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Jira Security And Backup Best Practices For Jira Admins

Secure your Jira instance like a pro with our expert-backed tips on security and backup best practices. Don't leave your project's safety to chance.

META-INF Atlassian Day Conference: ITSM Meets Budapest

The META-INF Atlassian Day conference in Budapest showcased the latest IT Service Management (ITSM) trends. Reliex presented a solutions like ActivityTimeline for Jira, a powerful tool to optimize capacity management and resource utilization.

Resource Allocation in Jira with ActivityTimeline: Best Practice

Are you struggling with resource allocation for your Jira projects? Check out this article to learn about the best practices for resource allocation in Jira and how the ActivityTimeline plugin can help to ensure that resources are used efficiently.

Execution Phase in Project Management: Complete Overview

Read tips for a successful project execution phase in project management, the stages of the product execution phase, the importance of a project execution plan, what it should include, and the challenges associated with it. And how the Jira tool ActivityTimeline can help with the project execution.

Git Jira Integration: Improve DevOps Workflow

With Jira and Git working together, teams can implement feedback in an agile manner.  But how do you make optimizations for DevOps with Jira Git integration? Discover in our article.

Deviniti Jira Day 2022. How was it? | Reliex

Our team has recently come back from the largest Atlassian-related conference in Central Europe that took place on the 7-8th of September in Warsaw, Poland. Our colleagues, who participated this time, want to share their memories and emotions with you.

Reliex gains the status of Atlassian Platinum Marketplace Partner!

Today, we proudly announce that Reliex has become an official Atlassian Platinum Marketplace Partner! We’re highly honored at this great acknowledgment of our company. This is a big step in our history and we would like to thank our customers for their trust.

What is Jira? Quick Guide in Infographic

What is Jira? What is it used for? What are the key benefits of using this Atlassian tool? Quick Guide in one Infographic

Jira Tutorials: Top Resources to Learn How to Use Jira in 2024

Planning on getting started with JIRA? Check out the list of the most relevant Jira tutorials, trainings, and "How to Use" guides.

Atlassian Launches the New Cloud Fortified Program!

Atlassian introduced a new program that will help customers to easily identify apps with advanced security practices.

6 Most Popular Team Planning Add-ons for Jira Cloud - Updated in 2023

As Jira transitions to the Cloud, it’s vital to be informed about the best cloud apps available on the Marketplace, so we want to introduce you team planning add - ons for Jira, in order to keep you up to date and prepared for a new priority for Atlassian Jira - Cloud Hosting.

Jira Resource Planning Tips: How to Manage Work Overload with ActivityTimeline

If you have some potential work for a team member and want to know how to manage work overload, but you are not sure who is available for these Jira tasks? Check a team members’ availability which is based on their involvement with ActivityTimeline.

Jira Holiday Calendar. ActivityTimeline, Tempo and Advanced Roadmaps Integration

Feature of ActivityTimeline has a big change for managers - a data import from Tempo like holiday schemes, users, teams, and user positions. Also we have feature Holiday Schemes with the ability to import calendars from Tempo and Advanced Roadmaps (Portfolio).

Find Duplicates: How to Avoid Bug-Clones in Jira?

How to ensure that defect duplicates in Jira? Just check out how the Find Duplicates works and you will understand why it’s so required. Find Duplicates can find all potential bugs and other tickets in the system.

What’s New in Email Notifications Digest for Jira?

Emails are no longer a messy bunch or a distracting factor at work with disordered information. We updated Email Notification Digest to a new level of tracking your work in Jira.

Why work underload is as stressful as overload

Discover the hidden threat of role underload in the workplace. Learn how to combat work underload stress with effective communication, new challenges, and time management tools for a more engaged and productive team.

Capacity Management in Jira: What You Need to Know

Let’s break down the key concepts, strategies, and best practices for implementing an effective capacity management process using Jira and other resource management tools.

Jira Sprint Planning: How to Manage Team's Capacity?

Unlock the secrets to successful team capacity management during Jira Sprint Planning! Discover strategies for boosting productivity and tackling overcapacity challenges.

How to Set up Jira Project Management Timeline?

Discover the secrets to effective project timelines in Jira with our expert tips and tricks. Elevate your project management game today!

How to Get A Jira Multi-Project Board?

Looking to streamline project management across multiple teams? Dive into our guide on creating a Jira multi-project board and unlock the key to efficient collaboration and productivity.

Jira Recurring Tasks: How to Create and Manage?

Are you spending too much time on repetitive tasks in Jira? Don't miss out on mastering Jira recurring tasks for a more efficient and organized project management experience.

Simplified Project Management: Mastering Jira Issue Tracking

Discover the essentials of simplified project management with our guide on Mastering Jira Issue Tracking. Streamline your workflow and boost productivity.

Top 7 Tips for Jira Team Planning

Transform your Jira team planning strategy with our proven tips! Learn how to optimize workflows, foster better communication, and achieve project excellence in no time.

Project Management with Jira Dashboard and ActivityTimeline

Foster harmony within your project team by harnessing the collaborative capabilities of Jira Dashboard and ActivityTimeline, ensuring a synchronized and successful project journey.

How to Create Jira Planned vs Actual Chart in ActivityTimeline?

Dive into effective project visualization with our expert insights on building a Jira Planned vs Actual Chart. Master the art of project planning.

Jira Visualization with Reports and Dashboards

Discover the impact of Jira Visualization on project success. Learn to harness the potential of Reports and Dashboards for enhanced project management efficiency. Explore our comprehensive guide now.

How to Create Jira Custom Charts?

Charts help to visualize data, track progress, and make data-driven decisions efficiently. In this article, we will explore tips on how to create Jira custom charts with ActivityTimeline, with the main focus on the Team Capacity Chart.

Jira Scheduling Techniques: Unleash Your Team's Potential

Effective scheduling can make or break a team's success. This article will delve into Jira scheduling techniques, revealing how they can unleash your team's full potential.

How to Create a Jira Planning Board: Quick Guide

Looking to make your projects more efficient? Learn how to create a Jira Planning Board here. In this article, we'll delve into the world of Jira Planning Boards, exploring their features, benefits, and how to make the most of this valuable resource.

Understand Team Utilization with the Jira Pie Chart

Discover the Jira Pie Chart: Your key to understanding and improving team utilization. Enhance productivity with data-driven insights.

Jira Team Management and Improved Collaboration

Jira Team Management improves team collaboration and promotes better communication and efficiency. Unlock your team's full potential with ActivityTimeline and Jira.

How to Create Jira Time Spent Report?

Jira Time Spent Report is a valuable tool that provides actionable insights for enhanced project management. This article delves into the process of creating a Time Spent Report, providing a step-by-step guide to help you effectively manage your projects.

How to Make Jira Calendar for Teams?

Do you need a better way to manage team schedules? Unveil the potential of Jira Calendar and Jira calendar plugins for effortless planning, coordination, and optimized productivity.

Jira Timesheet Report: Overview

Timesheet reporting is an essential part of project management and resource planning. Let's dive deeper into the topic to understand why time tracking cannot be overestimated when speaking about the project’s success.

How to use Jira for Project Management: Basic Principles

Learn how to use Jira for project management with our comprehensive guide. Discover the best practices, tips, and tricks to optimize your team's workflow and boost productivity.

Jira Resource Management: A Brief Guide on How to Streamline the Process

Master Jira resource management and make your process streamlined! Learn the secrets in our brief guide

How to Optimize Work Processes and Resources in 2023?

Learn how to optimize work processes and resources in 2023 using ActivityTimeline, a resource planning and time tracking app for Jira. Read this blog post to find out more!

Advanced Custom Reports in Jira: Best Techniques

In this article, we’ll explore the best techniques for advanced Jira reporting. Let’s get started.

What is a Timeline for Jira and How to Use It?

ActivityTimeline plugin in Jira is a great solution for users and teams to see all tasks on a timeline quickly, view task deadlines and assign them, track progress, plan ahead, and forecast capacity. This plugin is incredibly useful for organizing and managing projects, task schedules, and resources.

Strategies to Manage Workload During Inflation & Economic Downturn

Workload distribution is a problem for most organizations. The effects of inflation and economic recession have put even more pressure on the organization to get things done, run efficiently, and continually improve. In such a scenario, how does one deal with workloads?

How to Understand Jira Resource Utilization?

Jira resource utilization is an integral part of successful project management. Jira heavily concentrates on projects and tasks, but when it comes to comprehensive Jira resource management we find out that we lack some capabilities.

How to improve Team Workload Management in Jira

Effective Team Workload Management in Jira with ActivityTimeline to work more efficiently by maximizing the skills and productivity of employees.

Top 5 Capacity Planners for Jira

Resource capacity is a key planning factor when designing a project using Jira. In this blog, we will list the top 5 capacity planners for Jira that can be used to help you manage different resources in a better way.

Task Management in Jira: 7 tips for effective work

How to use Task Management in Jira more effectively when you have a lot of tasks and issues to deal with. Learn more about task workflow and issue types in Jira

11 Ways to Meet Your Project Deadlines in Jira

Time by time everyone can have a hard time dealing with tasks. One trick that helps not miss a deadline in a daily work with ActivityTimeline. One trick that helps not miss a deadline in a daily work with ActivityTimeline.

Jira Use Case: Increasing Visibility in Agile Team

Use Case for Agile company to solve the lack of transparency, employee overload, or underload by using ActivityTimeline for Jira. How to increase a Team Visibility by using ActivityTimeline

How to Assign Jira Tasks to a Team?

ActivityTimeline has the possibility to assign tasks to a Team from the Jira issue screen with the help of the Team Field. Discover these and other tips for Jira resource planning in our blog!

Manage Team Capacity in Jira with Activity Timeline Reports

Keeping up with each and every team member and track team capacity is a time-consuming process. In order to make these processes easier, we included a Reports features to Activity Timeline, which will help them keep a check of all these things without putting in much time or effort.

Jira Milestones: Every Way You Can Create and Track Them

Learn practical strategies to master Jira roadmap milestones and drive project success. Discover valuable tips to enhance your workflow.

Time Tracking in Jira - Best Practices

Time tracking in Jira helps you track your time and stay organized by working on multiple tasks at once. The benefits of using Time Tracking in Jira are numerous, especially for those who work in a team environment.

6 Most Popular Activity Timeline Reports for Jira

Every manager has a favorite reports to work with. In ActivityTimeline we have 6 such reports. It's Planning Report, Project Summary/Detailed Workload Report, Skill Availability Report, Skill/Level Availability Report, Person/Team Availability Report, Position Availability Report.

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira: How to Integrate with ActivityTimeline?

See our comprehensive guide to integrating Jira Advanced Roadmaps with ActivityTimeline. Optimize your workflow and boost your team's performance.

Resource Management: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners

Learn the ropes of resource management with our comprehensive guide for beginners. From planning to execution, we've got you covered. Get started today!

Lack of Resources in Project Management: How to Discover?

Before starting a project, we plan the resources we need and assign people to tasks according to their skills and abilities. If we are running out of resources, how can we discover that? Here’s a quick guide for you!

How to Plan Non-Human Resources in Jira?

ActivityTimeline supports non-human resources management in Jira and makes the whole planning process for both people and machines effortless.

How to Efficiently Track Meeting Time in Jira?

You’ve probably experienced the struggle of tracking time spent in meetings. Meetings can take up valuable time, so very often users need accurate meeting tracking, as meetings also equal worked hours.

ActivityTimeline as a Resource Capacity Planner for Jira

How ActivityTimeline as a Resource Capacity Planner for Jira can provide visualization of resource utilization. Jira is mainly focused on advanced project management & planning but you can’t understand the resource availability and workload properly. ActivityTimeline can solve this issue.

Jira Multiple Teams and One Project - How to Plan Work?

What if you have multiple teams all working on the same Jira project? Read our guide to learn how to manage a single project in Jira, but with multiple teams working on it.

Jira Estimation: How to Estimate Project with ActivityTimeline?

Planning in Jira and project estimation always go hand in hand. Firstly you need to estimate projects correctly, secondly to distribute work effectively between the team members, as a result, the project will be delivered on time.

How to Track the Progress of Your Project in Jira with ActivityTimeline?

Tracking the progress of your Jira projects goes hand in hand with advanced resource planning. Resource planning in Jira includes various techniques such as planning future undertakings, task scheduling, tracking of the resource utilization, and time spent.

Jira Calendar Integration: Display Jira Issues in My Personal Calendar

Personal and working lives always go hand in hand with each other, so people try to balance between them. Sometimes checking work calendar and personal schedule with everyday life tasks starts to annoy, as it takes much time and effort, so we’ve decided to share a great life hack with you.

How to Get a Capacity Report for Your Team in Jira?

Capacity evaluation and project management go hand in hand. Generally, capacity planning has “double sides of the coin”. Sometimes we need to understand the resources' workload in a comprehensive view, but another time it’s necessary to have a picture of the resources' availability in a more detailed view.

How to Manage Workload on the Teams' Level

Workload management in Jira is quite challenging if you don’t have the right instruments.

How to Encourage Your Employees to Log Time in Jira?

Boost Work Logging in Jira with Effortless Time Tracking: Discover top practices with tool like ActivityTimeline for streamlined log work in Jira, distraction-free tracking, and transparent reporting

How to Distinguish Billable & Non-Billable Hours in Jira?

Many Jira users face with the question “How to log billable or non - billable hours in Jira?”, but they cannot find the right answer, as Jira lacks this feature. Luckily, ActivityTimeline may help users with this issue as it allows them to log billable & non-billable hours.

How to Migrate Jira Server to Jira Cloud?

Cloud hosting is not something extra new to our world and its popularity constantly increases. Many users think that the Cloud is our future and name numerous advantages.

Why do We Need Time Tracking in Jira?

Time tracking is crucial in every working process. It doesn't matter if you run one or two teams, small or big company, remote or in-office employees, the main point is the same - time tracking is always a must.

How to Assign an Issue to Multiple Users in Jira?

In the new release of ActivityTimeline v6.0, we announced a new feature Bulk Approve.  Bulk Approve is available for Placeholders and Bookings approving. Instead of approving or unapproving each ticket you can use Bulk Approve.

How to Display Jira Tasks in my Outlook Calendar?

Streamline your workflow and never miss a beat! Discover how to sync Jira tasks with Outlook Calendar to stay on top of your project.

How to Get Cross-Project View for Shared Resources in Jira?

Enhance your project planning and execution in Jira with cross-project view. Our article demonstrates how to get the most out of this powerful feature.

How to Display Additional Assignees in Jira?

Very often team members have a need to work together on the same task. For example software team creates a new feature and Designer, Developer, QA should be assigned to the same task.

How to Track Epics in Jira?

It’s a usual thing that one big project has several sub-projects that don’t cross with each other but still influence the project's overall progress. Managers need to track project and sub-tasks within that project comprehensively.

How to Track Project Teams in Jira?

Tracking projects and managing resources are not easy tasks. Managers often need to track the progress of the project as a whole and the individual work of users. Unfortunately, in Jira, there is no easy way of doing this.

Create your Jira custom events in ActivityTimeline

Learn how to create Jira custom events in Activity Timeline. Discover the essential features of the scheduling tool and learn how to use it to maximize your event planning process.

The Easiest Way to Create a Placeholder for the Jira Task

When you have a JIRA issue ticket, but you are not ready to schedule or assign it, it is possible to create a Placeholder for the JIRA task.

Recession Planning and Resource Management in 2023

Prepare for a recession in 2023 and beyond. Check out our blog post on resource management and planning for the best tips and strategies for recession planning.

How to use Jira Product Discovery?

Jira Product Discovery has been designed to help teams identify customer needs, prioritize opportunities, and explore solutions quickly. Users can convert ideas into tasks and plan their work in a team starting with Jira Product Discovery and continuing in ActivityTimeline.

Resource Planning Jira Plugins: Top 7 apps on the Marketplace for 2023

Resource Planning Jira Plugins: Top 7 apps on the Marketplace for 2023 [Updated] | Try 7 resource planning plugins that are at the top of the Marketplace search.

Leave Management in Jira with ActivityTimeline

Learn more about leave management, vacations, holidays, sick leave, and days off in Jira. How to create, approve, and track leave for your team in Jira with ActivityTimeline

Jira Resource Planning: Filling the Missing Gaps

Jira is a comprehensive project tracking suite, which comes with a variety of features right away. See what features you can have with ActivityTimeline when it comes to effective resource planning and the possibility to have a quick real-time overview of who is doing what in your team.

How Does Santa Claus Plan his Schedule?

Once upon a time, long, long ago... Santa almost missed the deadline and was very upset, because billions of children waited for him with great hope. After the SWOT analysis, created by his secretary, Santa knew, that Grinch was not the main risk for Christmas.

Story Points Conversion

Lots of companies are used to story points due to the classic agile approach but it’s uncommon for them to discover a challenge while comparing the spent hours vs the estimate in Story Points.

How to Manage Geographically Dispersed Teams?

Modern world is used to remote work and teams dispersed all around the world. There are many ways of remote management for companies of all sizes: small, medium-sized businesses and huge corporations.

Panel for Jira Team: Board Overview

With the release of new ActivityTimeline v7.6, we open to the public long-awaited feature - Team Panel. Its main objective is to help users to plan on different levels within the short- and long - term periods.

Best Jira Reports

Organize your workflow with the best Jira reports, and see how to use them along with alternatives such as ActivityTimeline for efficient planning.

Holiday Schemes Management in Jira

Very often teams are dispersed across the world and even members of the same team can work far away from each other, so it could be a challenge to track their holidays correctly.

How to Understand that Team is Underloaded?

Some time ago we have highlighted in our blog a problem of the work underload which is very common but lacks proper attention. Studies have shown that the underloaded employees suffer from health problems just as much as overloaded people..

How to integrate ActivityTimeline with BigPicture or BigGantt?

Boost Jira project management with Reliex's ActivityTimeline seamless integration with SoftwarePlant's BigPicture and BigGantt add-ons. Enhance productivity today!

How to Display Jira Tasks in Google Calendar?

ActivityTimeline provides a great possibility of integration with external calendars such as Outlook, Google and Apple calendars.

ActivityTimeline and Tempo Planner Comparison

Both Jira plugins, ActivityTimeline and Tempo Planner, justly earned a great reputation as resource management platforms and they stand out from dozens of resource planning tools. They're quite alike, but functionality differs significantly and very often some seemingly minor things influence the choice of the potential customer.

Jira Remote Teams Management with ActivityTimeline

One of the most common questions nowadays is how to manage remote teams effectively during the outbreak of the COVID - 19 epidemic. In the 21st century it’s completely normal to run virtual teams and many companies move into remote due to a number of advantageous reasons..

Why Task Management is Important?

Some companies don’t pay much attention to simple tasks, they prefer looking further and living in milestones… and it’s a huge mistake, as even the smallest neglected task may destroy the whole project.

Planning Work for Consultants with Jira and ActivityTimeline

Take control of your work as a consultant with the help of Jira and Activity Timeline. Find out how to plan and track your projects with ease - read this article to learn more!

How to Find Duplicates in Jira?

Every day we face with dozen tickets in Jira and searching for the proper issue is not an easy task. We face duplicates, and tickets that someone else has already submitted. So, as a result, users often need to find duplicates in Jira to prevent confusion. Read how to do this