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

[Webinar] The State of ITSM and Software Development

[Webinar] The State of ITSM and Software Development

With the advent of ITIL 4 more than ever, IT Support teams and Development teams are coming together to create value. This is being further propelled by research on the state of development from Atlassian who interviewed 2182 developers. 59% of teams operate “You Build It You Run It” models and its the big trend in development. We will further discuss these trends, as well as the challenge it poses for siloed enterprise processes and tools. George and I will recap integration use cases between IT support and ITIL processes and development teams further identifying winning strategies for creating value in organizations.

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[Webinar] Atlassian Team ’22 Recap and State of the Marketplace

[Webinar] Atlassian Team ’22 Recap and State of the Marketplace

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.

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[Webinar] Atlassian Integrations: A Practical Demo with yasoon’s Microsoft 365 for Jira – Feb 10, 2022

[Webinar] Atlassian Integrations: A Practical Demo with yasoon’s Microsoft 365 for Jira – Feb 10, 2022

Integrations are the largest market segment in the Atlassian Marketplace and grew by an impressive 30% over 2021.
Using our MARS™ database of 3rd party applications we’ll delve into where this growth is coming from, which tools users are choosing to integrate to (and which they’re not), and why effective integration between Atlassian and other products is more important than ever.

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[Webinar] Productivity in Confluence – October 21, 2021

[Webinar] Productivity in Confluence – October 21, 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.

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[Webinar] Time is Money – Why Time Management still matters for all teams

[Webinar] Time is Money – Why Time Management still matters for all teams

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.

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Issue Cross-Referencing Apps Webinar Recap

Issue Cross-Referencing Apps Webinar Recap

Our recent webinar was on Issue Cross-Referencing Apps. There are many reasons to link issues, and many ways to do so. Furthermore, issue-linking provides the foundational capability for many of our solution blueprints, from PPM to GRC and beyond. In this webinar recap we’ll go over all of the main points from the webinar such as the key use-cases for linking issues, third-party apps that provide this functionality, data catalogues, asset records in Jira, requests from Service Management, and the power and limitations of object graphing.

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Portal Webinar Recap

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

[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.

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Planning Webinar Recap

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

[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.

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Webinar – Portal Apps for Confluence and Jira – June 24, 2021

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] Planning planning planning! – June 10, 2021

[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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Whitepapers

A Round Up of Third Party Testing Apps for Jira Server – What’s the Secret Sauce for selecting the right solution for you?

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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SAFe Atlassian Style (Updated version with SAFe 4.5)

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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