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Stay up to date with our most recent news and updatesTransforming DevOps at the Department of Veterans Affairs
After years of utilizing the Rational Suite extensively across programs and projects, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is looking at other options for their DevOps and project management capabilities. Increasing collaboration across teams within OIT, and...
Atlassian Summit ’19 Recap
We were pleased to attend the Atlassian Summit this year, what a great turn out! Summit is a great way for Atlassian specialists, partners, and users to discuss the use of the Atlassian Tool Suite, along with reviewing up and coming functionality and capabilities of...
Atlassian Jira and Defense – Supporting the Agile U.S. Warfighter
Last week, Ascend Integrated accompanied Atlassian and Carahsoft and attended the AFCEA West 2019 event in San Diego, CA. The conference is an excellent event to attend, whether you are an IT professional or working in some way with the United States Military /...
Safeguarding PHI / PII in Jira & Confluence
We know it is something you shouldn’t be doing, storing personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI) in your Jira issues. But, mistakes happen, or maybe you are required by your organization to securely store / access this...
3 Ways to use Color Queues in Jira
By now you have heard of our latest free app to reach the Atlassian Marketplace, “Color Queues for Jira Service Desk”: Color Queues for Jira Service Desk. If not, Color Queues is a free app developed by Ascend Integrated enabling users to highlight and focus on...
Fine Tune Your Jira Display with Copy & Sync
Sometimes, you need to get more out of what you’re viewing in your issue. Out of the box, Atlassian provides a powerhouse of options and field customizations available to the user. However, users of Jira often get hung up on the terminology and vocabulary introduced...
Color Coding Agile – 3 Techniques with Color Cards
There are many ways to use Color Cards, a free app for Jira Software server available through the Atlassian Marketplace. In this blog, we are going to focus on three ways you can use Color Cards for your agile team, or just to improve visualizations in your...
Automating Jira – 3 Examples Using Automation for Jira
As Atlassian Experts and Solution Partner, Ascend Integrated uses many add-ons (apps) for implementing complex business requirements and scenarios. These add-ons / apps provide the ability to extend Jira further, either by adding...
Training in the Atlassian Suite
The importance of training can never be underestimated, especially for the Atlassian Tool Suite. For all its ease of use (i.e. you can get a Jira project created and ready to go in under 2 minutes in many cases), there may be some functionality you and your firm are...
5 Free Ways to Boost Your Productivity in Jira
If its free it can’t be that great, right? There are a number of great, free add-ons / apps / plugins available for Jira server that will instantly boost your Jira or your team’s efficiency. We wanted to compile a list of apps you need to install and review now for...