Whitepapers and Webinars
Since many organizations use Jira for their project execution it makes a great deal of sense to leverage Jira to manage your overall Portfolio rather than buy yet another software solution and pay for an expensive integration.
Advanced real time portfolio, program and project management solutions can be rapidly and cost effectively set up for all your needs.
Webinars
Portal Webinar Recap
We recently ran a webinar on Portal apps for Jira and Confluence. Portal apps can be key to bringing context to work for role-workers and helping individuals feel a sense of orientation, especially in large corporate settings. Here’s a recap of all of the main points from the webinar:
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[Webinar] All Things Marketplace- 2021 Highlights – July 22, 2021
Who are the movers and shakers, a special segment on Appfire, and the implications for customers and vendors? This webinar will cover all major categories of the marketplace including category leaders, analysis of free vs. paid, the most interesting use cases. We will be highlighting fast-moving categories and apps which will help organizations understand better how best to leverage their Atlassian investment.
Planning Webinar Recap
At Blended Perspectives, we’re keen to share our extensive knowledge on all things Atlassian through our webinars and we’re very happy that so many of you choose to join us both live and on-demand. However, we also recognize that in the busy work day many would be viewers struggle to find an hour to set aside. Therefore, from now on all of our webinars will be accompanied by a brief summary that covers all of the key points so no one has to miss out.
Our recent webinar was on “Planning! Planning! Planning!”. Planning is a hugely significant category and we thought that it was about time for a recap, especially with recent developments–in particular Jira Work Management. Here’s our summary of all of the main points from the webinar:
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[Webinar] Issue Cross-Referencing Apps – July 08, 2021
There are many reasons to link issues, and many ways to do so. To use Insight or not? Customers still often ask this question. Issue-linking provides the foundational capability for many of our solution blueprints, from PPM to GRC and beyond. We will review many of the key use-cases for linking issues and third-party apps that provide this functionality. We’ll cover data catalogues, asset records in Jira, requests from Service Management, and the power and limitations of object graphing.
Webinar – Portal Apps for Confluence and Jira – June 24, 2021
Join us for a review of portal technologies for Atlassian-based environments, answering what can be a surprisingly tricky question: how role-workers can get into context to work.
Jira & Confluence are the platforms of choice for over 60,000 organizations. Worldwide, millions of knowledge workers use customized Atlassian workspaces tailored to their departmental and teams’ needs.
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[Webinar] Linchpin – your work HQ
Join us for a tour of Linchpin and the upcoming Linchpin Cloud – social personalized intranets that extend Confluence to coordinate larger teams, bring in the voice of corporate communications, and much more.
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[Webinar] Planning planning planning! – June 10, 2021
It’s been a while since we covered planning but it was one of our most successful webinars. So we’re gonna give you an update. There been a lot of developments in the category. The most notable being Jira Work Management. We will be doing a comprehensive review of JWM and it’s role vs. 3rd party planning apps. We have some interesting conclusions which suggest a powerful combination of both JWM and heavy-weight planning apps is the best strategy. We will also cover the latest developments in Jira Align.
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[Webinar] Atlassian Team 21 event recap
Watch a quick overview of all the announcements from Team 21 and highlight the most important news from around the Atlassian world.
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[Webinar] Integrated ITSM – Beyond JSM – April 15, 2021
Watch our Integrated ITSM – Beyond JSM webinar. We will show how Service Management can be a fully “enmeshed” capability with other enterprise processes.
Webinar – Atlassian Apps Category Report – Confluence – April 1, 2021
Watch this webinar on Confluence as a collaboration and documentation platform. What are the most popular apps? What are the fastest growing apps? What are some of the most important use cases? Understanding these questions will help you understand whether you’re getting the most out of your Confluence platform.
Webinar – An In Depth Review of Integration Apps for Jira
As the fastest growing category on the Marketplace, Jira users are increasingly recognizing the time saving and productivity boosting potential that integration applications have. In this category report we outline the wide array of integration apps available to Jira users while also giving our take on the most popular and fastest movers in this space.
Webinar – Accessibility + more for Atlassian Products
This webinar highlights one main use case – accessibility using Unstoppable from Addteq. Making Jira and Confluence more accessible to all users is very important because by law in many jurisdictions it must be so on public and internal web sites; so why not Atlassian?
Webinar – Accelerate Your Cloud Journey
Watch our webinar to learn how to accelerate your Atlassian Cloud journey. At Blended Perspectives, we regularly perform much more complex migrations: supported and unsupported apps, custom workarounds, data clean up, and of course, finally getting you to the cloud. If you’re considering migrating to Cloud, you’ll be able to learn from our experience including tips and tricks.
Webinar – Risky Business? Launching a Fully Integrated Enterprise GRC Solution
Watch our webinar to learn about the Blended GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) solution based on the Atlassian Jira and Confluence platforms. Synthesis GRC includes full functionality including risk management, compliance functionality, control management, extensive reporting, audit support and self service portals for compliance and security attestations.
Webinar – Atlassian Product Portfolio: The Changes, The Present and The Future
Watch our webinar for a reader’s digest of all the changes in the Atlassian world plus the major acquisitions and moves in the app marketplace. There is no doubt that Atlassian is moving to a cloud first future.
Whitepapers
A Review of Reporting Apps for Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket
For many customers, the Atlassian Marketplace offers a dizzying array of options. Our category reports help you navigate your way through all the choices. This unique category report on Reporting apps covers the key players, their market share, a model to understand the space, and several key use cases.
A Review of Scripting & Automation Apps for Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket
This unique category report on “Scripting & Automation Apps” covers the key players, their market share, a model to understand the space, and a few use cases. It also provides a recommended approach and tips for best practices.
Planning Apps in Jira – A Detailed Update – October 2019
It’s been nearly a year since we first started collecting Market place data and we wanted to celebrate by providing a report on the state of the planning category for Jira apps. Our take on this category is of course that it’s a good idea to support multiple planning approaches; Agile Scrum/Kanban, Waterfall, and Scrumfall.
ESM State of the Market and the Case for “Nimble” Service Desk Technology
This paper discusses the rise of “Enterprise Service Management”, why it matters and why it’s important for enterprises to ensure they ride this productivity wave.
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.
How Project & Portfolio Management systems succumbed to the triple constraint & What to do about it…
This brief paper will explain how planning systems have evolved or succumbed, if you like, to the triple constraint, which is such a core principle of planning itself.
Optimizing Scrum – Fall Whitepaper
This brief paper will walk the reader through our thinking around how to make the best of “Scrum-Fall” (Scrum blended with Waterfall), which is sometimes a necessary evil in “big” IT
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.
Taming The Many Headed Hydra – Portfolio Management with Atlassian
Integrated milestone tracking and dependency management becomes a major administrative task.
Managing What Matters – One Pager
Manage what matters
Confluence vs. Sharepoint – as a General Purpose Intranet, for non-Software Development use
A Blended Perspectives legal client had an initial user base working in SharePoint Wiki 2010 and was experiencing significant challenges when contributing content. They were concerned that such challenges may inhibit further engagement on the site. This paper compared Confluence 5.2 with Sharepoint 2010.
Architecting Jira for the Enterprise
Jira is a tremendously powerful product, both very flexible and highly configurable. This configurability is one of Jira’s great strengths yet its also a potential weakness if not managed properly.
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