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How to use JIRA And Confluence for Academic Institutions

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
June 11, 2015

One of the main reasons for this is the flexible pricing policy that Atlassian is conducting towards JIRA and Confluence academic licenses. Due to its affordability (the price for academic licenses is twice less than for enterprise ones) and support from Atlassian and the wide network of its official experts, JIRA and Confluence are chosen […]

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JIRA Tasks Visualization

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
June 2, 2015

JIRA offers great possibilities for managing projects, tasks, issues, but when a project is too big and complicated it is hard to see and comprehend the whole picture of it. This is where visualization helps. Visualization is the representation of project information in the form of graphs, charts, diagrams etc. It presents the information and linkage […]

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5 Cases of Using JIRA

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
April 21, 2015

The webinar was a great success. The listeners who were new to JIRA could learn about this great tool, and those who had already been using JIRA could find out about new opportunities it can offer for various business purposes. Because not many aware of endless possibilities of JIRA, such as: bug-tracking service desk warehouse […]

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How to Manage Multiple Instances in JIRA

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
April 14, 2015

    1. Merging two (or more, in one needs) JIRAs into one with simultaneous creation of separate stack permissions. For this you must synchronize plugins and JIRA version, implement configurations backup (with the help of a special plugin or manually), migrate each project from one JIRA system to the other, and thus be able to […]

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How to Choose the Right Method for Project Management

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
April 6, 2015

Waterfall Methodology   Waterfall has developed from traditional project management. It is a method in which progress is seen as a waterfall flowing steadily downwards through several phases. Under this method project managers try to eliminate risk and uncertainty by outlining all the steps in a project and defining its scope, budget, and schedule upfront, […]

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JIRA vs Redmine Compare

Redmine vs Jira: Comparing Issue Tracking Software

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
March 12, 2015

First of all, let’s focus on technical aspects of these products. Redmine vs Jira Redmine is open-source software, which means that with the help of an experienced developer you can improve the tool according to your business needs. JIRA, in its turn, is a closed source program. However, it has much wider API possibilities and […]

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Polontech Workflow – Atlassian consultancy and expertise step by step

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
February 24, 2015

Client’s initial request goes to Polontech Atlassian Expert. When a client reaches us for services the first person he contacts is not the engineer with whom he can discuss the technical detail or the department head deciding on general issues, but Polontech Atlassian Expert. It is the perfect person for the primary contact as he is […]

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Use of Stash and SourceTree together

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
November 7, 2014

Stash is a web application that hosts your git repositories for you – you might think of it as a git “server”. SourceTree is a GUI “client” that allows developers to work with git repositories on their local computers. SouceTree has the ability to clone repositories from your Stash server (or any other git server). […]

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Stop Using Email and Start Using JIRA for Approvals

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
October 8, 2014

We’ve created 2 major solutions how to do that: As described in the article – we’ve created a multi user custom field, a workflow with 2 transitions (one cycle transition to the same status and one to the next status). We’ve created a set of conditions – one to check if user already followed the […]

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