A great Product Manager innovates and motivates more than they make plans or resource management. A Jira-based product manager is no exception to that rule: a simple roadmap and cross-team dependency board are tools to go with. What's the workflow of a Product Manager (as opposed to a Project manager),... read more →
Feb
18
Feb
11
To most users, Jira's standard work breakdown structure (a.k.a. Epic –> Story –> Sub-task) is not enough. They need a visual WBS, and this is delivered by addons available from Atlassian Marketplace. These plugins can build their graphical, drillable WBS on Jira's native issue links, such as 'relates to' or... read more →
Feb
07
When you think 'project dependencies' you usually need something more than Jira's standard task links. BigPicture is valued for its three options in terms of dependencies: the best known is the arrow that connects two tasks in BigPicture's Gantt chart. We call this type 'strong dependency' because once a task... read more →
Jan
31
Na trzy tygodnie przed końcem roku, SoftwarePlant nie zwalnia tempa. Od 13 do 20 grudnia, już po raz piąty odbył się nasz regularny, wewnętrzny ShipIt Week hackathon. Tym razem o zwycięstwo walczyły trzy drużyny. Piąta edycja ShipIt week hackathon w SoftwarePlant Do ostatniego w 2019 roku hackathonu SoftwarePlant przystąpiło pięć... read more →
Jan
23
Do you prefer to read this in English? Click here Aby dobrze zrozumieć mechanizm działania architektury wielo-tenantowej, należy zacząć od zrozumienia różnic między poszczególnymi modelami dystrybucji oprogramowania: single-tenant i multi-tenant. W obydwu przypadkach odbiorcą usługi jest tzw. ‘tenant’ lub inaczej ‘dzierżawca’. W praktyce, słowem tym najczęściej określa się wszystkich pracowników... read more →
Jan
21
When you search for a planning tool for an enterprise (a larger company), you are after a very special piece of software. Sure, you look for features, but a big buyer basically seeks a low-risk tool to align the board of directors with teams. Why does it pose a problem?... read more →
Jan
10
'Is Jira a viable project management tool?' – are you ready for a different perspective on this eternal question? Short answer: technically, it's not that great for an average industry. Long answer: for the last 20 years, Jira has only been winning the market share. Why? Jira diversifies your risks.... read more →
Jan
03
Jira is officially an agile project management system. Even when Atlassian states Jira does 'mixed' PM, they still mean Scrumban or Kanplan. Meanwhile, various non-software industries increasingly rely on Jira and these organizations tend to practice both waterfall and agile methodologies. Let's see how to maintain a hybrid, cross-methodology environment... read more →
Dec
30
Plain Jira is enough to be able to use Kanban boards, right? Project managers, however, increasingly research the 'jira bigpicture kanban' keyphrase. Why? Fact 1: if you have many teams, a cross-team board, with colorful arrows standing for dependencies between tasks, might promote completing the tasks in the right order.... read more →
Dec
17
New features have been in good supply in Jira BigPicture / BigGantt throughout 2019. We saw the premiere of Board 2.0 and Reports modules, as well as multiple improvements, such as Multi-select, Quick assignee, and performance fixes. However, certain project management utensils are still missing from BigPicture and BigGantt. So... read more →