April 2023

You can potentially use Jira for light weight skills management but my recommendation would be to use a proper HR system for that.

#JiraUseCases #SkillsManagement

To avoid frustrations in your Jira roll out make sure you spend time on training and educating your teams on how to search in Jira because it is not intuitive at all.

#JiraCloud #Search

I think learning Forge could be a good skillset to acquire if you are an Atlassian Consultant or Developer. It might become the ScriptRunner for Cloud.

#AtlassianForge #ScriptRunner

Let me give you some idea about my YouTube earnings.

#YouTube #Earnings

I started using beamer and it is great however I wanted to change the colours, fonts and insert my company logo.

#Emacs #BeamerColours

I am extremely happy with intel NUC. It is a great little computer which you can use as a proper desktop.

#IntelNUC #NUC5i5RYH

I tried converting Org Reveal presentations to a PDF but I will stick to Org beamer for creating PDF based slides.

#Emacs #RevealtoPDF

In case you are looking for various beamer themes then these two links will immensely help you.

#Emacs #OrgBeamer

There are some really simple basic necessary features that should be added on Jira Cloud so that people can effectively use Jira for reporting and tracking progress.

#JiraCloud #Dashboards

Moving to Jira and not sure where to store meeting minutes? Use Comments field and may be create a dedicated multi line text area field.

#JiraCloud #MeetingMinutes

Personally I don't use emojis a lot but on Jira Cloud you can also create your own emojis. Could be useful. Give it a try.

#JiraCloud #CustomEmojis

I have started exploring beamer, although it is difficult to use in the beginning but it offers lot of options to create pdf based presentations.

#Emacs #OrgBeamer

Don't get confused when creating stories under an epic. Use Epic Link instead of Issue Link.

#JiraCloud #EpicLink #IssueLink

Often I am not able to complete my tasks, especially recurring task. I still mark those tasks as done but I don't log any time.

#Emacs #NotDoneRecurringTasks

Do you know that you can link your sprints to a Confluence page. It is nice simple feature in your backlog.

#JiraCloud #Confluence #Sprints

When using Inkscape for teaching and demos you may want to change the mode from text to select quickly. It is very easy.

#Inkscape #ChangeMode

It is very easy to transfer a bitbucket repository from one workspace to another.

#bitbucket #transferrepository

Often you need to delete an entire subtree and you can do that very easily with a simple shortcut.

#Emacs #DeleteSubtree

Zathura is a very nice simple fast pdf viewer but you can configure as per your needs.

#zathura #zathurarc

Lately I have been facing some problems with PulseAudio. Sometimes I get no sound after booting my computer. It is annoying and I am not able to fix the problem yet. Do you have any ideas?

#pulseaudio

Let your Jira users, especially leads and project managers know what permissions they have because when using Jira they may want to configure something but if they are not able to or couldn't figure out how then it can cause some frustration.

#JiraBestPractices #Permissions

You should be using pass which is one of the most simple and really good password manager.

#passwordmanager #pass

You can create your own anchors and bookmarks in your big document. It is easy but many people don't know about it.

#Confluence #DatabaseQueries

I have been using xournalpp for almost a year now and I must say it is absolutely amazing utility to sign a pdf and for annotations.

#xournalpp #annotatepdf

At Sparxsys apart from Jira we do other things as well and I am thinking of making videos on AWS. What do you think?

#JustTalk #AWS

Don't want to upgrade to Jira premium but still want to create hierarchy?

#JiraCloud #Hiearchy

Some of the org files were causing problems while loading and I had to manually change the mode to org but there is a better way to force it.

#Emacs #ForceOrgMode

Using xrandr you can have more than one monitor and you can also rotate them.

#xrandr #rotate

Project Administrators can create automation rules in their projects but you can control that.

#Automation #Permissions

Smart values: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/what-are-smart-v…

Unfortunately comments don't have change history in Jira and Atlassian have no plans to implement this feature.

#JiraCloud #CommentsChangeHistory

Apart from project roles and groups there is no real concept of Teams in Jira. Although you can create a team there is nothing much you can do with it.

#JiraCloud #Teams

I was not able to do voiceover earlier but I am glad that I was able to fix the issue by installing gst-plugins-good package.

#kdenlive #VoiceOver

I asked ChatGPT to code ffmpeg and Groovy scripts

You can create your own anchors and bookmarks in your big document. It is easy but many people don't know about it.

#ConfluenceCloud #Bookmarks

Searching based on cascade select list is not very obvious but it is surprisingly simple.

#GetAnswers #JQL

I quite like Jira Work Management features but there are some annoying limitations that I really want to talk about today.

#JiraCloud #JWM

As an Atlassian consultant you might be forcing Jira in situations where the existing tool or processes are fine and you may end up solving the wrong problems.

#JustTalk #DontForceJira

Don't forget that essentially Jira is an issue tracking tool and you can implement lot of use cases without using an app.

#JiraUseCases

Sometimes you may need to copy only the top most header or the visible text from one buffer to another in your org mode. It is very easy.

#Emacs #CopyVisibleText

You can use Inkscape as a whiteboard for handwritten notes and you can also go full screen.

#Inkscape #FullScreen #calligraphy

If you are starting to learn how to use Inkscape for vector graphics then you must learn how to create your own templates. It will make you super efficient.

#Inkscape #Templates

Doing your company accounts yourself can be daunting and it is not that easy but at the same time if you spend some time learning then it is worth it. FreeAgent can make lot of this easy.

#JustTalk #FreeAgent

I have lot of content in different formats which is a good thing but at the same time it is unmanageable now for me, so now whenever I make a video I make sure I write about it first.

#Emacs #VideoStrategy

If you have to go to VFS office for an Indian passport renewal or visa then I do have some tips for you.

#HCILondon #VFS

As a Jira consultant you are responsible for making rolling out Jira a success but don't just focus on the strict configurations and tight processes.

#JiraBestPractices #JiraBureaucracy