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Your Jira has more custom fields than you think. And now there's a limit.
Quiz Time! Quick test: without looking, how many custom fields does your instance have? Many admins guess somewhere between 50 and 100. Then they open the admin screen and find 400. I've seen instances with tens of thousands (yes, you read that right). Nobody planned for that. It just happened, one reasonable request or…
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For the Jira Admins Quietly Living With Configuration Chaos
Admins, We See You If you've spent any time managing a Jira Cloud environment, you know the feeling. Configurations that made sense at the time, workflows that grew organically, custom fields that multiplied faster than anyone could track. Over time, complexity becomes the norm, and getting a clear picture of what's…
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Your Workflow Diagram Is Lying to You
The workflow complexity you can't see in the diagram When I worked at an Atlassian Partner, one of the most common gotchas I came across was the “simple workflow” problem. Take a typically simple workflow: five statuses, seven transitions, clean diagram. The kind of workflow you'd use as the poster-child for a "keep it…
