

For businesses, monitoring team activities like comments, issue updates, and due date changes in Jira is crucial for smooth collaboration, conflict prevention, and compliance adherence. Jira offers multiple methods to track these activities. This brief guide explores the various ways to monitor daily user activity in Jira.

This article by Kat Boogaard delves into the established blueprint for decision-making, guiding you and your team to identify challenges, weigh options, and make well-informed choices. The author breaks down each stage in this process and provides insights on how to tackle them.

Jira Product Discovery is a tool designed for product managers, aiding in prioritization and roadmapping. Over the past year, Edmund Munday, Senior Product Manager at Bitbucket, integrated it into his team's workflow. In the first video of the series, Edmund covers the initial steps of product management, from proposal to immediate action. 

Swimlanes in Jira is a feature that divides the board into horizontal rows, providing a way to further organize issues in your sprint or project. They can help make the board more manageable and provide a quick way to identify bottlenecks and track the progress of tasks within different categories. In this article, you can explore ideas shared by Old Street Solutions' Marketing Team. 

In this three-part series, you will discover how several Atlassian teams effectively organize meetings, particularly with remote employees. Explore real-life scenarios where Trello and Confluence are used together to enhance meeting efficiency and productivity.

This webinar challenges the skepticism surrounding time recording and reporting in agile teams. The hosts, in collaboration with Tempo, the market leader in the timesheet category for Atlassian, believe that time management best practices can lead to high-performance teams.

Jira Work Management is a collaborative platform that enables business teams to track and manage their work efficiently. This is a comprehensive guide to Jira Work Management. It covers the basics of the platform, offers best practices for agility and collaboration, presents some of the best use cases, and provides an overview of apps and integrations. 

In software development, Jira is a widely-used tool that needs no introduction. But have you ever wondered if Jira can be utilized for non-software projects and teams? The answer is a resounding yes! Jira can be an effective solution for any team that needs to organize work in simple, easy-to-follow issues and track progress across workflows. This guide explores how non-software teams can benefit from using Jira and how to implement it effectively.