Jira Software, the number one software development tool

Whether you are part of a team of five or five thousand, Jira helps centralize and simplify work management in one place. If you're not familiar with all of Atlassian's products, know that the Jira family of solutions has opportunities for every business team: the Agile software team, the customer service team, and the marketing team. power2Cloud, as an Atlassian partner, is here to walk your organization through this journey and provide advice, support, and training. Jira Software is undoubtedly Jira's most popular product, perfect for managing work, planning, monitoring and developing level software. Think of Jira as a to-do list available to all colleagues, useful for keeping track of goals and deadlines. Who uses Jira Software? Any type of team, but it is especially in demand among those in software development, such as developers, project managers, and scrum masters.

What is Agile methodology?

Before delving into the functionality and use of Jira Software in detail, we want to dwell on the methodology. Atlassian products in fact work from an Agile perspective, an aspect that we will never tire of promoting and that we have made our own within the power2Cloud team as well. It is an iterative approach for project management, as for software development, that generates immediate added value, allows us to offer flexible and timely responses to market changes or customer feedback. Instead of putting all its eggs in the project delivery basket, an Agile team assigns and monitors requirements, plans, and deliverables by continually evaluating them to push people to adopt a useful approach and go through change without too much headache. Unlike the traditional "waterfall" approach, in fact, the Agile mode leverages feedback loops and continuous improvement, asking teams to collaborate cross-functionally. Although the project manager usually prioritizes tasks to be delivered, the team can self-organize with granular tasks and assignments. Open communication, collaboration, flexibility and trust among team members are at the heart of the Agile way of working. That's why one of the core values is putting people first: collaborating with customers and teammates is more important than rigid, predefined processes to follow, providing a solution to a customer problem more effective than hyper-detailed documentation.

Jira Software what is it for?

Using agile processes and tools without understanding them can lead your team to ineffective processes, which is why power2Cloud can guide you on this path. With Jira Software you can immediately improve your team's production processes with agile principles and methodologies. Here are some of the key features that teams particularly value for effectively completing team work: ticket and project tracking prioritizing the most important work items improves work efficiency streamline the week's planning by visually seeing incoming work find answers and ask questions about your work tasks stay up-to-date on your team's work offer scalability to your projects adopt flexible scheduling create automations to manage your workload use a compliance-friendly product leverage Jira Software integrations with Atlassian products (Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket) and lots of tools you use every day, thanks to a rich Marketplace Analyze real-time data to improve your team's performance To achieve these goals, how does Jira Software work? Agile boards. Integrated into every project are Agile Kanban and Scrum boards that allow teams to visually move, just by drag and drop, their work from start to finish, of course adapting to the team's methodology and custom information. Workflow engine. Each team has a unique process for developing software. Jira Software has out-of-the-box workflows for teams to work through, with the opportunity to create specific processes, view approvals and statuses. Release management. The integrated release hub aggregates version tracking information, providing visibility and security to meet deadlines. Jira's reporting tracks key software development metrics in real time and provides analysis on velocity and burndown to help teams improve their agile practice.

Jira Software grows with your needs

To get started you have two opportunities, choose Atlassian's Saas offering in the cloud or self-hosted server installation, with which Jira Software can help you grow, adapting to your needs and requirements. Let's look at them together: Jira Software Cloud If you are a growing organization, the Premium and Enterprise editions of Jira Software offer additional features that help teams scale their agile processes and improve administrative capabilities to meet security requirements. If you are interested in migrating from your server instance to the cloud the power2Cloud team can assist you. 2. Jira Software Data Center. Large enterprises and business teams with stringent regulatory and compliance requirements can scale their server instance with Jira Software Enterprise Data Center (or DC). Data Center products are self-hosted and enable increased performance and disaster recovery through additional server nodes, and advanced features such as project archiving and audit logging to help administer larger instances. Ask our experts for more information. power2Cloud, an Atlassian partner, can help you get started with Jira Software right away.