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Top 6 Trending Jira Apps for everyday use in 2022
Looking for a way to enhance your teamwork in Jira? No matter if you’re new here or an experienced user, there is always room for improvement. Thanks to Jira's flexibility, you can always find tools that will be handy for your specific case. Jira plugins offer a wide range of productivity and management boosters, including…
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How to monitor team performance?
There are tasks with lots of points, and each of these points should be completed to bring some result. You can create a task for each item, but this is a very long process that is difficult to track. Why? Because there is no such built-in Jira functionality. Creating recurring automated tasks takes lots of time, so it’s…
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Time management with Jira Time in Status: 7 ways to be more efficient
Time management includes setting priorities, avoiding distractions, managing deadlines, and juggling professional and personal obligations. According to statistics, organizing your day for 10 to 12 minutes can help you save up to 2 hours. You may think, “10 minutes. What are 10 minutes in compared to the 8 hours of the…
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How to Use Forms for Pre–Onboarding Check?
When you welcome a new hire to your company, you, as a manager, have lots of things to do to onboard a new employee. It’s such a pity when he/she leaves on the first day, week, or month. To help you maximize employee retention at your company, we’ll dwell on the pre-onboarding check and how to organize it with the help of…
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How to organize Jira Document Management Workflow?
How much time do your employees spend looking for specific information? Document management is one of the most time-consuming processes. You can lose up to 21,3% of productivity while organizing your docs. That’s why it’s crucial to decide what tools you’re going to use. Jira workflow is a highly flexible tool to build…
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Jira Recurring Tasks: Create and Repeat automatically
According to our usage statistics, Recurring Checklists and Report add-on has become one of our most useful tools since its launch. 88% of users in a recent Recurring Checklists and Report survey said the feature helps them be more productive. And it's understandable why: including tasks in your workflows makes getting…
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How to Standardize Processes in Jira?
If you want to ensure quality, promote productivity, improve employee morale, and provide better customer service in your company, you should undeniably standardize basic processes. How? In this article, I’ll share with you some insights on process standardization with the help of Jira. What is business process…
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3 Ways to Identify Bottlenecks in your Jira workflow process
Have you already examined the outcomes of your team's 2022 activities? Almost every manager faces a critical question: Has the essential indicator growth been adequately controlled throughout the reporting period? It's crucial to determine how much money is spent to get these results. Jira is a robust project management…
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How to empower Jira Automation?
Less effort → less time → less lost money. That’s what every business desires, and that’s why automation is so popular. It really can make a difference when your workflow is stuck with manual, repetitive processes. Jira Automation isn’t some magical spell, it is not so simple to make it work. You’ll need some practice to…
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How to set a Jira approval workflow for vacation requests?
Can you imagine your life without a vacation? When it comes to approving your holiday, it can be really bothersome to remind your managers of it. Of course, it's difficult to monitor such requests manually and respond to them on time. Let's try to set Jira approval workflow in a way not to repeat these actions every time…
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How to get the average time spent with Jira gadgets?
Have you ever thought, how long does it take your team, on average, to complete the project? Or how long does it typically take an assignee to solve a Jira task? It’s a widespread problem when some bottlenecks or delays in the workflow process occur. So, monitoring how long each team member takes to complete the Jira issue…
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How to use checklists in the marketing team? [Use Case]
This is a use case for Forms for Jira Service Management. These examples are shared here on Community as part of a series we're producing to show how teams use Forms to provide quick service. Please click here to view all use cases that have already been published. Before using the add-on, we have used Google Sheets for…
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Jira checklist: add-ons review [2022]
Aproximately 5 hours per day or 219 hours per year – that’s how much employees spend on recurring tasks while working. Can you imagine how much money are lost because of manual work that can be automated? Jira and Atlassian marketplace are places where you can achieve such automation with some appropriate tools. Recurring…
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Jira Workflow Approval Process. How to Speed Up?
Decisions take the time that you may not always have, especially when they depend upon multiple people. But automation of the Jira approval workflow may become a game-changer in your overall workflow, boosting efficiency, improving communication, and decreasing the timing of the decision-making process at your…
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How to get Cycle time for Jira tasks in Qlik?
Are you looking for the ability to integrate your Jira data (time-spent or status reports, etc.) into third-party analytical systems (such as Power BI or Qlik)? If so, we have prepared an article where you’ll discover how to share your Cycle time report (or you can create any other you need) with colleagues and export it…
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How to use workflow management Jira?
If you are a manager, then you should definitely be sure that everything goes in the right order and tasks are done as planned. How about using some automation? It can not only save your time but also make the process of task fulfillment easier for both sides − managers and employees. According to a recent survey, almost…
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How to get Cycle and Lead time for Jira in Power BI?
Lots of requests have been in the community on how to integrate Jira data (status reports, time-spent reports, etc) into third-party analytical systems (such as Power BI). If you are interested in discovering such info, this article exactly fits your needs. It describes how to share your Cycle time report (or you can…
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3 ways to get Status Entrance Date in Jira
Community members often search for the answer to a question: How can I get Jira status changes date? Let’s try to figure out: * Why is it so popular? * How can it help managers and teams? * Is it possible with JQL? * What options can you try? The value of getting the Status Entrance Date for managers If you’re managing…
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How to Use Checklists to Simplify Jira Workflow
Well, if you’re reading this article, I assume your workflow is not as smooth and agile as expected. And one of the reasons may lie in the recurring processes that your team does on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. So, what’s wrong with them? If you ever faced the problem of missing tasks (I mean the situation when your team…
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How to improve Jira task management?
The average employee is interrupted every three minutes. It takes some time to focus on the task again. It’s not strange that you may forget about some items on your to-do list. It happens sometimes. But what if you miss some important step in your work process? It can lead to postponed workflow and lost profits. Blaming…
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Top 5 Jira reports every manager needs
Is there a way to see where your project or business is in a quarter or in a year? Most of you will agree that it’s possible to plan the future only if you know how everything is going today. Reliable and up-to-date data is the first thing every manager needs; analysis is the second one. Reports are links between those two…
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5 Reasons Why You Should Use Checklist
Are you already using checklists to organize your tasks and improve the productivity of your team? You’ve probably heard of the effectiveness of checklists for time-management, task prioritizing, and ensuring you don’t skip any essential step, whether of your daily routine or project. If you still hesitate about how…
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Checklist. Security requirements [use case]
Have you ever faced any difficulties while working with security requirements in Jira? It’s not always easy to be aware of all aspects of security. To simplify this process for your company, consider two aspects below: * check whether the product you are working with meets the requirements * regularly track it with your…
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How to improve Jira log work discipline?
If your organization work in Jira and management requires time management log reports from all employees, then you probably have seen how hard it is to build this straightforward process. It seems quite easy: if you work on some issue, please log your time. However, every manager who has ever been responsible for such…
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How to Deal with Jira recurring tasks?
Remember your job interview when the recruiter has asked you to describe your dream job. Did your description involve something like monotonous day-to-day manual tasks? I bet it didn’t. However, almost every job position, especially the role of a manager, do has many similar tasks that have to be done regularly. Though…
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Simple way to automatically add checklists to your Jira workflow
Do you like monotonous and repetitive tasks? The truth is that almost nobody likes. But it’s not just about our preferences, but the impact they have on our overall performance and results. Many managers have dozens of such tasks weekly. But why are we even speaking about recurring issues at the workplace if it is such a…
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3 steps to automate work routine in Jira Cloud
How often do you forget about some of your tasks? Most managers usually face the problem of multi-tasking. Cause it’s hard to keep in mind all issues. So, you forget to do something - which may cause bottlenecks in the working process and leads to cost losses. Creating a description of a task, choosing an assignee, and…