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A tale of time zones and feature discovery in Jira
About a year ago, I wrote a feature for Jira during my 20% time that shipped in Jira 5.1. This feature notifies a user if their current time zone (as detected by their browser) doesn’t match the time zone they’ve set in their user preferences. Part of the reason I wrote the time zone detection […]
A guide to setting up business workflows using Jira Core
When we surveyed users in 2014, we discovered that roughly a third of our customers used Jira for non-software projects. But despite the diversity of the businesses, there was a common denominator to their Jira use: non-software teams needed workflows to track work. That’s why we created Jira Core.
5 Jira and Confluence plug-ins your HR team will love
Many Atlassian customers don’t realize there are loads of add-ons and integrations within our marketplace, including these 5 Jira plug-ins an HR department can use to create a unique, customized central system for their team and processes. Jira isn’t just for software teams, because all teams need to plan, track, and collaborate on projects. We built Jira Core to make Jira simpler for all business teams, and these add-ons help tailor the HR experience.
How to make Jira Core issues work for your business team
Jira Core can help any business team manage any project. That means projects like onboarding new employees, and launching marketing campaigns, and keeping track of legal document updates with workflows. And that’s not all. Since more information is still needed to help teams make decisions and progress toward next steps, Jira Core lets you customize items called issues to help any member of your team match the unique way your team works.
Inside Atlassian: designing software with the customer at heart
I decided to sit down with different Jira designers to learn how they reimagined Jira as Jira Software, Jira Core, and Jira Service desk from a design perspective. The stories were endless, but three things kept popping up in each designer’s story: design spikes, live data prototyping, and a stellar feedback collector.
Jira Core dashboard: your project status at a glance
The Jira Core dashboard provides you and your business teams with a comprehensive overview of your project status at a glance, including the tasks that need to be done, team members’ individual progress, and more. It’s just one of the many customization options you have in Jira Core to transform the way your business team works.
3 steps to marketing zen: how to visualize your workflow
Workflows provide a huge advantage to your marketing process and the success of your projects. As a visualization tool, workflows can help your marketing team come to consensus on the steps needed to complete tasks, anticipate or remove bottlenecks, and move much more quickly. Put simply, workflows give everyone a sense of ownership and accountability.
Inside Atlassian: Jira workflows for tracking blog projects
Chances are, your marketing team manages blog projects on spreadsheets. You probably track who is working on it, what state it’s in, when it’s going to be published, what it’s about, how it fits into larger marketing campaigns… And that’s just the stuff you’re concerned with before it’s published. It’ll come as no surprise that Atlassian’s marketing team uses Jira Core, Confluence, and Hipchat to keep our blogs running smoothly. So today I’m going to get all meta with a blog about how we use Jira Core, including some example workflows, to track our blogs.
5 Jira, Confluence, and Hipchat integrations to power your marketing team
As marketing becomes a more technical discipline, it’s imperative to find tools that streamline processes, help teams communicate, and enhance work transparency. With these 5 integrations and add-ons for Jira, Confluence, and Hipchat (not to mention hundreds more in the Atlassian Marketplace), marketers can get tremendous ROI from their marketing technology stack.
A marketing workflow example: Jira for multi-team collaboration
Jira is at the center of Aeria Games’ work processes. All departments use it, even though the level of adoption is quite different. Read on to learn about how Aeria Games’ marketing team built a marketing workflow to reduce process complexity when collaborating with other teams in other departments.
7 imaginative ways business teams can track work in Jira Core
We built Jira Core because we realized business and back-office teams could benefit from Jira in the same ways software teams do. Jira Core extends the workflow functionality and customizability of Jira to business teams so they can track work, manage projects, and stay on top of everything. Jira Core lets business teams define their processes, break down and track issues, and organize work. Issues in Jira Core can represent all kinds of things: a task, a document… even a person. Just about anything you want to track can be an issue. Read on to see more of the many examples!
Learn how Indeed’s HR processes are tracked using Jira
Indeed decided to extend their use of Jira to the HR team (and other teams), and they adopted the Jira best practices of their software teams to help their other teams get work done as efficiently as possible. Register for the webinar to learn more about Indeed, and how to implement Jira Core for your business teams.
How advertising agencies use Jira for business development
People at Helios Interactive realized Jira could be used for all sorts of different use cases throughout the agency. The more Jira spread, the more teams wanted to use it. Now, after just two years, nearly the entire agency uses Jira for projects that range from business development to invoice tracking, and it has become a critical part of their business. For business development, Helios uses Jira to track the entire client pipeline, from the first meeting to the last. Ben McChesney, Managing Partner and CTO, started it all by using Jira to manage development projects. We asked Ben to talk about how Helios uses Jira for business development.
Marketing project management with Jira Core
[cta] Marketing departments are made up of various teams: email, content, PR, product, etc. Though each is charged with different tasks, they all have something in common: they must manage projects and deliver work on time. How do most marketing teams do this? They follow the progress of projects and make sure work is delivered on time using scary-complicated spreadsheets, and sharing […]
How Jira Core makes me a less grumpy social media marketer
As a Content Marketing Manager, I deal with words all day long. I’m always writing, editing, reading, or posting on social media in the name of Atlassian’s Jira products including Jira Coreand Jira Service Desk. When it comes to social media, the details are key. Every word, every character, and every image counts toward building […]