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500% increase in builds – from idea to reality
Blended Perspectives contributed to success of our client, Equitable bank, and the improvement of the build performance by 500% with Atlassian Cloud tools design and implementation.
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A side of diagramming with that Burger? The Top Ten Atlassian Third Party Apps
The Marketplace is a vibrant, low cost, magical place for new functionalities that leverages your Atlassian investment – congratulations to the top ten applications!
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Blended Perspectives is sponsor for the Annual PreSummit 2019 event, organized by the New York Atlassian User Group
As a Gold Sponsor of the Atlassian Summit 2019 (April 9-11, Las Vegas), we are proud to also sponsor the annual PreSummit event organized Monday, March 25th by the New York Atlassian User Group.
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Blended Perspectives’ App World – our selection of Atlassian Apps Developers
We developed an analysis framework called the 3rd Party App Excellence Matrix (APEX®) to allow us to choose from the many excellent contenders in the Atlassian Marketplace.
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The Atlassian framework approach for a healthy IT Team
Atlassian’s way to approach team performance – an eight attributes framework.
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itSMF – GTA – Connecting the Disconnected Enterprise
Get your free ticket to itSMF – GTA – Connecting the Disconnected Enterprise
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Jira 8.0 “I feel the need … the need for speed”
The long awaited v8 for Jira has now been released – here are the key takeaways and its all about performance… read more…
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Appfire 2018 Red Hot Reseller Award Winner
Appfire named us 2018 Red Hot Reseller Award Winner for being one of the top 5% partner as year-over-year growth and outstanding sales volume. We appreciate the recognition given and we’ll keep re-connecting the disconnected organizations.
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Be Happy! What we can learn from British Football about high performance teams and management
Seems as though an extremely competitive environment doesn’t rule out the idea that happy teams managed by excellent managers perform better. It seems to me though that a common theme among the younger, more successful managers – is that in the face of intense stress, they seem to find a way to be happy. And happy is infectious.
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Six steps to select and implement Atlassian 3rd party apps
3rd party app selection should be strategic, selective, tested and deployed all as quickly as possible to ensure that your teams are able to leverage the power of the Atlassian toolkit. Naturally we can help you with your journey.
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Re-connecting the disconnected organization (save a lot of money too!)
The answer isn’t to find a way to integrate a Salesforce or a Smartspring with our planning – it’s simply to do CRM in Jira! Jira has all the tools and add-ons needed to connect the organization rather than disconnect it.
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Objectivity: How this benefits our clients and a handy guide to selecting and implementing Apps
Finally, it is our experience that the successful adoption of Atlassian tools goes hand in hand with a well thought out and liberal use of 3rd arty apps. We encourage clients to acquire apps and to really get the most out of their Atlassian investment.
If you are looking for an independent, objective assessment of the apps you have today and those that you are considering please give us a call!
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A Round Up of Third Party Testing Apps for Jira Server – What’s the Secret Sauce for selecting the right solution for you?
Atlassian’s Marketplace is vast and rapidly changing and organizations have a multitude of choices for many solution areas – testing is especially rich. With the accepted demise of the old HP ALM platform, now owned by Micro Focus, many organizations have realized that they already have Jira, an excellent platform to support all of these testing functions.
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Atlassian Announces Price Increases – But We’ve Got Your Back!
We’ve Got Your Back – Minimize the Impact!
You can continue to benefit from the existing license model: Atlassian allows you to create a renewal quote at the current pricing before the October 12th 2018, after which the quote can be valid for about 90 days!
Our Take… Atlassian Service Desk – Finally acknowledged in the Forrester Wave
Forrester has finally acknowledged that Atlassian is a strong player in the Enterprise Service Management space, Gartner no doubt will be soon to follow.
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Putting Jira in the Spotlight – TIFF Planning Part 3
Up to this point I happily used Jira for early list curation and grooming and Jira along with Better Excel to make my list for film selection day but for the final output I was very resistant to changing my approach.
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Putting Jira in the Spotlight – TIFF Planning Part 2
I really do love planning things – however thanks to this blog series I was forced to not procrastinate by waiting until the morning of my TIFF package selection window to make my picks.
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Putting Jira in the Spotlight – TIFF Planning
Every year in the last few weeks before TIFF starts, I struggle with staying on top of the press releases and trailers while doing my day job and making sure that everything I need to do at work is sorted before I take a week off to watch movies.
Well this year, thanks to joining the team here at Blended Perspectives, I have a way to:
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The Denver AUG Webinar helps you with Planning for all Teams.
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The Sword of Damocles – Scripting in Jira
The slippery slope of scripting At Blended Perspectives, we frequently see scripting capabilities added to Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket. While in Confluence and Bitbucket the extent of what is possible to do with scripting is...
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How Project & Portfolio Management systems succumbed to the triple constraint & What to do about it…
This paper aims to better the reader’s understanding of Scaled Agile’s SAFe methodology and its implementation with the Atlassian Suite. In addition to enriching the reader’s understanding of SAFe, this paper will also explore Blended Perspectives’ take on SAFe and what solutions we have to offer.
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Optimizing Scrum – Fall Whitepaper
This paper aims to better the reader’s understanding of Scaled Agile’s SAFe methodology and its implementation with the Atlassian Suite. In addition to enriching the reader’s understanding of SAFe, this paper will also explore Blended Perspectives’ take on SAFe and what solutions we have to offer.
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Transform your Service Desk with Atlassian and Blended Perspectives!
We live in a services-first world and IT sits right at the center of this transformation. High-performing IT teams align with the business, embrace agile and automation, and drive digital transformation. Today’s customers want flawless service, fast.
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How Project & PPM (PPPM) Management systems succumbed to the triple constraint
In our last planning blog, we talked about why Waterfall is better in Jira. In this post, we’re going to discuss the issues facing many organizations that suffer from fragmented planning systems. Remember that good old triple constraint? It’s still very relevant to project management. The prevalence of Agile hasn’t changed this challenge.
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Agile HR – The new way to revolutionize your HR department!
You may be unaware but it is likely that you and your team partake in some Agile practices every single day. The latest department to take note? Human Resources!
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Seven Reasons why Waterfall is Even Better in Jira!
Before we start on why waterfall is even better in Jira – lets discuss the role of traditional planning. Rightly its one of the most important disciplines in getting anything done successfully. We know Agile is a strong way to develop code – or build anything.
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Atlassian Enterprise Releases: The New Way to Update
Atlassian Enterprise Releases: The New Way to Update
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How Atlassian Stride fits into ChatOps
Atlassian has designed Stride to be the conversation hub for communication between you and your team members.
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SAFe Atlassian Style (Updated version with SAFe 4.5)
This paper aims to better the reader’s understanding of Scaled Agile’s SAFe methodology and its implementation with the Atlassian Suite. In addition to enriching the reader’s understanding of SAFe, this paper will also explore Blended Perspectives’ take on SAFe and what solutions we have to offer.
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Introducing Our New Blended Perspectives Solutions!
Blended Perspectives is pleased to announce its new set of solutions! With our new solutions, we intend to generate better collaboration amongst teams across all organizations.
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