Your weekly source for tips, tricks, and how-to's to get the most from your Atlassian tools
Your Jira already documents itself. The admin screens are a live, accurate, zero-maintenance inventory of every field, scheme, and workflow you have, and any page you write that duplicates them starts rotting the moment you publish. What the config will never tell you is why any of it is there. That gap is the only documentation you were ever actually responsible for, and it’s the one nearly everybody skips.
Jira disaster recovery tells you how to get back to green. It doesn’t tell you what keeps running meanwhile. Seven failure modes, and a template.
Atlassian Connect Phase 2 is already active — your apps can no longer grow. Here’s what it means for your instance and what to ask your vendors.
Have you ever wondered why the bad custom field advice is terrible?
Like why can’t we have:
– Duplicate field names? Yes, please.
– Required everything? Obviously.
– Free text forever? Why not.
Come for the bad advice, stay for the what will actually happen.
Have you ever been in a situation where your Jira Cloud data just went poof? If it’s Atlassian’s fault your covered, but what if it’s not? Today we discuss the elements of a healthy backup regime and how you can achieve it with your Jira Cloud Instance.
Paid partnership with Revyz.
Atlassian released their April Security bulletin yesterday. Let’s dig into this, see what all the excitement is about, and see what people are getting wrong about it. Are you impacted by this?
Today, we look at a user-requested topic and discuss how you should name objects in Jira. Ever wonder how you can trace a screen or workflow back to a project without an audit? It’s all in how you name it! What are some of your naming rules?
Last week, a reader reached out to me asking for help running SSL directly from Jira. Today I answer – and even find the mistake in the instructions that might have thwarted them! How do you run SSL for Jira?
Are you preparing to do a job interview for a Jira Admin position? Or perhaps you’re interviewing some one to be a Jira Admin? Today we show how you can do some tests and give some questions you can ask to give yourself the best chance at success!
Today I jump into the world of Jira Cloud by starting up a Cloud instance. What things do you find easier or harder on Jira Cloud?
The Jira Guy 