Navigating Jira permissions can indeed feel overwhelming. In this brief article, Mads Kristiansen will help you discern roles and walk you through the essentials of the process. 

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.

In this webinar, Atlassian's Cathi Davey and Jeremy Cooley demonstrate how teams utilize Jira Service Management to enhance the intake of work such as bug reports and development ideas, improve incident response by integrating development teams into incident swarming, automatically track deployments for governance and compliance, and foster collaboration on the Atlassian platform tailored for innovative team collaboration.

Atlassian products can be tailored a lot, but with Forge, you can tweak them even more. Forge works with Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Confluence, and Compass, and this article gives you some ideas on using Forge to customize these products. 

The whitepaper by Isos Technology focuses on ITSM teams new to automation in Jira Service Management, covering topics such as the native automation features, the basic components of a JSM automation rule, the benefits of implementing automation, and how it can simplify complex ITSM processes like employee onboarding.

A research report conducted by Appfire, Isos Technology, and Adience analyzes data and insights from over 200 industry leaders and automation experts. It aims to separate fact from fiction and assess the current state of automation and its impact on businesses. 

Jira reporting is critical in obtaining quick insights into projects, teams, and individual users. As described in this article, Jira offers a built-in reporting feature, enabling users to generate reports effortlessly. Users can also utilize reporting apps and/or third-party business intelligence (BI) tools to create more advanced Jira reports, facilitating in-depth analysis of their business data.

The research, conducted by SmartBear, aims to identify the most recent benchmarks and gain valuable insights into the future direction of the API industry. The study examines the latest methodologies, practices, and tools software teams employ worldwide. The data was collected from a diverse group of over 1,100 API practitioners and customers representing various industries and companies of various sizes.

Jira was initially designed to facilitate asynchronous teamwork, and while that still holds to some extent, the landscape has evolved. Many are now reliant on Jira as a central hub for their operations. Consequently, when planning a vacation, it's essential to communicate your absence through Outlook or Slack and in Jira. This is where the Out Of Office app becomes invaluable.