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We Audited Our Own Six Marketplace Listings — Here's What Fixing Them Actually Did
We audited our own six Marketplace listings. Here is what was broken, and what fixing it actually did. Disclosure: I build Jira apps at Ballon Apps. Every example below is one of our own listings — I am not naming or scoring anyone else's. We publish six Jira apps. Earlier this year none of them were being found, and the…
Why approvals in Jira so often end up in a comment — and what that costs
I work at Ballon Apps, where we build apps for Jira — including the one I mention at the end of this post. This is about a pattern I run into at almost every team, and that we ran into ourselves before we built anything for it. The pattern. An issue needs to be approved before it can move on. Jira has no field for that, so…

We Audited Our Own Six Marketplace Listings — Here's What Fixing Them Actually Did
We audited our own six Marketplace listings. Here is what was broken, and what fixing it actually did. Disclosure: I build Jira apps at Ballon Apps. Every example below is one of our own listings — I am not naming or scoring anyone else's. We publish six Jira apps. Earlier this year none of them were being found, and the…
Why approvals in Jira so often end up in a comment — and what that costs
I work at Ballon Apps, where we build apps for Jira — including the one I mention at the end of this post. This is about a pattern I run into at almost every team, and that we ran into ourselves before we built anything for it. The pattern. An issue needs to be approved before it can move on. Jira has no field for that, so…