5 New Jira Apps to Work Agile – Second Quarter 2018

Last week we presented you with our Confluence favorites of the second quarter. We’re back this week with an all-new list of Jira apps for you to try. Plus, you can try the Jira apps released in the first quarter that may help your team work smarter. Check them all out and share your feedback with us.

In fact, so many Jira apps come out every month that it’s difficult to keep track of them all. However, every quarter we do the legwork for you and select the five apps we like best. So if you are looking for some new solutions to get more done in Jira, meet our list of the five new add-ons that will help you:

• Improve your customer service — Chat for Service Desk – Chats to Issues for Jira Server by Spartez.
• Create advanced profiles of your Jira users — Enhanced User Profile for Jira Server by Empyra.
• Boost your team productivity — Great Gadgets for Jira Server by StonikByte.
• Get a powerful tree display — Tree CustomField for Jira Server by Slie.
• Save time & money — Agile Retrospectives for Jira Cloud by Nearsoft Inc.

We’re certain that any and all of these apps will make your life easier, and help you get the most out of your Jira.

Chat for Service Desk – Chats to Issues

Chat for Service Desk – Chats to Issues allows you to integrate chat as an additional communication channel to Service Desk. When your customer starts a chat conversation, it automatically transforms into request and all new messages appear as comments in the Service Desk tickets. This handy app helps you keep all requests from your clients in one place.

This app perfectly works within the customer service portal, on mobile screens, and on external web sites. The agent issue view allows your team to interact with the customers from within Jira naturally. Now your customer service reps can determine when they are visible online letting your customers know when you are available for chatting.

You can maximally simplify the complex process of customer interaction with the help of this useful solution.

Pricing: The price of Chat for Service Desk – Chats to Issues for Jira Server starts from $1,000 for 25 users and ends at $8,000 for 10,000+ users.

Enhanced User Profile for Jira

Enhanced User Profile for Jira helps you smoothly perform bulk operations with user profiles. Now you can add and update your Jira users’ information and properties in bulk.

You just need to upload a CSV file that contains the required information about new or existing Jira users. This way you can add phone numbers, emails, location, time zones, and any other information you want to have at hand.

This app allows you to see the assignee and reporter details when you hover over the name of the user.

This add-on can be useful for the teams who need to quickly access their users’ information. This tool lets you save the time you usually spend to find the required user details and easily browse through various user profiles.

Pricing: The pricing for the Enhanced User Profile for Jira app starts from $65 for 25 users and ends at $1,320 for 10,000+ users.

Great Gadgets for Jira Server

Great Gadgets for Jira Server provides you with the eight useful tools you can add to your agile dashboard. It contains gadgets that allow your team to organize their work and track the overall progress of the projects helping team members work together in the most effective manner possible.

This app offers you five Agile gadgets that will help you better understand your development process, making releasing software easier. These gadgets allow you to:

• Track the completion of work throughout the sprint;
• Predict how quickly a team can work;
• Monitor velocity to ensure consistent performance over time;
• Ensure the flow of work across the team is consistent:
• Improve your team’s processes.

You can also use the time management tools this app has to assist you with managing time and making the most of it, for any business or personal situation.

Add this handy gadgets to your Jira dashboard to boost the productivity if your team.

Pricing: The price of Great Gadgets for Jira Server starts from $80 for 25 users and ends at $960 for 10,000+ users.

Tree CustomField

Tree CustomField is the app that allows you to see a tree display in your Jira tasks. This add-on allows you to easily create and sort options using the CustomField schemas. You can create as many options as you need and easily drag and drop them from one category to another.

Moreover, you can set one Tree Schema for different fields.

This app provides you with the single select and multi select field types.

Pricing: The price of Tree CustomField starts at $130 for 25 users and ends at $2,640 for 10,000+ users.

Agile Retrospectives for Jira

Agile Retrospectives for Jira is a customizable tool that helps you make your team collaboration more engaging. Every member of your team can create a Retrospective session and share it with the team. You can choose either to run an open retrospective or an anonymous session. The session consists of four stages:

• Think.
• Group.
• Vote.
• Discuss.

So once you’ve started the session, your colleagues can share their ideas on each column. If you have some ideas on the same topic, you can easily group them.

When you’ve grouped all the inputs, your team members can vote for the ideas they like best.

Now you can discuss the most voted topics and create action items based on your discussion and assign them to your colleagues. You can always come back to the session to review the progress.

This app helps you focus on what really matters for your projects at them moment.

Pricing: The Agile Retrospectives app price for Jira Cloud starts at $37/mo for 20 users and ends at $3,152.50/mo for 2,000 users.

These were our favorites in the second quarter of this year. We think that these apps can help you boost the productivity of your team. You can try any of them for free and make your own choice.

If we missed any great new Jira apps, tell us about them in the comments!

5 New Jira Apps to Work Smarter – First Quarter 2018

We’ve once again overhauled our picks for the best five Jira apps released in the first quarter of 2018, bringing you the true cream of the crop.

In case you are here for the first time, check out our previous Top five list of Jira apps. If you also use Confluence, you can take a look at our list of the five best Confluence add-ons of the first quarter of 2018.

So here is the list of our favorites that appeared in January-March 2018:

1. TodoMe for Jira Server by TeamSphere.
2. Doitbetter Calendar for Jira Server and Jira Cloud by Do it Better.
3. ReqFLO – Requirements Management for Jira Server by Deviniti (formerly InTENSO).
4. GoalFocus for Jira Server and Jira Cloud by Digital Toucan.
5. Skills-Radar for Jira Server and Jira Cloud by Frank Polscheit.
   

We are certain that any of these apps will help you get the most out of your Jira.

TodoMe for Jira

TodoMe for Jira is a useful tool that allows you to create and manage todo lists in your Jira instance. You can add personal tasks or assign them to other Jira users.

When you create a new task you can add labels, web links, priority, and more.

This app shows you a number of your open tasks for today on the Jira menu bar, so you can easily access them from any site in Jira.

By default, your todos are not linked to Jira issues or projects. They are created separately letting you add minor tasks that can be completed quickly. However, you can link your tasks to your current Jira issues. This way you can split your issue into some smaller todos.

You can create new projects in the TodoMe console to group the tasks (note that these projects will not be added to your Jira instance). You can also add comments to your tasks clicking the message icon next to the task.

This nice task management and collaboration tool practically redefines how your team works.

Pricing: The price of TodoMe for Jira Server starts from $140 for 25 users and ends at $2,800 for 10,000+ users.

Doitbetter Calendar

Having a well-organized calendar is crucial for knowing what you need to be doing. The Doitbetter Calendar can help you get all team members on track towards achieving your goals. You just create as many calendars as you need choosing the projects you want to display.

So this app visualizes your tasks according to the Event start you have chosen.

You can have a quick overview of any task right in the calendar view mode. You can also share your calendars with your colleagues and set access restrictions to users or groups.

This app for Jira Cloud allows you to add your calendar to the dashboard to always have it at hand. You can also easily drag and drop issues changing the Event start and end dates. These features are in progress for Doitbetter Calendar for Jira Server.

This useful tool allows you to stay connected and on the same page with your team with the help of different features packed inside it.

Pricing: The price for Doitbetter Calendar  for Jira Cloud starts at $6/mo for 20 users and ends at $332.50/mo for 2,000 users. You can contact the Do it Better team to learn the price for Jira Server.

ReqFLO – Requirements Management

Successful requirements are the key to delivering high quality products. The ReqFLO – Requirements Management app is a powerful tool for requirement management. It helps you visualize your current project issues as requirements (just click the Import Requirements button) or create new requirements in your projects.

You can easily change the position of any requirement in the tree using a smart drag & drop feature. This way you can prioritize the requirements starting the list from the most important one.

To make sure that all requirements are tested, you can use the traceability matrix.

This solution helps you tailor your Jira to your needs and workflows.

Pricing: The pricing for the ReqFLO – Requirements Management app starts from $100 for 25 users and ends at $16,000 for 10,000+ users.

GoalFocus

Staying focused on your goals can be hard when we have so much going on. Moreover, if you don’t write your goals, they stay in the abstract. The GoalFocus app can help you stay focused and organized. It allows you to set, track, and execute goals for sprints and projects.

You can fix all the steps you take to achieve your goal and track your progress. Your team can access the information about the set goals to stay up to date.

You can plan long-term initiatives and share progress with your stakeholders. So this tool can help you improve the productivity of your workforce and stay focused on what really matters at the moment.

Pricing: The price for GoalFocus for Jira Cloud starts at $28/mo for 20 users and ends at $770/mo for 2,000 users. For Jira Server the price starts from $50 for 25 users and ends at $10,000 for 10,000+ users.

Skills-Radar

The Skills-Radar is a powerful tool for HR management that helps you obtain a complete picture of your personnel development over the time and find the best matching tasks for your employees.

After installation of this add-on, every user receives access to the Skills and Proficiencies menu. The HR manager adds a list of different skills that can be required for various positions. Every user can rate him/herself accordingly.

Users can also take a test that measures their personality type. This information will help your HR department to better understand what kind of tasks can be assigned to each employee.

Every user can compare personal skills with some reference profiles set in the system.

When you create a new task, you can find the best matching job profile with the help of skill diagrams comparison (as demonstrated above). You just need to click the Assign by skills button. This way you can staff your projects with the right resources.

This app is a great solution if you want to identify the best skills and traits of each team member. It can also help you find some gaps your employees have and help them improve their skills.

Pricing: The price for Skills-Radar for Jira Cloud starts at $30/mo for 20 users and ends at $662.50/mo for 2,000 users. For Jira Server the price starts from $500 for 25 users and ends at $7,500 for 10,000+ users.

These were our five favorite Jira apps in the first quarter of 2018. Implementing any of these add-ons will definitely help you get your tasks done faster, better, and more easily. You can try any of them for free and make your own choice.

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5 New Jira Apps to Improve Team Collaboration – Fourth Quarter 2017

We have reviewed more than 100 new Jira apps of the fourth quarter 2017 and want to share our top five best tools with you. You can check our previous posts featuring Jira apps that appeared on the Atlassian Marketplace in the first, second, and third quarters of 2017.

Here is the new list of our favorites released in October-December of the past year:

• Google Doc, Sheet, Slide & Drive Embed for Jira Cloud by Heckr.
• Voice Recorder for Jira Server by Infosysta.
• Workflow Plugin Information for Jira Server by Steffen Stamprath.
• Apwide File Field for Jira Server by Apwide.
  
• Workboard for Jira Cloud and Jira Server by 2000BC.
  

Now let’s see how these useful solutions for Jira can help you improve your performance at work.

Google Doc, Sheet, Slide & Drive Embed

This app allows you to integrate your Google Drive documents with your Jira dashboards. So you can add any Google Doc, Google Slide, or Google Sheet to your current dashboard. Just click the Add gadget button, choose the Google Doc Embed Gadget for Jira, and paste the Google Doc link.

The coolest thing is that you can add both non-editable and editable versions of your documents to the dashboard. If you add a link that displays an editable version of your document to the gadget, you can edit it right in Jira or open it in Google Drive.

You can add as many gadgets as you need. These gadgets are draggable so you can easily rearrange them the way you want.

This useful tool helps you embed different checklists, presentations, and any other important information related to your project within any Jira dashboard. It enhances your team collaboration because now you can work together with your colleagues within one gadget with no need to leave your dashboard.

Pricing: The app price starts at $25/mo for 20 users and ends at $675/mo for 2,000 users.

Voice Recorder for Jira

This app for Jira Server lets you record voice messages and add them to any Jira ticket on the fly. You just click the Record Voice button and start talking to record your voice note.

The Voice Recorder app automatically adds your voice message to the attached files. You will also see the link to this file in the comments. Note that you might have to install some codecs to play the files in WAV format.

You can significantly improve your team performance with the help of this solution. Now you can record different instructions, ideas and quickly share them with your colleagues.

Pricing: The price of this add-on starts from $25 for 25 users and ends at $1,000 for 10,000+ users.

Workflow Plugin Information

Workflow Plugin Information will be useful if you install many add-ons to your Jira instance. It helps you check which plugin has installed post functions, conditions, and validators.

After installation of this tool, you will see one more column that provides you with the required information.

This simple tool provides you with the easiest way to get description of your apps during transition.

Pricing: Workflow Plugin Information for Jira Server is free to use.

Apwide File Field

While working with multiple files in Jira, you may face some problems when looking up for the necessary attachment. Apwide File Field can be a nice solution, if you want to improve your attachment management in Jira.

This app allows you to create additional custom fields to store documents in your Jira task. You can add one file per field and add as many fields as you need.

You can download files of different formats.

The files you upload to the custom fields are not stored in your attachments to avoid confusion. This helps you structure your documents. You can open and save them by clicking on the name of the required file.

This add-on also allows you to use the standard features of custom fields. For example, you can make the document mandatory in your workflow.

If you want to level up you attachment management and create categories with access restrictions for your project, perform bulk operations on several documents, or email files to your colleagues, you may like to try Smart Attachments.

Pricing: The pricing for the Apwide File Field app starts from $10 for 25 users and ends at $100 for 10,000+ users.

Workboard

The Workboard app is a handy tool with sophisticated features. It will make your life much easier helping you visualize and manage your sub-tasks on one useful board that shows all the sub-tasks connected to the issue in a row. You can add as many sub-tasks as you need right on the board.

The board provides you with a graphical indication when the issue contains description, attachments, and comments. If you need more detailed information just hover over the required icon.

The board provides you with the context menu both for your tasks and sub-tasks.

Your resolved issues will be moved to the bottom of the board for your convenience.

Get an instant overview of your work progress with the help of the Workboard app. There are dozens of cool features you’ll love: dynamic search, spring progress tracking, board filters, sprint effort and complexity tracking, inline and drag&drop issue edition.

Pricing: The price for this app for Jira Cloud starts at $15/mo for 20 users and ends at $405/mo for 2,000 users. For Jira Server the price starts from $200 for 25 users and ends at $3,000 for 10,000+ users.

We hope that you will find all these solutions useful for your team. What are your favorite productivity tools? Let us know in the comment section below.

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