Discussions
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Four teams, four estimation units, one dashboard color, how do you handle this?
This pattern keeps coming back in larger organizations, and I'd like to know how the admins here handle it. The example is not mine. I picked it up from a discussion on r/agile, where a commenter with 25 years in banking described the same pattern across five organizations. Team A estimates in story points. Team B in…
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New Community Champion saying hello from Austria and Greece!
Hi everyone! I'm Maria, and I just joined the Atlassian Community Champions program. I came to the Atlassian ecosystem from law, not from IT. Today I'm co-founder of MetaFrazo, and Jira and Confluence are part of my everyday work. What fascinates me most is what all that activity in Jira actually tells you about how teams…
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The Custom Field Zoo: when nobody remembers why a field exists
The Custom Field Zoo: when nobody remembers why a field exists Jira's flexibility is the reason most of us adopted it. A new requirement appears, a new custom field is created, work continues. At team level, that is exactly how it should work. The trouble starts years later, at platform level: hundreds of fields, unclear…
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What You Can Script, and What You Have to Have Recorded
There is a question no amount of scripting can answer, and it is worth knowing which one it is before someone asks you. Picture a Jira admin on a Tuesday. Someone from the risk side of the house comes over with what sounds like a reasonable request: how long did approvals actually take last quarter, before we changed the…
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Your dashboards reward speed. A skipped review looks exactly like speed.
Your dashboards reward speed. A skipped review looks exactly like speed. A quick disclosure before I start: I'm a co-founder of MetaFrazo, an app on the Atlassian Marketplace, and the last part of this post describes how we surface this pattern in our product. Everything before that is a governance problem any Jira admin…
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Exploring AI Generated Jira Automation: What It Can Do Today and Where Human Expertise Still Matters
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming part of everyday work in Jira. With Atlassian's recent AI capabilities, including the ability to generate Jira automation rules from natural language, creating automation has become far more accessible than it used to be. Instead of manually assembling triggers, conditions and…
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Your Jira configuration doesn’t stay correct. It drifts.
Why Status Category Drift is one of the most overlooked governance problems in Jira In our previous article, we showed how every Jira administrator can manually audit their Status Category mappings in about 15 minutes. It is a worthwhile exercise because it quickly reveals inconsistencies that often remain hidden for…
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How to audit your Status Category mappings
This comes up indirectly in many reporting discussions. Dashboards, sprint reports, cumulative flow diagrams, or control charts that "look wrong" often turn out to have one common cause: Status Category mappings that no longer reflect how work actually flows. Many of Jira's built-in reports and board calculations rely on…
