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Hello everyone! We've already talked to you about Email&Tasks: Jira Cloud for Gmail, which can convert your emails into Jira tasks in just two clicks. So, let's discuss the latest news and what else we can do for you. Also, we'll share with you a life hack for organizing created tasks via emails. How not to lose them in…

Organizing the work of remote teams is a difficult task. And controlling teams and making quality reports is not a challenge for everyone. Okay, you have Jira, Confluence, Google Meet, Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, and many other tools. The team is scattered all over the world. For example, some of us work in European…

Effective project cost tracking is a crucial element in project management, as it enables project managers to keep up-to-date with the financial situation of their projects. Overspending and delayed decisions on cost reduction are among the critical reasons for the failure of IT projects. Statistics show us: * according to…

Some sources report that software quality issues may have cost the U.S. economy $2.41 trillion in 2022. Wow. The amount is impressive. Software quality is something that every development company fights for. The user evaluates it all and votes. They vote with their wallet and trust. Therefore, it cannot be neglected. Have…

My headache is always caused by an overflowing email. You come to work, open your inbox and see a small icon with a number; sometimes, it can be a three-digit number overnight. It makes me sad. Instead of doing what you need to do, you try to sort through this digital dump of information. So, how to organize your workspace…

Time is a primary component of how to measure team effectiveness. If your organization runs Scrum, the velocity formula includes a time frame. If Kanban, then it's again about the speed during some period. SLA management, it's again about time. Managers should organize the process to have data on how their teams perform.…

Onboarding new employees can be a daunting process for any organization. It involves a lot of coordination and communication between different teams and departments, making it easy for things to fall through the cracks. Imagine that you have onboarded a new employee, and now you should track his efficiency during the…

If your company provides the service to other organizations, you could have faced the issue with accurate reporting. Clients want transparency in all projects. Simultaneously, your projects differ in size, approach, involved people, duration and budget. Suppose your business model is based on the number of hours allocated,…

Our Cost Tracker for Jira Cloud add-on works in symbiosis with time-tracking applications. Simply put, the user registers the time spent on a task, and then it's Cost Tracker's job to manage it. You can generate reports based on workflows, calculate labor costs, and more. There are many time-tracking applications. The main…

Big projects require transparency at every moment of their execution. If you are Project Manager and work on a project requiring EVM management, you might know how challenging it is to get accurate data from Jira to build the EVM report. We want to change it. The Time & Cost Tracker for Jira user-friendly functionality…

If you use a JSM project, you definitely have a high volume of customer queries, the particular workflow, responsibility matrix and SLAs. The SLA is the core KPI that JSM suggests utilizing to measure the effectiveness of the customer success team. It is fine since "green" SLAs reports show that the team is doing well, and…

Email&Tasks: Jira Cloud for Gmail is a suite of three add-ons (Atlassian Marketplace, Google Workspace Marketplace connector for Gmail, and Chrome browser extension). The add-on is designed to optimize task management processes, such as quick access to tasks and any operations with them, as well as detecting tasks in…

Jira Cloud is a popular project management tool used by teams worldwide. However, keeping track of the costs associated with different project versions can be challenging. That's where the Cost Tracker app comes in, offering a simple and efficient way to calculate costs in Jira Cloud. In this article, we'll use the Cost…

By a show of hands, who has ever thought that it would be nice to create tasks directly from their emails? Instead of jumping from your inbox to Jira, you can convert directly from Gmail. We remind you that this is possible with Email&Tasks: Jira Cloud for Gmail 👍. We want to share an example of how this application will…

All marketers, no matter how involved they are in creative processes, are always concerned with two things: the percentage of completed conversions and profit. No matter how you slice it when you work with the market, whether e-commerce, SaaS, or services, you always look at everything through the prism of numbers. A…

💸 How much do your projects in Jira cost? Managers, stakeholders – everyone wants to keep the finger on the pulse and make some adjustments if needed. If you hear that question often, it’s time to find the most convenient way to track your budget. As Jira has no natively-built option to calculate issues/projects’ costs,…

The Time Between Statuses add-on is a powerful tool that can greatly enhance your Jira workflow process. This add-on allows you to track the amount of Jira time spent in status, providing valuable insights into your team's performance and identifying potential bottlenecks in your Jira workflow. How can tracking time…

Good email management is not a simple task. Of course, you can use labels for superficial sorting. But if you're the kind of person who has 100 new emails in their inbox every morning, you need to look for a better solution. There are several options: * or not to be a perfectionist and ignore the chaos in your inbox in the…

Most organizations run Scrum. People become aware of how to work in a sprint setup, so it becomes the standard, especially for the IT sphere. Based on the Scrum framework, the team should monitor its velocity and keep it high and predictable. There are great reports to monitor sprint results in Jira. Even more, anyone can…

Remember your first encounter with Jira. Excited, nervous, and feeling like you're about to press something wrong and everything will disappear 😂. Also, remember how you first got acquainted with JQL. For a non-technical person, it was like higher math multiplied by physics. Even the easiest combinations seemed so…

In the rhythm of modern life, we cannot keep up with the flow of information. We are always in a hurry. Living inside the tornado of messages, new technologies, releases, news, we began to forget more. The brain cannot keep everything in itself and discards the excess. How many of your great ideas never came to fruition?…

You could have heard from your managers that meetings are expensive, so the team should avoid unnecessary meetings. The experts suggest many techniques to minimize this meeting price. The suggestions are indeed very clever: * Plan and share agenda with attendees; * Involve only essential people; * Don’t be late, be short,…

The longer your company uses Jira Cloud, the more likely your processes are connected to its workflow. For software development, Jira provides company and team-managed projects. With Scrum and Kanban, Jira became a powerful tool for running development cycles. For customer success, you might use the JSM. For non-delivery…

Have you ever thought about how much a separate task in certain project costs? Is it important? Definitely. Projects should always be considered holistically, breaking them down into molecules and analyzing the execution process. In the same way, it is necessary to estimate the cost of the tasks so that in the future, it…

Project planning is always about time, scope and finance. Jira is a handy tool for working with the first element: estimation in time and story points, Agile reports, Scrum and Kanban boards with flexible settings, etc. So, everything related to project planning and process tracking can be done in Jira using default…

Have you heard about "Email&Tasks: Jira Cloud for Gmail"? In the previous article, we told you about the release of our application "Email&Tasks: Jira Cloud for Gmail", which helps to convert your emails into Jira issues in 1-click. Many users have already evaluated its performance and are actively using its advantages. It…