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.

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 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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

While code review is vital in maintaining code quality, the modern agile environment demands more collaborative efforts within development teams. Peer code review alone is insufficient. It is necessary to establish clear coding standards and comprehensively understand user requirements to uncover potential bugs, even with code reviews. This eBook delves into the significance of code quality and its integration within collaborative development processes.

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.