Hey Jira Guys and Gals, How have you been? Me, I’ve been busy. If you haven’t seen, I’ve partnered with Alex at Apetech Tech Tutorials to start a podcast/weekly video called The Jira Life. We’ve been hitting it hard since the start of the year and have seen good growth. We recently hit 1000 subscribers. So, if you have yet to see it, please check it out and subscribe! While I’ve missed working on the blog, I’ve needed a bit of a change of pace to recharge my creative batteries. But, I’m back! Unfortunately, what brings me back here could be more fun. Yesterday, Atlassian dropped their monthly ..read more

Good Morning, Jira Guys and Gals! I hope you had an enjoyable (and, most importantly, restful) holiday season and are entering 2024 strong! I know I am – I have so many plans for this blog, The Jira Life, and my social media profiles that if everything works out, 2024 will be amazing. Speaking of amazing times, I got an email from one of you on my birthday. While I always appreciate emails from fans – I especially love ones that give me a topic to write about! The reader wanted to know my thoughts on naming conventions of objects – how to go about naming the various schemes and settings in Jir ..read more

Good Morning, Jira Guys and Gals. I hope your week is going well. If you missed it, I posted a bonus article Monday talking about Atlassian Intelligence. But as promised, we are (finally) continuing our “What is Jira” series today. So, the question we are answering today is, “Why Jira?” That is, why would you choose Jira? What benefits are there? What are the frustrations? After all, to answer the question “Why Jira,” we must also answer, “Why anything but Jira?” Let’s dig into this! Flexibility If I need to clarify it, this is the main reason you should select Jira. The consensus is that the ..read more

Hello, Jira Guys and Gals! As you can see, this post isn’t on my normal post schedule! That’s because we have big news coming from Atlassian today! Last April, at Team 23, the world was introduced to Atlassian Intelligence, Atlassian’s Large Language Model development effort designed to help you get more work done. Today, at Atlassian Unleash, Atlassian has announced that Atlassian Intelligence is Generally Available. And guess who has the low down on what’s included, what it allows you to do, and how you can get your hands on it? Let’s dig into this! What is Atlassian Intelligence? Let’s ..read more

Good Morning, Jira Guys and Gals. Last week…was something. Let me explain. Most of you saw this ominous post: I won't say what caused it this morning (story for another time), but my heart condition is out of control. This obiously needs to be top priority, so likely no post today. #healthfirst #hcm @4hcm #AtlassianCreator @Atlassian pic.twitter.com/U0RPGj5hpM — Rodney N – The Jira Guy (@theJiraguy) November 22, 2023 And yeah, my heart rate was not under control. But that was only half of what was going on. Anyone who’s seen me in any appearance over the past few weeks will know I’ve had a ..read more

Good Morning, Jira Guys and Gals. I’m going to be making a different sort of post today. Most of my posts are directed towards Jira Admins – people who already know Jira. If that’s you, I’m sorry to disappoint, but this post isn’t for you. Instead, I want to direct it at a different sort – people new to Jira. If you’ve just been told your team will start using Jira to organize your work, and you’re unsure how to pronounce it, this is for you.   What even is Jira? Why would I want to start using it? What are its advantages and disadvantages? What’s the difference between Software, Ser ..read more

Hey, Jira Guys and Gals. Yes, it’s been a minute. I needed a (few) Mental Health Month(s). That said, I was hardly idle – what with The Jira Life Podcast, JiraCon, Jira Day, welcoming a new cohort of Atlassian Creators, and more – I stayed busy.  The intermediate business leads me to today’s post. I got a question a few weeks ago that caught my attention. When I first read it, I immediately responded, “Really, how do you answer that?” There are so many variables that went into their simple question that I initially struggled to answer it. I even had to check with the Atlassian Abyss to ma ..read more

Happy Wednesday, Jira Guys and Gals. I hope your week has been a great one so far. Before I get into it, I want to thank everyone for the support you have shown me over the past week. Whether it’s partners reaching out with Job offers and sponsorship proposals, readers celebrating, or even Atlassian’s social media & learning team showing their support, I’ve felt the love.   So, what are we talking about today? This weekend, I dove in and started bringing a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster online. It’s smaller than I’d hoped – with the chip shortage, finding new Raspberry Pi system ..read more

Well, it’s been a minute, Jira Guys and Gals. As I stated on Twitter and LinkedIn last week, I made some big decisions but had to wait a moment to do things right before making this announcement public. Let’s begin with the basics. My posting here has been…sporadic. Simply put, I’m being pulled in too many directions. If I give the blog all the effort it deserves, my day job performance suffers; if I give the effort my day job demands, the blog suffers. I’m only one human. Then we get to the fact that if I take sponsorships here, it does open me up to some concerns. Look, at my day job, we use ..read more

How is your week going, Jira Guys and Gals? Just saying July was rough, but it’s August now! Where is the time going? I will say this; I have a lot of plans in the works in the background, so please stay tuned! July may have been slow, but the next few months should be packed. But let’s focus on today. A few weeks ago, I got an email I’ve been waiting for since Team ’23. I might have had a bit of fun with it: Yep, I have access to Confluence Whiteboards. So let’s go through it, test the various features, and discuss this massive addition to Confluence Cloud! So, what is Confluence Whiteboards ..read more