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Announcing our Jira integration

Jira is one of the most popular task management products available today, and for good reason: it's been around for a long time. The team at Atlassian is constantly working to improve the way users can utilize their software, but for a long time if you wanted to integrate with Jira as a developer, your options were generally limited to the Jira API.

Distributed By Design: Building connections across the globe

One of the biggest challenges in a distributed-by-design company where people work from three different regions (Americas, Europe-Middle-East-Africa, and Asia-Pacific) is staying connected. Here’s an overview of ways we tackle it both company-wide and within teams.

Vue.js and Node.js tutorial: a realtime collaboration app hosted in Azure Static Web Apps

This post describes how I built a realtime collaboration app that scrum teams can use for planning poker. Planning poker, also known as Scrum poker, is a gamified technique for estimating the size of user stories. This helps in deciding how many stories can be put into a sprint. Usually story points in the Fibonacci scale is used as a metric, but T-shirt sizing, like small, medium, and large, is also used.

Right Inbox: Simplified Email Outreach

With over 1.8 billion users, Gmail is the most popular email service in the world. The platform is great in many ways, but it also falls short in a few strategic places. That’s particularly true if you want to use it for commercial purposes. Gmail is simply not streamlined enough for busy professionals like salespersons and recruiters who send and receive hundreds of emails every day. Thankfully, there are extensions developed to bridge the vital gaps professionals face when using Gmail.

OmniTestingConf: "Native Quality Management with Jira & Xray" - Nicolas Rica

✅ A quick overview of Xray Test Management - cutting-edge test management app for Jira. 🚀 Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus.

Keep an audience engaged with interactive realtime features

Livestreams allow an online audience to come together and watch a video broadcast in realtime. Globally, uptake has soared since 2020 as people come together to experience live sports and arts events; and to work, learn and play. The popularity of livestream entertainment is, in part, down to how it includes the audience. Integrated chat and other features allow viewers to interact -- with each other and the host.

Median: Consumer Support at Its Finest

Even though the pandemic has started to ease, numerous business houses are still opting to function virtually. Now, while maintaining a strong virtual presence, one of the major problems that organizations have to deal with is customer retention. Although websites can be used to intrigue and draw in consumers, managing and retaining them is solely dependent on the organization’s customer support system.