Laura Marin - Millarum Atlassian Partner

Every product bay mounts a 65-inch TV on the wall with the best intentions: "Let’s project our Jira board so everyone stays aligned." Within 48 hours, it turns into expensive digital wallpaper. Viewed from ten feet away, standard Jira boards look like giant, muted spreadsheets. Nobody reads 12-point summaries from across…

Every product manager, business analyst, and engineering lead knows the routine: * The PM drafts a comprehensive Product Requirements Document (PRD) in Confluence, Notion, or Google Docs. * Stakeholders review, comment, and give their formal sign-off. * The specification is broken down into Epics, Stories, and Tasks in…

For years, Jira admins and project leads shared a common headache: performing simple math between fields on an issue required building complex Automation rules, scripting custom listeners, or relying on heavy maintenance overhead. One broken rule meant overridden values, incorrect field syncs, and endless troubleshooting.…

Every engineering manager and delivery lead relies on Jira reporting to answer a fundamental question: Is our work moving forward predictably? You open a standard Jira dashboard widget, a pie chart, a two-dimensional filter statistic, or a status distribution bar. You see a clean breakdown of where your tickets sit today.…

For modern engineering teams running microservices or multi-platform apps, delivery is rarely isolated to a single repository. A single user-facing feature might require: * Java * Python * PHP * Others The challenge? Jira’s native Fix Version model is designed around single-project scopes. When you have multiple tech…

Every Jira admin and agile coach preaches the same rule: Jira is a workflow engine, not a file management system. In an ideal world, Jira issues handle task execution, and files are stored cleanly in external cloud drives. But in the real world? Teams upload compliance documents, signed contracts, purchase orders, and…

Full disclosure: I’m part of the team behind the tool mentioned below. With Appfire’s recent pricing adjustments going into effect across their Cloud portfolio this month, many teams are taking a hard look at their underlying app line items. In particular, teams utilizing comprehensive visualization tools like Rich Filters…

Every engineering team tracks speed, or at least, they think they do. If you ask a Scrum Master or Product Manager how fast their team is moving, they will point to Velocity, Jira’s metric measuring completed Story Points or issues sprint over sprint. To complement velocity, teams evaluate Capacity by comparing estimated…

Managing a single project in Jira is straightforward: you create Epics, break them into Stories, run Sprints, and track your burn-down. Cross-project planning is where the friction begins. When your product initiative requires engineering, marketing, UX, and support to launch in sync, native Jira views can quickly feel…