Discussions
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Halloween Is Over, but These 5 Jira Nightmares Are Still Haunting Us đź‘»
How was your Halloween? Spooky parties, scary costumes, and horror movies are behind us. Time to get back to work and leave all those frightening things behind, right? Well, not so fast! If you work with Jira, some nightmares might be waiting for you right at your desk. A mysterious deadline, a never-ending backlog, or a…
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Log Time in Jira and Find Out More About Your Personality
Could something as mundane as logging your work in Jira reveal a little about your personality? Let’s look at this everyday routine from a slightly different angle. Some people want to log their time and move on. Others like to see their day laid out in front of them. And some appreciate a little adventure along the way…
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More Accurate Jira Planning Starts with Real Team Availability
A task runs from Thursday to Tuesday. Is that six days of work or four? For a team working Monday through Friday, the answer is four. Yet this is exactly the kind of scheduling challenge Jira users face when their plans cannot properly account for working days, weekends, holidays, and individual availability. The impact…
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From Schedule Changes to Delivery Risks: Task Slack in Jira
Plans change. A supplier delivers later than expected, a key team member becomes unavailable, testing takes longer, or priorities shift. In a complex Jira project, even a small change can affect dependent tasks, resources, and ultimately the delivery date. The challenge is knowing which tasks have room to move and which…
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Working with Freelancers Who Don’t Use Jira? Share the Schedule, Not Jira Access
Have you ever worked with a freelancer who doesn’t have Jira access? Then you probably know the routine: manual updates, emails about shifting deadlines, and calls to walk through the latest changes. The freelancer may not need access to your entire Jira project. But they do need to know when their work is due, when…
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Project Management Keeps Evolving. Gantt Charts and Calendars Stay.
Project management has changed significantly over the years. Traditional sequential planning was joined by Agile, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid approaches, and now AI-supported workflows. Teams continue to adapt how they manage projects to their industries, goals, and ways of working. But underneath all these methodologies, the…
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How to Share Jira Project Schedules with Contractors and External Partners
Most enterprise projects don’t happen entirely inside one company. Your internal teams may manage their work in Jira, while freelance designers, video editors, consultants, agencies, customers, or other external collaborators work outside your Jira environment. They may not need Jira access at all. But they still need to…
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Being More Productive Doesn’t Always Mean Doing More: Try Visualizing Your Jira Work
When we talk about productivity, we often think about getting more done in less time. But sometimes, being more productive starts with something simpler: understanding where your time actually goes. That “quick” task may regularly take an hour. A few meetings can quietly fill half your afternoon. And all those small tasks?…
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How I Plan, Track, and Report My Work in Jira
I think most of us are already very familiar with calendar-based planning even if we’ve never actually called it that. You quickly add a colleague’s birthday so you don’t forget it. You put your kids’ swimming classes and other activities on the calendar so you can rush there as soon as office hours are over, in the…
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Beyond Dates: How Media Teams Use Company Calendar for Jira to Coordinate Work and Resources
It’s no secret that Jira has expanded far beyond its original use cases. Today, teams across industries rely on it to organize work, coordinate projects, and keep increasingly complex business processes moving. And it’s not hard to see why. Jira has changed the way companies approach work management, while continuously…
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Stop Searching. Start Planning with Gantt Suite Assistant
Powerful Jira apps often come with powerful capabilities. The challenge isn't that the features are missing, it's that discovering them can take time. You've probably experienced it yourself: "I know Gantt Suite can do this... but where do I find it?" That's why we introduced Gantt Suite Assistant — your built-in AI guide…
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A Better Way to Plan Jira Projects: Understand Dependencies Before You Build the Schedule
Summer is here - the season of vacations, road trips, and carefully planned getaways 🚗 But even the best trip can fall apart if you don’t check the route first. You pack the car, set the destination, and hit the road only to find a key bridge is closed. Project planning often works the same way. Teams build schedules and…
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From Plan to Delivery: Turning Jira Projects Into Realistic Schedules and Honest Metrics
Every project starts with a plan. And every project manager secretly hopes that everything goes according to it. Reality, of course, likes to keep things interesting. Gantt Suite for Jira helps you build a realistic project plan, align teams, manage dependencies, and keep delivery on track. Once execution begins, Time…
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Looking to connect with fellow Atlassian Marketplace vendors
Hi everyone! I'm Yana, the Marketing Manager at BrizoIT. I'm looking to connect with fellow Atlassian Marketplace vendors who might be interested in co-marketing opportunities. At BrizoIT, we develop Company Calendar, Work Time Calendar, One Calendar for Jira, and Gantt Suite for Jira. If your app complements planning,…
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How Automotive Manufacturers Use Company Calendar for Jira to Streamline Production Planning
Automotive manufacturing requires tight coordination across engineering, production, QA, suppliers, and equipment. With multiple programs running in parallel, clear visibility into schedules and resources is critical. Company Calendar for Jira centralizes production planning in a single calendar view, helping teams manage…
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Managing Projects in Jira? Create a Personalized Planning Experience with Gantt Suite
Thousands of teams rely on Jira every day. They plan projects, coordinate resources, manage dependencies, and deliver work across departments, industries, and time zones. Yet despite sharing the same platform, no two teams work exactly alike. With the latest Gantt Suite for Jira release, we're introducing Toolbar…
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đź“… Jira Standard Calendar vs Company Calendar for Jira
Jira's Standard Calendar provides a convenient way to visualize Jira issues on a calendar using the issue's Start Date and Due Date fields. This helps teams gain visibility into schedules, deadlines, and project timelines directly within Jira. As organizations grow, planning often extends beyond issue dates. Teams need to…
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Time Allocation Mode in Work Time Calendar for Jira
Managing team capacity can be challenging, especially when work is distributed across multiple projects, teams, and reporting periods. While Jira worklogs provide valuable data, turning that data into actionable workload insights often requires additional effort. Time Allocation mode in Work Time Calendar helps teams and…
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4 Ways to Visualize Your Jira Work Items with đź“… BrizoIT Calendars
Jira contains all the information teams need to manage their work, but the way that information is presented can significantly impact productivity. When work items are buried in issue lists and boards, it becomes harder to understand schedules, priorities, deadlines, and workload at a glance. That's why BrizoIT Calendars…
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Choosing the Right Jira Calendar: A Simple Way to Find Your Fit
You have all the data in Jira… but still can’t see your schedule clearly? At some point, most Jira users face the same challenge. Work is tracked, tasks are moving but getting a clear, time-based view of everything isn’t so straightforward. You might be trying to understand who is overloaded next week, or when a project is…
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New in Gantt Suite for Jira: Faster Planning with Inline Work Item Creation & Bulk Actions
Project planning in Jira often comes down to one thing: how quickly and clearly you can turn ideas into structured work. Opening dialogs, switching contexts, and filling out forms can slow down even the most experienced Jira users. With our latest update to Gantt Suite for Jira, we’re introducing two highly requested…
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How to Set Up a Shared Team Calendar in Jira Where Each User Sees Only Their Own Work
Managing work in Jira often means jumping between issues, worklogs, and personal notes just to understand what needs to be done. This becomes even more complex in teams, where visibility is shared but relevance is not. A more effective approach is to create one shared calendar that automatically adapts to each user,…
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Not all plans are public. Security Level Editing in Company Calendar and One Calendar for Jira
Not all plans are public. Some launches are confidential. Some spaces have access limitations. In highly regulated and enterprise environments, teams constantly manage sensitive initiatives — clinical studies, confidential product formulations, audit preparations, internal investigations, strategic launches. These…
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Work Is Scattered Across Tools?
Stop wasting time jumping between boards and apps to piece together the full picture. Meet One Calendar Macro for Confluence - Your Jira calendars, right where teams collaborate. One Calendar Macro is a free Confluence app that brings your Jira calendars directly into Confluence pages. It works as an extension of One…
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Planning Beyond People: What Really Limits Delivery?
The Atlassian ecosystem continues to expand, but are your planning tools keeping up with the real-world complexity of modern business? Today, planning is much more than just assigning tasks to people. What about shared equipment, production lines, labs, or environments? In manufacturing, even a single instance of double…
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Scheduling Jira issues based on shared resources
The latest Company Calendar update introduces support for customizable calendar resources in Jira. In addition to assignee-based planning, issues can now be scheduled and visualized based on shared resources. This approach is useful in scenarios where work is not primarily tied to people, but to equipment, rooms, or other…
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App Central Partner Feature: BrizoIT
BrizoIT is a trusted Atlassian Marketplace Partner building powerful Jira calendar and planning apps used by teams worldwide. From IT and engineering to healthcare and education, BrizoIT helps organizations visualize work, plan resources, and manage complex schedules inside Jira. In this conversation, founder and CEO…