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Scrum Vs Kanban: Pros & Cons – total comparison

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
January 27, 2016

Kanban is a model of continuous improvement. That is why project priorities can be changed in real time depending on what takes priority at a given moment. You can also add requirements and be very flexible in case your client changes his mind about something. Kanban is frequently used for bug fixes and support as with these […]

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JIRA and Confluence. Benefits of Integration

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
November 23, 2015

Here are the main benefits of JIRA and Confluence integration, that allows you to: – create and edit pages quickly and easily; – stay in the loop on other projects and any information you’re interested in; – attach documents and follow discussions of your team; – create any number of workspaces and logically organize the […]

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Must Have JIRA Plugins for Product Companies

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
August 14, 2015

JIRA Service Desk Simple explanation – it’s the most valuable Atlassian extension because it’s an extra instrument to give your clients the most qualified support. It has been launched last year and by now it has become the most popular add-on for JIRA. Salesforce plugin This add-on supports Salesforce, SugarCRM and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Moreover, […]

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6 Key Principles of Business Process Automation

Aleks Yenin
Posted by Aleks Yenin
June 19, 2015

Each company has its own unique approach to business process automation they implement, but there are still several fundamental principles each one of them follows (even if they can be called by different names). We personally have outlined 6 of them. Some of them are widely known and accepted, some we have outlined ourselves. USA […]

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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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