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4 New Jira Apps to Power up Jira Issues – Second Quarter 2019

August 29, 2019
#Jira
7 min

Whether you are a recent convert to Atlassian Jira or a power user, the Atlassian Marketplace list of Jira apps can be intimidating. Our quarterly selection of apps can be a great support for anyone looking to jump-start their collection.

You can try out the brand new apps released in the second quarter of 2019 we liked most:

Let’s see how these four add-ons can help you work more efficiently.

Create Confluence Custom Fields in Jira

You can use the Confluence Custom Fields app instead of just linking Confluence pages to Jira issues. With the help of this app you can use Confluence pages as data sources when you create new Jira issues. You just need to create some reference data in Confluence and after that go back to Jira and create and configure custom fields.

After that you can swiftly create new Jira issues and choose the required fields. This app also allows users to filter Confluence pages right in custom fields according to their requirements. Moreover, you can search for issues Confluence custom fields in JQL queries.

Check out this app to create a new custom field type Confluence Page Field.

Pricing: The Confluence Custom Fields app is free to use.

Plan Jira tasks wisely

Timeline for Jira helps you keep your team on the same page and effortlessly plan you tasks. Moreover, it can help you identify and prevent potential delays visualizing the overall progress of your project. This solution also allows you to see how many tasks each team member needs to fulfill. This way team leads can better understand if any of their team members is overloaded with work.

With the help of this app you can quickly create and manage informative timelines and use drag and drop to work with your issues faster. Timeline for Jira helps teams visualize work distribution and allocation.

Pricing: Timeline for Jira Server is free to use.

Prioritize Jira issues

If you want your team to focus on real company priorities, you can use Issue Score for Jira. This app helps you understand what to build next, boosts you team productivity and keeps things organized. Now you can rate and prioritize features to deliver more value to your customers with each release.

This add-on provides you with an easy to configure custom field to help product managers make better decisions.

You can easily prioritize features based on your key business metrics.

Pricing: The pricing for Issue Score for Jira Server starts from $25 for 25 users and ends at $3,000 for 10,000+ users.

Keep project contacts at hand

If you’re missing a capability to store project contacts right in Jira, you need to check out the Project Contacts app. This neat solution adds related contacts to Jira issues. Now you can easily import and export your project contacts.

This app helps you view contact information from multiple Jira issues right in project admin settings.

Pricing: The pricing for Project Contacts for Jira Server starts from $160 for 25 users and ends at $3,040 for 10,000+ users.

If you are looking for some new interesting solutions for Jira, you can make your life easier with the above mentioned Jira apps. All you need to do is give a look and pick the one that suits your needs.

Check out our previous blog post and see our selection of Jira apps released in the first quarter of 2019. Share your picks of the most interesting apps for Jira in the comments below.

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    3 New Bitbucket Apps to Take Care of Your PRs – Fourth Quarter 2018

    January 31, 2019
    #How To#Bitbucket
    7 min

    It can be a bit hard to keep up with all of the great new apps that appear on the Atlassian Marketplace every quarter. Luckily, we are doing the work for you and share our picks of the most interesting solutions for Atlassian products in our blog. This time we’ve chosen the most interesting apps for Bitbucket users released between October 1 and December 31.

    Check out our top 3 apps for Bitbucket Server:

    Here are the best Bitbucket apps released in the first, second and third quarters of 2018 you may have missed.

    You can also try Awesome Graphs for Bitbucket for free, this app helps you analyze the average time taken to resolve pull requests and build even more useful reports to visualize your team’s work. Learn more about how this solution can make your life easier.

    Pull Request Labels

    Pull Request Labels is an app that helps you assign labels to your pull requests to better organize your work on projects. For a big project with lots of contributors and pull requests, the capability to label PRs seems invaluable. This way all members of your team can get quick insights into a pull request seeing its state and purpose.

    After you created a label, you can use it for any pull request within the repository it is tied to signifying its priority or any other information you find useful. You can easily manage and edit labels staying on the pull request page by clicking the Edit button.

    So when you open a pull request and want your colleague to review it, you can now mark it with the Review Required label letting others know that your PR is ready for review. Just find the required label in the drop-down menu.

    You can check all labels related to the PR in the pull request table.

    This app is currently in alpha stage and its developer is planning to add more features in the nearest future.

    Pricing: Pull Request Labels is free to use.

    Prevent merge when needs work

    When you work with multiple reviewers on your pull requests, you may want to prevent merge in case one of your colleagues marks the pull request as ‘Needs Work. Prevent merge when needs work is an app that makes your merge operations easier.

    Now you can disable the Merge button when one of reviewers sets the Needs Work status on a pull request preventing the automerge.

    When one of your teammates commits new changes after approval, all approvals will be deleted.

    Pricing: Prevent merge when needs work is free to use.

    Pull request’s dependencies

    Pull request’s dependencies is a useful app if you are working on several separate projects in different Bitbucket repositories and need to make changes in one project that will later require an update to another project. Now you can create and add dependencies to all open pull requests choosing the type of dependency (blocking or non blocking).

    This app prevents you from merging PRs with open pull requests in dependencies. You can see the detailed list of related dependencies with their statuses.

    You can add several dependent pull requests from any project and repository. If you activate the Is blocker for merge option during this process, you can close the current pull request only when the linked one is closed.

    This app also allows you to remove any irrelevant dependencies.

    Pricing: The price of Pull request’s dependencies starts from $25 for 25 users and ends at $2,000 for 2,000 users.

    If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this blog post. Stay tuned and subscribe for email notifications about new posts in our blog – enter your email in the ‘Newsletter’ section on the sidebar.

     

     

     

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      3 New Bitbucket Apps to Stay on Top of Your Projects – Third Quarter 2018

      November 8, 2018
      #How To#Bitbucket
      6 min

      With so many apps for Atlassian products on the Atlassian Marketplace, it can be pretty tough to cover every solution out there if you want to power up your Bitbucket. That’s why we’ve taken the time to try out and recommend a couple of new apps for users who want to get the most out of their Bitbucket experience. Here is our top three apps appeared on the Atlassian Marketplace in the third quarter:

      You can also check our picks of the most interesting Bitbucket apps released in the first and the second quarters of 2018.

      Commit Graph for Bitbucket Server

      Commit Graph for Bitbucket Server appeared on the Marketplace in 2016 as a part of the paid PR-Booster app. Now it is an independent free add-on that helps you get a clear overview of commit activity across branches in a nice way so you can identify them quickly. This graph integrated into the Commits page allows your team correctly render octopus merges and orphan branches.

      You can easily filter and search user names, Jira tickets, and more. You will see the results in a condensed git graph.

      This app does not cache, persist, or index any data, works on large Data Center instances and is compatible with all branching strategies.

      Pricing: Commit Graph for Bitbucket Server is free to use.

      SonarCloud

      SonarCloud is a handy tool that helps you analyze your source code detecting the various issues that may influence the code quality. Moreover, this app supports all major programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, C/C++, and more.

      Powerful static code analyzers of the SonarCloud app help you track bugs and quality issues providing you with the overall picture of your code commit by commit. This apps allows you to detect and fix issues before they are merged into the master branch.

      The Sonar Cloud team will offer you a paid plan in case you need to run a private check for the closed source code

      Pricing: SonarCloud is free to use.

      Project Size List for Bitbucket

      Project Size List for Bitbucket is a tool that lets developers view all projects with their storage space (MB) used on the hard disk. Now you can sort your projects by size.

      You can create project tables in Bitbucket to list your repositories and projects including information about their size, forks, branches and branch permissions. This app also helps you search specific projects and repositories.

      If you want to get more information about your projects, for example, pull request and commits metrics, you can try out Awesome Graphs for Bitbucket. This app allows you to quickly evaluate the performance of your team and get the insights into your projects’ history and code quality.

      Pricing: Project Size List for Bitbucket is free to use.

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        5 New Add-ons to Get More Done in JIRA – Second Quarter 2017

        July 27, 2017
        #News#Jira
        11 min

        We at StiltSoft review the latest add-ons for Atlassian products every quarter of the year to provide you with the most useful extensions on the Marketplace.

        Last week we published the blog post about Top 5 new add-ons for Confluence. This time we have checked about 100 JIRA add-ons that had their first release during April-June 2017 and we are ready to share the most interesting ones with you.

        If for some reason you have missed our previous review, check the list of JIRA add-ons featured in the first quarter of this year.

        Today we present you with the five new add-ons for JIRA Server that can improve your work:

        Let’s take a closer look at each of these solutions.

        Cleaner for JIRA

        This add-on gives you a great chance to optimize your JIRA system. It scans the system, detects the unused elements that might affect your JIRA performance, and provides you with a range of possible improvements. So how does it work?

        Once you initiate the system diagnostics with Cleaner for JIRA, the scanner builds a model of your JIRA and outputs the list of the found issues to address.

        You can navigate through the tabs to view the details of scanning. This add-on provides you with the list of potential problems and possible solutions in each module of your issue tracking system.

        Moreover, Cleaner for JIRA optimizes your license usage and saves money because it easily detects inactive users. So you can quickly disable those who haven’t logged in within the last 3 months.

        Additionally, you can instantly identify the unused items in projects, issue types, issue type schemes, workflows, and screens. Cleaner for JIRA also checks whether custom fields have been appropriately scoped using contexts with the help of the deep-dive functionality.

        This tool lets you speed up the indexing time and easily browse through various configuration items.

        Pricing: The price of the add-on starts from $10 for 10 users and ends at $2400 for 10000+ users.

        Spectrum Timesheets

        Spectrum Timesheets is a time tracking tool that uses JIRA native worklog features. Note that the Timesheet builds the view based only on the issues where you have entered worklogs.

        You can easily configure a timesheet depending on your needs. This add-on allows you to track your activity outside of working hours.

        You can access the timesheet from the personal profile menu and filter the timesheet by projects, project categories, issues, and issue types. You can choose any timespan you need.

        One of the advantages of this add-on is that it allows you to add your worklog right from your timesheet view and manage non-working hours and days by pressing the plus sign for a specific day in the table.

        You can also find the plus sign near the OFF days section to track time on activities spent during non-working days.

        Besides the personal timesheet you can also get an all-in-one view for the selected users or projects to keep track on what your colleagues are working on.

        Pricing: The pricing for the annual license starts from $10 for 10 users and ends at $6000 for 10000+ users.

        Compact Cards for JIRA

        This add-on for JIRA might be essential for the teams who deal with an endless backlog because it reduces the size of backlog items and sprint cards. This tool allows more items and cards to be displayed on the screen.

        This add-on can be useful for the teams who have lots of work to display on the boards in JIRA. It is a nice solution if you want to track your activity on the project during daily meetings with your colleagues.

        Pricing: The add-on price starts at $10 for 10 users and and ends at $1000 for 10000+ users.

        Projects Organizer for JIRA

        This add-on works like a browser for your projects. So you can easily organize the existing projects and categorize them.

        Projects Organizer lets you group projects and keep them in the pre-defined hierarchy. The good thing is that you can add any number of groups with any nesting level.

        This add-on helps you filter the existing projects by group, lead, issue type scheme, and permission scheme. You can perform bulk operations with your projects: change their groups, categories, screen schemes, and other configuration parameters.

        This add-on is a handy tool to keep your project configurations in perfect order. You can browse the existing projects by groups and by leads.

        Pricing: The price of Project Organizer for JIRA Server is: $10 for 10 users, $15 for 25 users, $30 for 50 users and so on. For this price you’ll get a really wide range of capabilities for effective management of your projects settings.

        Reminder for JIRA

        Reminder for JIRA is an add-on to notify you of everything you might forget about. Feel free to create reminders for the tasks and issues that are important to you and your team.

        You can create quick reminders choosing today, tomorrow and so on with no need to choose the required date in your calendar.

        As a JIRA administrator you can overview the list of all existing reminders and easily remove any of them.

        Pricing: Reminder for JIRA from Teamlead is free to use.

        These were our top 5 add-ons of the second quarter of 2017. All add-ons from this blog post will help you to keep your information in JIRA in order and will definitely make your work more efficient. So go ahead and try them for free.

        If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this blog post.

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          Top-5 Add-ons to Enhance Your JIRA – First Quarter 2017 Review

          April 26, 2017
          #Jira
          1 min

          We at StiltSoft have a good tradition: every quarter we look for the most useful and functional products among new add-ons on the Atlassian Marketplace. And today we’re going to tell you about another batch of interesting solutions to make your JIRA better. These products appeared on the Atlassian Marketplace in the first quarter of 2017. Continue reading “Top-5 Add-ons to Enhance Your JIRA – First Quarter 2017 Review”

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            5 Add-ons to Boost Your Confluence – First Quarter 2017

            April 18, 2017
            #Confluence
            3 min

            2017 has already reached its quarter, and it’s time to introduce a new Top 5 of Confluence add-ons to you. All the solutions appeared on the Atlassian Marketplace in the first quarter of this year. We have examined around 40 add-ons published between January 1 and March 31 and selected the five tools that can help you to excel in Confluence.

            If you are for the first time in our blog we want to remind you that this is a regular series of blog posts. For the set of all add-ons featured in the past year, see our final post in 2016.

            The final listing for this quarter includes the following solutions:

            Well, let’s see what capabilities each add-on delivers to you.

            Continue reading “5 Add-ons to Boost Your Confluence – First Quarter 2017”

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