Monthly Archives: March 2023

An Unexpected Journey – the draw.io Adventure Continues! (draw.io Adventures in Diagramming, Part 2)

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If you’re a fan of role-playing games, today’s your day: because today the 2nd part of our adventure around four mismatched heroines and heroes who have been catapulted from a meeting in their game development company into a magical world where a king is asking for their help, is on! What will the team decide to do – and what’s the big deal anyway? Plus, expect our Diagram Inspiration of the Week and tips on how visualization can solve other problems using draw.io….

An Unexpected Journey – The draw.io Adventure Begins! (draw.io Adventures in Diagramming, Part 1)

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RPG fans and those who want to become one, watch out: Here we go! The unexpected journey of four disparate heroines and heroes starts in the offices of a company somewhere in the USA… Dive into the world of role-playing games, follow a team of four normal people (at least in the beginning) and get suggestions and tips from the draw.io team about diagrams, whiteboards and the best “Lord of the Rings” meme ever!

Manage Your Jira Data Center Instance Wisely With Guardrails

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In late June of 2022, Andrzej Kotas, a product manager for Jira Data Center, announced to the Atlassian community an exciting development in documentation and recommendations for Data Center deployments of Atlassian Tools. The post introduced Jira and Confluence guardrails. In today’s blog, we’ll go over the list of guardrails for Jira.

The WSJF Method for Prioritizing Work – and Integrating It in Jira with Awesome Custom Fields

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As a rule, tasks and work need to be prioritized before they are scheduled for processing. Some less experienced teams might intuitively think that prioritizing a backlog is not a big deal: a simple discrete order seems to be a good approach. But as soon as things get a bit more complex, it fails. For larger scenarios, the WSJF method offers a proven alternative. Here is an introduction along with a way to map the WSJF in Jira.

An Unexpected Journey: Taking Teamwork with Diagrams (and draw.io) to a Magical Level!

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Do you know the movie “The Gamers” or are you familiar with “Pen & Paper” or “Role Playing”? If yes, this article is just right for you! If not, this article is also for you – because the draw.io team takes you on a journey into the world of adventure, magic, fantasy and heroines! In this new series of blog articles, you’ll have the chance to take part in quests alongside some atypical characters and learn about new finesses of diagramming.