Discussions
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Is Agile and Scrum applicable outside of software?
Is Agile older than the Internet? Software development anthropologist Gerald Weinberg, the author of The Psychology of Computer Programming and Introduction to General Systems Thinking, remembered introducing incremental development for the first time in 1957 in Los Angeles at IBM. Evolutionary and adaptive approaches…
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How to create an Epic issue template in Jira
Issue creation is one of the basic actions you can make in Jira. People usually spend a big chunk of their working time in this software, especially if they have to recreate the same Epic over and over again. Here's the detailed guide on how to avoid repeating this task with Issue Templates for Jira Cloud and Server -…
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How to scale Agile marketing with Jira Software and Structure PPM
This is an excerpt from a speech I delivered at the Jira Day 2023 conference in Krakow, Poland. Read the story of Agile marketing implementation at Deviniti for more historical context. --- Within 3 years, we grew as a marketing department and matured our project management approach. Here we are - double the size, with a…
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Chasing Agile: Deviniti Marketing’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
This is an excerpt from a speech I delivered at the Jira Day 2022 conference in Warsaw, Poland. --- I’d like to tell you a story of the team I helped build and still belong to. Its title refers to a book by former NFL player Leland Melvin, who became a NASA astronaut despite his injury during his football career. I found…
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How to ace DevOps in Jira: a case study from the finance industry
A leader in the financial services sector, Santander Bank Polska S.A. (formerly Bank Zachodni WBK), is one of our oldest clients. We have been supporting the bank in projects focusing on custom software development and services related to the Atlassian suite of products since 2008. Back then, Deviniti was the only…
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5 reasons your project needs software requirements documentation
Agile Manifesto’s fourth principle values the ability to respond to change over following a plan. But it doesn’t mean you can give up on any planning whatsoever and simply go with the flow. Instead, you need to ensure you have consistent requirements for your project gathered in one place, documented, structured and taken…
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InTENSO changes its name to Deviniti!
From March 14th 2018 onwards, InTENSO provides its services and products under a new name: Deviniti. Why did we change our name? Our organization needed a brand name that was consistent with our vision for the future. With global challenges ahead, we wanted to offer our products and expertise under a name that would…
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A simple guide to set up Dynamic Forms in Jira Service Desk
When it comes to raising a service desk request, time and details count. However, users value the simplicity of the request forms, which they don’t always get. Especially when it comes to issues that require in-depth details, “simple” isn’t the word that describes the form. Such requests usually mean plenty of ‘important’…
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Have you missed Jira Day by Deviniti?
The largest Atlassian-related conference in Central Europe is back! Let's meet on September 7-8, 2022 during Jira Day! After two years of remote meetings, we can finally see each other offline in Warsaw, Poland. Two days, over 60 sessions – the 10th edition of the event is around the corner. We launched Jira Day for the…
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Have you missed Jira Day by Deviniti?
The largest Atlassian-related conference in Central Europe is back! Let's meet on September 7-8, 2022 during Jira Day! After two years of remote meetings, we can finally see each other offline in Warsaw, Poland. Two days, over 60 sessions – the 10th edition of the event is around the corner. We launched Jira Day for the…
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How and where you can display Active Directory user attributes in Jira
Working in a big company, it can be hard to find a particular person – or even to figure out who to reach out for in the first place. In such companies, user data is usually stored in Active Directory (or on some other kind of LDAP server) and is managed by a dedicated admin. But when you also use Atlassian Jira for…
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Requirements management: 6 best practices
Even if you launch your project with a complete set of requirements, expect changes to crop up once the project is up and running. Depending on which project management model you choose, adding, modifying, or removing requirements after you start can be quite costly and time-consuming. That’s why you need a continuous…
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Team building activities: Atlassian Team Playbook review
This is a guest post by Radosław Wyrzykowski – an experienced Business Trainer and Consultant who helps effectively maximize performance through communication and cooperation. He’s a power user of Atlassian solutions for efficient teamwork including Team Playbook, Trello, and Confluence. Loves analyzing, improving, taking…
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Dogfooding: how Deviniti tests with its test management apps
– Dogfooding is a great way to get people to walk a little way in the user’s shoes. Source Dogfooding comes from the phrase first used in 1988 by a Microsoft manager Paul Maritz who wanted to improve a product and emailed his colleague the following message: “We are going to have to eat our own dogfood and test the product…
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How to speed up Jira performance with bundled custom fields
Working with Jira Software Server issues or Jira Service Desk Server requests, often there is a situation when you need to provide small chunks of information as parts of a greater whole. Then you have to create a massive amount of custom fields to store this information and keep it structured, which can slow down the…
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Agile practices in teams and companies outside IT and software industries
Hi everyone! I'm doing some research for a piece of content that we're creating at Deviniti, and I have a question to the Atlassian Community :) Have you ever come across adopting some kind of Agile project management practices in teams and companies outside the IT and software industry? In which cases is it a good or a…
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How we built a mobile-first Jira app using the 80/20 rule
This article was written by Jarosław Morawski - Deviniti UX Designer and Product Owner. Searching for issues in Jira can be a burden if you are not a JQL expert or don’t have too much time on your hands. During an internal hackathon at Deviniti, our Atlassian Cloud development team set out to create Context Issues, an app…
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How to merge Atlassian software instances: a customer case
This article was written by Piotr Mazij - an Atlassian Expert and Trainer at Deviniti. Do you know how many instances teams use at your company? You can benefit a lot from integrating them by implementing a unified stream of activity, connecting your reporting panels, and facilitating links between projects. However,…
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Jira Day 2020 Remote Edition highlights, pt. 2: teams and tools
In the first part of the article, I wrote about answering the new world's needs and optimizing the processes. Now let's see how we can connect the teams and master the tools in the new reality. Connecting the teams That was about the customers. And what about the teams? As we should start with people and practices,…
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Jira Day 2020 Remote Edition highlights, pt. 1: needs and processes
What a week it was! While NASA and SpaceX were preparing the Dragon Crew flight to the International Space Station, we broadcast Jira Day 2020 Remote Edition to the whole universe. For the former, this was the first-ever commercial space flight, for us - our first-ever fully remote event. Coincidentally, both were a huge…
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4 little tricks to enhance Jira workflow with LDAP data
Every company looks for ways to improve their workflow and avoid any delays. Especially big corporations where is so many people that it’s easier to manage the most complex management tool than to remember everyone’s names. However, a great workflow without bottlenecks is often created by implementing small, but…
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Deviniti + Tempo webinar: How to save and track working time with Jira Software
Hi everyone! I'd like to invite you to a webinar which me and @Maxime Nie [Tempo] will host on August 28th on behalf of Deviniti and Tempo. How much time at work is actually spent working? This question has always drilled the minds of entrepreneurs and managers. Nowadays, when more and more jobs require a computer and…
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Webinar: Investigate requirements and manage software tests right inside your Jira
Hi everyone! I'd like to invite you to a webinar which I will host on July 31st on behalf of Deviniti. Software testing is a complex process which consists of multiple phases and involves many people: analysts, testers, developers, managers, etc. Each phase is often executed in a separate tool, which tends not to meet the…
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7 reasons why use of Jira can be frustrating, part 2
This is the second part of the article about most common reasons why Jira can be frustrating for its users. In the first part, I tried to deal with complexity of the software and its application for project management. Now let's turn to the tool's interface and overall usability. 4. Jira is lacking features The other…
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What was going on at Jira Day 2019? Pt. 2
This is the second part of the article about Jira Day 2019 - the largest Atlassian-related conference in Central and Eastern Europe. Read the first part to learn why did Atlassian Feico Mol leave the stage during the opening keynote and how to avoid too high downtime costs. Atlassian Senior Quality Engineer Michał…
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What was going on at Jira Day 2019? Pt. 1
Over the last 5 years, we at Deviniti have organized over 20 events related to Atlassian products. Jira Day is the biggest of them, and it’s the largest conference of that type in Central and Eastern Europe. Well, some even claim it the largest non-Atlassian-owned event in the world! However, each year Jira Day is truly…
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Why People Use And Love Issue Templates for Jira
How does your team create Jira issues? Aren't they sick of scrolling through the same fields and typing in the same data over and over again? Have they ever made mistakes when throwing in tickets in a hurry? Facing a large and increasing number of tasks, teams are often inclined to come up with blueprints for their…
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Atlassian Summit 2019: the news report by Deviniti, part 2 - Marketplace Apps news
In the first part of this article, I've reported on the most important Atlassian product news from the Summit 2019 in Las Vegas. In this second part, I'll focus on the changes that happened to the Atlassian Marketplace and share some news about the apps. Atlassian Marketplace apps Many Summit talks and workshops, along…
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Atlassian Summit 2019: the news report by Deviniti, part 1 - Product news
This year's Atlassian Summit was fun as usual, with Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes dressed as Elvises and Dom Price singing Jira Las Vegas in front of 5000 people party at the Mandalay Bay beach. Most of the crowd represented the biggest giants of American business craving to know what's new in the software their…