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Best JIRA Practices for Admins

 A series of factors is considered for effective usage of JIRA Software. However, it is always recommended to know the best practices before working with JIRA Instances. It will be helpful for a beginner or even an experienced professional to gain knowledge from it. Be Smart in Custom Field Creation As any Jira occurrence develops and reaches out to different regions, the requirement for new custom fields is much of the time basic. In any case, having such a large number of custom fields can soak up our occurrence . To lay out a normal measure in specific circumstances, we give you a few boundaries:: Make custom fields as long as framework fields are not proper, attempt to make them as nonexclusive as could really be expected so others can reuse them, don't make fields with a custom name like XYZ Options, and utilize a custom field called Options. Try not to copy custom field names, this can create some issues while performing JQL searches or fostering any sort of cont

Improving on Time Tracking in JIRA

 At least 90% of humans incorrectly underestimate how long tasks will take to complete. We consistently predict wrong timings to time activities and work.  Whether at work, at home,or school, we need improvement in prediction of time. There's even a name for this cause: it's known as the ‘Planning Fallacy. It was coined by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in their 1979 paper.  As indicated by Kahneman's book one research showed that most homeowners expect home restoration tasks to cost about $19,000, though the genuine expenses is nearer to $39,000. Same goes for rail transportation budgets and estimation. What Causes The ‘Planning Fallacy’ ? Increasing Scope :- As the project starts in real time, most additional features are also added, increasing the scope and time. Unutilized Experience :- People often do not account for their past experiences while doing a similar work .  Optimism :- People have an inherent trait of natural optimis

Best Practices for Atlassian Merge Migration

 Merging two Atlassian instances is a sophisticated task and businesses must learn simple yet effective practices before embarking on this initiative. Disable Default Configurations The first and foremost step whilst migration is to step away from the default schemes. That’s applicable for any instance, JIRA or not. One may run into problems when different JIRA instances come together which can affect performance and reliability. Hence, default schemes are the first we observe in an organization and we suggest to move them off before migration procedure initiates. Tools Upgradation The second best practice is to upgrade to the latest version of tools. When one migrates to the cloud, it gets automatically switched to the latest version of the tools.  It may happen that the upgraded version of a tool is different from what it has on the server,  but still it will be much closer to the cloud version. Moving to recent versions is a standard process before migration