It's the culture of innovation that lets creative juices into your organization. However, you can increase that flow by using some settings, features, and apps for Jira. Let's quickly review the pro-innovation stuff available in Jira environment. Jira's built-in voting feature Up-voting Jira issues is indeed the way to go... read more →
Oct
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Sep
23
A project manager might be wondering how to take advantage of Jira's time tracking in a project management app, such as BigPicture or BigGantt. First and foremost – you might use time tracking to measure the progress of a project or its phases in the Scope or Gantt chart modules.... read more →
Sep
23
BigPicture and Structure are both project management apps for Jira, but they differ more than one may imagine. Structure basically resembles a very powerful Excel worksheet with sheets full of issues and hierarchy levels. The structures in Structure for Jira have lots of filtering, grouping and auto-sum options. Big Picture, on... read more →
Sep
17
BigPicture Enterprise addresses the needs of large-scale organizations; it enhances the way projects and portfolios are managed by delivering high-level PPM features. The 'BPE', as we call it in SoftwarePlant, adds enterprise-level reporting, 'see tasks across all programs' sort of features and more. Let's enumerate what does the Enterprise extension... read more →
Sep
16
Five years of continuous growth Ever since... read more →
Sep
03
When it comes to progress tracking, BigPicture and BigGantt add two things to plain Jira: (1) a visual layer, namely progress bars, and (2) an aggregation layer, i.e. the SUM and AVERAGE functions that calculate the progress of whole epics or projects. In this tutorial, we'll review five methods of... read more →
Sep
03
SoftwarePlant has come a long way: from two founding developers sitting in a 16 m2 room, to a strong team of over 70 skilled specialists working comfortably in our new, modern office space. Still, when it comes to hiring, we value quality over quantity. We know that our recruitment meetings... read more →
Aug
27
The standard Ctrl+click and Shift+click now work in Jira BigPicture (beginning BP ver. 7.5). Which BigPicture modules let you select multiple issues at a time? How to bulk indent, outdent, move or delete tasks? Let's look closer at how the new multi-select feature might streamline your chores. You can multi-select... read more →
Aug
26
Many approaches to Initiatives exist throughout the project management community. Some claim an initiative is a short-lived, rough idea that will either receive funding (and become a project) or be scrapped. According to others, an initiative is as elaborate as a project, has epics and stories linked to it, and... read more →
Aug
26
Is Jira the right choice for marketing agencies, filmmakers and media sector in general? How do marketing projects fit into Jira, a relatively special piece of project management software? Let's check a sample workflow in Jira + BigPicture. We'll shoot a Coca-Cola commercial. Why do we need BigPicture addon on... read more →