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.

Jira Software offers various tools for tracking performance and progress. One of its prominent features is the burndown chart, which visually represents the team's output in relation to projected work estimations during sprints and epics. This article explores the concept of burndown charts and their advantages, and provides guidance on creating and interpreting them. 

This article by Rachel Wrigth highlights the importance of using bulk edit capabilities in Jira to effectively manage thousands of issues and keep them updated and in sync with reality. It addresses common challenges teams face in ensuring accurate data in Jira and dealing with an overwhelming backlog. 

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.

This white paper discusses the challenges faced by organizations in resource management and how appropriate software tools like BigPicture and Jira can help increase resource management capabilities. The paper provides insights into the five maturity levels in portfolio resource management and highlights the risks and challenges associated with software tools implementation. 

In organizations that have implemented Jira, IT teams and key stakeholders may find themselves managing the tool as an additional responsibility. However, this can become increasingly challenging to scale and manage over time. In a brief recording, Jake Churcher, a Product Manager and IT specialist, provides insights on avoiding becoming solely responsible for Jira and accumulating a backlog of projects and other obligations.

This whitepaper by Atlassian and Valiantys explores the changing work landscape. It provides insights on how to transform your organization to take advantage of market changes to benefit customers and competitiveness.

Rodney Nissen (TheJiraGuy) characterizes Agile Poker for Jira by Appfire as a solution that facilitates collaborative estimation, even for teams that cannot be physically present. In this review, he highlights that the app goes further by offering a mode that allows teams to estimate even when they are not online simultaneously.