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Time Tracking: Recording your Time with Jira
In the last article, “Sprint Management with Jira: Estimating Your Velocity” we discussed how to plan work for a Sprint. Teams may simply estimate their time in hours and while others might estimate in story points. We mainly looked at how this would take place during...
Sprint Management with Jira: Estimating Your Velocity
In our last article: “Release Management: How to track you releases with a roadmap” We discussed how to use Atlassian Jira Software to track releases. For Teams that contribute to a release across projects, there are tools such Advanced Roadmaps and...
A Tale of Two Service Desks
Earlier this year, I was tapped to create and manage our client service portal here at Ascend Integrated. Looking back at my prior experiences as both a guide for what not to do and an inspiration for how to elevate the customer experience, I began to recall my first...
Release Management: How to Track Your Releases with a Roadmap
Getting Up to Speed In our last article: “What Agile Tools Should We Use to Plan Our Work” We discussed how to use Atlassian Jira Software to plan work. We looked at some different AddOns to rate issues that are to become work items for a team by...
What Agile Tools Should We Use to Plan Our Work?
Part 1 – Prioritizing our work and determining its complexity in Jira In our previous blog article, “HOW MUCH SHOULD I BUDGET FOR AGILE (AND OTHER FRAMEWORKS)?” we discussed the decision making process for making an investment into your...
How much should I Budget for Agile (and other frameworks)?
Agile Processes When an organization starts out its processes are loosely defined. Why complicate things? When there are few parties involved, communication can remain informal. It’s usually easy to get in touch with each other. Transparency is preferred because of...
Agile Government and the Tools to Enable IT Successfully
Introduction Reviewing FBO.gov and the GSA Ebuy portal, there are currently close to 300 open opportunities across the Federal government for the implementation, development, or management of agile processes and procedures. Tools used to enable and reinforce these...
John DeLorean – The Dangers of Unchecked Entrepreneurship
Before the technology giants of today, the automotive industry, a looming and monopolistic industry paved the way for manufacturing and innovation. Eventually, General Motors (GM), Ford, and Chrysler would come to define an entire century rich with innovation. At the...
Ascend with Atlassian: 2021 Government Symposium
What is the Atlassian Government Symposium? The Atlassian Government Symposium is an event held annually that allows government teams to connect, share, and learn how to take Agile work concepts and integrate them into their practices. As a certified Atlassian...
Agility Parenting
Parents are naturally Agile and don’t know it. Yes, you read that correctly. You’re Agile and don’t even realize it. What is Agile? Agile was initially designed for software development, so you may be asking yourself: what does that have to do with being...