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Top 5 Sprint Metrics to Report to Your Stakeholders
If you are leading or working on an Agile team, you will most likely need to communicate progress and status…

How to Optimize Your Software Builds Using Gradle Enterprise
Creating a deployable software package from source code, commonly known as the software build process, is critical for any software…

What Does an Atlassian Cloud Migration Cost?
If your organization relies heavily on Jira, Jira Align, or other Atlassian products, you already know that Atlassian’s support for…

SAFe® 6.0 Deep Dive – SAFe Scrum
According to the latest release of SAFe®, “SAFe Scrum is an Agile method used by teams within an ART (Agile…

SAFe® 6.0 Deep Dive – The New SAFe Practice (NOT Program) Consultant
Upon its release early in 2023, SAFe® 6.0 brought about several changes to the framework, one of which may be…

What is Jira Expressions and Why Does it Matter?
When does a relatively obscure coding language become important to the C-suite of an international, multi-billion dollar enterprise? When we’re…

Is Measuring Velocity in Scrum Good or Bad for Your Team?
Throughout the past few years, the Velocity metric seems to have become a polarizing element among Agile teams due to…

ITSM and DevOps: Friends or Foes?
Speaking to purists on both sides, you could easily come away believing that IT service management (ITSM) and DevOps are…

What to Expect When You Migrate Off of Atlassian Server
As February 15, 2024, draws nearer, it's essential to take action and begin the process of migrating from Atlassian Server…

Pillars of Engineering Management: How Foundational Engineering Practices Drive Business Success
The engineering industry is constantly evolving. Staying ahead of the curve requires a deep understanding of emerging trends and technologies.…

How to Manage Unplanned Work in SAFe?
At the time of this writing, which is early-2023, Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) remains the most popular framework in use…

Atlassian Server End-of-Life — So What?
Most of the organizations that use Atlassian solutions, (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jira Align, and more) have come to rely on…