Webinar: When you can’t see the forest for the trees – BlueCat’s evolving journey with Jira

September 14, 2020

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. In this webinar, you’ll learn how BlueCat visualizes their work, and tames scale and complexity.

Learn how they:

  • Define a project hierarchy
  • Bring structure to chaos
  • Slice and dice a project for reporting


Blended Perspectives is an Atlassian Solutions Platinum Partner with experience across various industries and organizations. For over 13 years our certified experts have been providing a full range of services and innovative, cost-effective Agile, Scrum, and Scaled Agile solutions built on Atlassian products – for I.T. and beyond. Our unique, solutions-based offering, is powered by a proprietary set of templates and patterns, tailored to each business practice, process, and complexity, enabling our clients to grow and achieve peak efficiency. We have deep technical skills in all things Atlassian and are also a certified Atlassian Training partner.

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