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
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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.
Webinar – ITIL 4: The Promise vs The Reality
Watch this news breaking webinar Miles Faulkner and George Spalding discuss the evolution of ITIL 4 and Atlassian’s Jira Service Management. It’s been nearly a year now since we had Troy DuMoulin with us to discuss velocity across the enterprise and we wanted to revisit ITIL 4’s progress to date.
Webinar: Jira Align: Why It’s Such a Big Deal
Watch a conversation between Dan MacMillan, Director Channel Development and Miles Faulkner CEO, Blended Perspectives discussing the Align solution.
Jira Align is the premier Scaled Agile transformation application which works in harmony with Jira. We discuss the reasons why this solution is the tool of choice for enterprise transformations.
Webinar: BigPicture 8 Is Here! Improved Support for All Types of Planning in Enterprises
With only 1/3 of most companies IT as pure agile, hybrid planning modes are very important to ensure real time planning and portfolio management. Learn about the feedback from thousands of companies which led to this game changing new release of BigPicture 8.
Webinar: When you can’t see the forest for the trees – BlueCat’s evolving journey with Jira
As a development team scales up, Jira’s default ticket hierarchy (epic/story/sub-task) can lead to a project visibility problem: You can’t see the forest for the trees. Watch this webinar to learn how BlueCat visualizes their work, and tames scale and complexity.
Webinar: Agile ITSM Advanced Asset Management
With Atlassian’s acquisition of Mindville’s Insight, Atlassian is sending a signal that it is intent on becoming the leader in the ITSM and ESM space. This webinar covers how the Insight Asset Management solution works with Jira Service Desk, the future product plans Atlassian has for Insight, how Agile ITSM is changing enterprise performance velocity and the competitive landscape.
Webinar: Real-Time Portfolio & Project Management at Rogers – Client Case Study
This webinar is a case study of how Rogers moved from a fragmented approach for Project and Portfolio Management to a consolidated platform using Confluence, Jira and Jira Service Management along with the main planning engine: BigPicture by SoftwarePlant; other apps include Comalatech’s Document Management, Insight, Eazy BI and more.
Webinar – Cost Management in Jira Cloud – How to gain visibility into project costs, revenue, and overall health in Jira
Watch an webinar where we discuss discuss the Tempo Team how to use Tempo’s new financial tracking solution – Cost Tracker for Tempo Timesheets in Jira Cloud for fluid cost tracking.
Webinar – A detailed Review of Administration Apps for Atlassian
Watch our webinar to find out all about leading apps to help make the world of supporting Atlassian easier.
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
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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.