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.
How do you decide when to do a Jira Restart? Are regular restarts even necessary? Today we look at just that and answer a reader’s question! How do you plan your Jira restarts?
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?
So, how do you deal with users who don’t seem to be a partner in resolving their own tickets? Today I cover some of these “Problem” User archetypes and what you can do to make things run smoother? What are your Ticket Challenges?
We’re back! Today we look at what happens if you have too many Releases in your #JIra Project! How many do you think is too many?
It took a bit of work, but I have it! Today we cover how to install Jira on Windows – step by step. Are you running Jira on a Windows system?
Today we look at Jira Permissions – from Global Jira Admin to how Project roles can play their part in your instance’s performance. What’s your favorite Permission tip?
Do you know how a Field goes through all the various Configurations that determines if it gets displayed or not? Well today we go through the Jira Object Model to explain just that!
The Jira Guy 