Daria Spizheva_Reliex_ Atlassian Partner

Hi Community, If you've ever tried to get a Marketplace app approved by your security team, you know how long that questionnaire can take. So we wanted to share some news, and a bit of what we learned on the way. On October 27, 2026, ActivityTimeline for Jira Cloud received the Atlassian Enterprise Certified badge. As of…

A time tracker can do more than record hours. For teams that manage delivery in Jira, time data can also support sprint reporting, project budgets, resource planning, client billing, and financial forecasts. The right setup depends on how your team works. Some organizations need a dedicated tracker that supports billing…

Tempo Timesheets has long been one of the go-to time tracking apps for Jira, helping teams record worklogs, approve timesheets, and generate reports. However, not every organization needs the entire Tempo ecosystem—or the additional apps that often come with it. Fortunately, the Atlassian Marketplace offers several strong…

As a team grows, may want to compare estimates with actual effort, resource managers need to understand capacity, and finance teams need to see project costs and revenue while work is still underway. This is where the choice of time tracking setup matters. Some teams benefit from a dedicated tracker that works across…

If your team uses Jira to plan work, track progress, and report on projects, choosing a time-tracking app involves more than finding a convenient timer. You also need to decide where time entries should live, how they should connect to Jira issues, and what you want to do with the data afterward. Some teams need a simple…

Clockwork is HeroCoders' time tracking app for Jira Cloud, and it integrates seamlessly with Jira to make it easy to track time inside existing issue workflows. Its main idea is the automatic timer: when a work item has an assignee and moves into an "In Progress" status, a timer starts; when it is unassigned or moved out,…

Every time we fly back from Brazil, the same thought comes up somewhere over the Atlantic: "Okay, next time we stay longer." NEXP 2026 was no exception. From September 23 to 25, Nimble Evolution brought its community together at the Wyndham São Paulo Ibirapuera for the Nimble Evolution Experience, or NEXP for short. It was…

Real work doesn't live entirely inside issues. Native Jira Automation has no concept of a person's availability, a team's workload, or a timesheet. It can assign a ticket to a user, but it can't tell you that this user is already booked at 120% capacity through Friday. It can set a due date, but it can't reshuffle three…

Many Jira teams eventually face the same question: how do we see the financial side of our projects like cost, revenue, budget health without leaving Jira? Tempo Financial Manager (formerly Cost Tracker) is one of the best-known answers to that question, but it's not the only one, and different tools fit different team…

Choosing the right resource planning app for Jira isn't always straightforward. While Tempo Planner (Capacity Planner) is a popular option, many teams eventually need more automation, deeper reporting, or a different pricing model as their planning processes mature. Here are five alternatives worth considering, each with…

Every new hire goes through the same predictable arc: a week of documentation, a handful of "shadow this person" sessions, and then, almost overnight, an expectation that they're contributing. The problem is that knowing where the deploy pipeline lives or understanding the team's sprint cadence isn't the same thing…

Jira has become the operational hub for thousands of organizations. Product teams plan roadmaps, developers log work, and managers monitor delivery—all from a single platform. But when the conversation shifts from what's being delivered to what it's costing, many teams discover a gap. Jira tracks work exceptionally well,…

Jira is great at tracking work, but finance teams need answers to a different set of questions: How much have we spent on this project? Are we staying within budget? What revenue are we generating? Which teams or initiatives consume the most resources? Are we still profitable? Unfortunately, Jira wasn't built for financial…

Jira is excellent for managing projects, tasks, and team workloads. But when stakeholders ask a simple question — "How much is this project actually costing us?" — Jira has very few answers. While Jira tracks effort, it doesn't track money. Logged hours have no financial value attached to them, labor costs aren't…

Jira is one of the most widely used project management platforms, helping teams organize work, manage backlogs, and track delivery. But as organizations grow, many teams discover that planning work is only part of the challenge. Understanding who can actually do the work, when they can do it, and whether capacity exists…

Jira has no concept of money. There are no hourly rates, no cost calculations, no budget caps, and no alerts when spending goes off track. Logged hours stay hours; they never become dollars. For project managers who need real financial visibility, that gap is a real problem. What Jira Can (and Can't) Do Natively Jira does…

For countless teams around the globe, Jira sits at the heart of how work gets done. Yet anyone who's tried to get a coherent, multi-project view of team performance using only Jira's built-in tools knows the headache that follows. Native Jira reporting simply wasn't built to handle the complexity that comes with growth.…

Atlassian Team ’26 in Anaheim is officially wrapped — and for our ActivityTimeline team, it was one of the most intense, insightful, and energizing weeks of the year. From unconference discussions to partner sessions, hallway conversations, and nonstop booth activity, the event felt less like a conference and more like a…

Managing a project without reliable time data is a bit like steering without being able to see the road. You're moving, but you don't know if you'll arrive on time or run out of runway first. The consequences tend to show up in predictable ways: * You can't see who has capacity. Without visibility into logged hours,…

Finally, April is coming to an end and Atlassian Team ’26 is just around the corner. In a few weeks, the ActivityTimeline team will be landing in California and heading straight to the Expo Hall — ready for three days of real conversations about capacity, workload, and planning that actually works. You’ll find us at Booth…

Managing a team in Jira isn’t just about moving tickets across a board. True resource management is the process of planning, assigning, monitoring, and improving how your team’s time and skills are used across projects. Done well, it keeps work moving forward without exhausting your people. To make it work, focus on five…

Within many high-achieving organizations, a silent crisis is unfolding. While the workflow appears organized—utilizing Jira for task tracking, sprint scheduling, and deadline management—the reality is that work frequently falls behind. Deadlines are pushed back, some employees are perpetually burnt out while others lack…

Most managers believe they understand their team’s capacity—until a deadline slips or a budget overruns. Time tracking in Jira isn’t about micromanagement. It’s about visibility. When used properly, it helps you plan future work more accurately, monitor profitability, and distribute workload without burning out your team.…

If your Jira calendar looks the same across all tasks, it becomes harder to spot what really matters. When every issue appears identical, managers waste time double-checking priorities, scanning statuses, and manually filtering views. Over time, this slows decision-making and increases the risk of missed deadlines. Using…

For many product managers and engineering leads, time tracking never feels quite right. The tension usually comes from one core issue: most tools are great at documenting the past, but poor at helping you plan the future. Standalone time trackers built for consultants, like Toggl or Harvest, do a solid job of measuring…

Project management in 2026 is no longer about counting issues. It’s about managing capacity, risk, and delivery predictability across multiple teams at once. Default Jira dashboards were designed for visibility. They show what is happening. They don’t show whether what is happening is sustainable. When you manage several…

The timeline view in Jira helps by showing tasks, dates, and dependencies in one place. It gives you a clearer picture of how work is spread over time. But there’s still a gap between day-to-day task management and high-level planning. Jira has basic timeline features, but they’re often not enough for teams working across…

Jira collects everything: logged hours, assigned tasks, deadlines, and status updates. The challenge is not the lack of information but making sense of it. If your data cannot be grouped or categorized properly, important signals can easily go unnoticed. For example, one team might be overloaded while another has spare…

Standard Jira issues are highly customizable. You can add fields to capture almost any detail about scope, priority, or ownership. But when it comes to time tracking, Jira worklogs record how much time was spent and a short comment — nothing more. For many teams, that’s not enough. If you review timesheets at the end of…

Anyone who has worked on a multi-team Jira project knows this moment: a single issue slips, and suddenly half of the sprint plan starts to wobble. Nothing “broke” in Jira itself—all the links are still there—but the delivery plan quietly stops being realistic. This is the point where project dependencies stop being a…