Author: Alex Carter
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What’s In Store for Microsoft Azure in 2023
Microsoft Azure continues to be a leading contender in cloud technology, and its ability to adapt and advance in the face of recent industry changes continues to impress. The fact that Microsoft has its own suite of flexible tools (and the ability to use powerful integrations to expand capabilities) doesn’t hurt either. For example, it’s…
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Why is Jenkins still so popular in 2023?
Jenkins was initially built to catch any bugs in the code before anything was submitted to the repository and was designed to perform Continuous Integration (CI) by automating tests to code as changes were being made. It’s also a great tool if your team uses Jira for project management, as Jenkins and Jira can easily…
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7 Tips to Get the Most Out of Miro
Miro, a digital whiteboard, can help teams co-create, ideate, and make meetings more meaningful with interactive brainstorming. It helps visualize concepts, can act as sticky notes, and is excellent for tracking ideas. Miro offers voting capabilities, sticky note visuals, timers, and more, making it a handy, flexible tool to bring teams together, spark conversation, and…
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Guide to Connect Bitbucket and Jira
In this blog post, we’ll go over some basics for getting started with the Jira Git integration apps. I’ll be using specifically Jira-Bitbucket Integration, but the other ones (such as for GitHub for Jira and GitLab for Jira) behave similarly. Once installing the app, the first thing to do is to go to the config…
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How to Check the GitHub Status of Your Projects
GitHub is an excellent platform for software developers as it allows teams to work on projects of all sizes but to divide the work into easy, manageable tasks, each of which needs to be vetted before being pushed live. As a team member and a project manager, it’s always essential to know the status of…
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Why Development Teams Need Time Tracking Software
Software development can be tricky for clients or even management to understand. A lot of human effort goes into coding and design. Yet, only some of it is visible to stakeholders until a tangible deliverable is presented. That only happens after many, many hours of work. If you manage a development team, you understand the…
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5 Best Continuous Integration Tools for DevOps in 2023
Continuous integration helps teams increase their development speed while ensuring code quality. With continuous commits of code released in tiny increments, items can more easily be built and tested before being merged into the shared repository. Continuous integration is excellent for development projects that remain open and ongoing as teams continue to refine products and…
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Top 5 best Microsoft Teams Integrations for Jira
Since Microsoft applications are pretty ubiquitous – especially in enterprise-level organizations, Teams is often leveraged as a communication tool to help teams communicate on projects and objectives. However, teams also need a platform that can handle project management and help everyone keep on top of tasks and deliverables, and many use Jira. Ideally, teams need…
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Top 5 Best Slack Integrations for Jira
Many organizations use Slack for team communication and Jira for project management and handling issues with ongoing software. However, having two separate platforms can become confusing when both are meant to communicate what needs to be done and what has already been actioned. The solution: link the two together! The great thing about both Slack…