Urszula Kaczorek Atlassian Partner

Struggling to estimate and log time accurately in Jira? You're not alone. Many teams face similar challenges — especially in fast-paced Agile environments. By following Jira time tracking best practices, you can take control of your team’s productivity, make smarter estimations, and get more value out of your time tracking…

Atlassian offers many tools for successful project management. In the third part of our tutorial, we showed you the most popular of them – Jira. But in many projects, especially for non-profit organizations, there is another software product that is used almost as often. If not even more. We are talking about Confluence,…

This is the first part of our tutorial series presenting how Atlassian products could be used by non-profits organizations from all around the world. We want to show you in a very simple and easy way, how can you improve the work of your organization. Thanks to good tools for managing projects NGOs can increase their…

Gaining insight into your team’s effectiveness and choosing the right estimation technique. Estimating projects is hard. It is because people have the tendency to underestimate the time things take, especially in professional terms. It may be the result of the so-called over-optimism, but equally often it happens due to…

Logging your time in Jira doesn’t have to be a hassle. In this article, we’ll show you how to log your entries with a Jira timetracker, Worklogs - Time Tracking and Time Reports, and walk you through the process step by step. If you're looking for a simple way to stay on top of your work hours, this guide is for you. Log…

Why do more and more teams choose a more ‘traditional’ tool for managing tasks? We all admit it: project management and task tracking sometimes can be overwhelming. But the good news is that at some point in the past someone came up with the idea of project management tools. And their aim is to make our lives easier. In…

Understanding how time is spent in your organization is key to improving productivity, managing budgets, and making informed decisions. In Jira, users can log time directly on work items, which opens the door to analyzing this data through Jira time reports – either using built-in options or third-party tools that offer…

Used together with Jira Service Desk, Multiple Checklists can improve your service team’s productivity and help provide better services to your customers. Who do the customers contact first in case they have problems with the IT service they are using? A service desk of course! It is the major contact point between the…

A lot has been said about the differences between the two project management tools: Trello and Jira. Many comparisons have been made to prove one tool’s superiority over the other or – on the contrary – to show distinctions that make each tool more or less useful in various use cases. Surely, Trello allows teams to…

The article is inspired the Agile is Human tutorial by Olivier Denoo Since the beginning of IT development and up until now, stakeholders in IT projects have been complaining that the outcome products contain too many bugs, are not user-friendly or that they do not match business needs. The other commonly-raised issue is…

While you start using Jira, you will quickly start noticing the words like “Agile” or “SCRUM”. But do you have to know by heart all of the methodologies and have all the needed certificates to work with this software? Absolutely not. We recommend reading the Scrum guide to see with your own eyes that this isn’t something…

Along with adopting the Agile methodology, there come some principles that Agile methodology is using. They were established, not to be avoided or ignored as someone can think. Using these rules is a desirable practice and guarantees success in the project. This seems to be something easy to introduce into your everyday…

In this part of our series of tutorials for non-profits, we want to look at one of the most important parts of using JIRA – how to write tasks and tickets for your coworkers. Project management software can only take us so far. Create the environment, when everyone can see what tasks what they have to do. Make…

Are you part of the open-source community? Do you want to use the time of your volunteers better and more efficiently? Use the same tool, that developers from the biggest companies in the world. Learn, how to get a free open-source license for Atlassian software. Method for acquiring the license for the Open Source…

We all know and love Wikipedia. This is not only one of the best ways to check your information. This is also now one of the most popular formats for knowledge sharing on the internet. And not without reason. You can find the information you need very fast and almost intuitively. Just check the table of contents and find…

How to identify blockers slowing down your teamwork? All projects need clear priorities. Workflow management is surely one of the most challenging parts of running any company. Prioritizing the work that matters is what project managers and leaders face every day, not always successfully. When team members struggle with…

Atlassian software is great software if you want to change the way you approach the topic of project management and make you work more efficient and professional. If non-profit organizations want to promote their mission the best way possible, they should use the same tools in their operations, as the biggest corporations.…

The first days with new software, that you are going to use every day from now one can be really scary. There are so many options to choose from, settings to change, things to click. Sometimes, when you’ll acquire some bad habits from the start, changing the way you work in the future will be incredibly difficult. There…

Hello Atlassian Community Fellows! I have some articles to publish on Atlassian Community which can be helpful for Non-Government Organizations, and they all refer to Jira, Jira Software, Jira products, etc. They do not mention our products at all. They are some kind of knowledge-base, or instructions. Which one of the…

Is your team performing disappointingly? Is your inbox stuffed with emails and your workday packed with unproductive meetings? Is time spent together at work not always time spent getting work done? Good time management helps make tasks more organized and finish them in a timely and more productive manner. It not only…

Hello everyone! Is there any possibility to add an estimation to already created ticket/ issue in Jira? For now, I'm returning to the old view and then can make changes in settings, but what if the old view won't be available anymore? Thanks for every advice!

As in the title: What feature you would like to add? Maybe you would like to improve an existing one? Regards, Ula.

Hello, I was wondering if there is possible to MOVE to Atlassian in easy way sites, that we created on G-Sites? They are mostly technical instructions for our employees. We have a lot of content there, images and tabs, so it would take much time to rewrite all information to Atlassian site.