It’s finally here! Spring has sprung. I think this time of year is like no other. There is a palpable feel in the air to do something. Go somewhere! Plant something! Start a project! You might even whistle as you walk[...]
Read MoreHow to Inspire Competition
When you think about competition, what usually comes to mind? Is it a college football game? The Settlers of Catan board game? Isos successfully competing for #1 on Atlassian Solution Partners (sorry that I'm not sorry[...]
Read MoreHey Slack, Shut up and let me work - Part 2
This is the second blog post in a three part series on how I use Slack. I debated on whether or not this should be Part 2 or Part 3. If you are not willing to change your configuration without understanding why and how[...]
Read MoreJira Gore - Click Fiesta
Hello there. I’m Lianna Kong and I’ve been a Jira administrator for a very long time. Over ten years, I’ve worked in the Atlassian environment with multiple companies. Today, I’ll introduce you to Jira Gore where[...]
Read MoreEnhancing the Help Text in Jira Service Desk (JSD)
Jira Service Desk allows project administrators to customize the customer portal to include branding, adding custom icons and inputting descriptions for request types.
Read MoreProForma and its Amazingness
Thinking of how difficult it is to maintain custom fields in Jira? Imagine you had a form with 40 new custom fields! Well, have a look at what ProForma has to offer, such as being available for Jira Software, Core &[...]
Read MoreGenerating a List of All Project Leads/Admins with Groovy
Welcome back to another blog where I will share some code to help optimize your time as a Jira Admin. My aim is to save you the hassle of having to manually search the Jira UI in order to find the data you need by using[...]
Read MoreG.I. Agile: Defining Agile for the Federal Government
By Bob Wen
In October of 2018, the Department of Defense did a few things unprecedented in the Agile development space. The Defense Innovation Board released a document for open publication and review providing[...]
Read MoreChromebook for Atlassian Consulting - Part I
My professional desktop computing journey...
Over the past 25 years of my professional IT life, I have bebopped between a Linux, Mac OS X (MacOS) and Windows desktops. However, in the past 10 years I would have to say[...]
Read MoreThe Root of the Matter
Many times a person or a team will request something that works just for them. It’s a process, a field, or a status that’s specific to their team’s workflow. In these cases it’s important to get more information about[...]
Read MoreSpark Joy
I’m not sure what planet you live on if you have not heard of Marie Kondo and her “Tidying Up” Netflix series or her book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing”. It is[...]
Read MoreHow to manage time while working from home
Working from home gives you the freedom to work whenever you want, but you need to learn what tools you find helpful to manage your time. Below are some quick tips to keep you on track!
Read MoreManifest Post Procesor: The Missing Manifest
We here at Isos are big fans of Ansible and HashiCorp Packer. We use these tools (among others) to build pipelines that create custom images (including AMIs) for many of our Data Center implementations. During this[...]
Read MoreHow to Use Vagrant's Multi-Machine Setup to Run Multiple Apps at Once
In previous blogs I've mentioned how much we love Ansible here at Isos. One of the ways we develop and use our internal roles is via a Vagrant Multi-Machine setup. This multi-machine setup allows us to spin up multiple [...]
Read MoreIntroduction to Women In Tech History - Ada Lovelace
Read More“When [women] have been written out of the history, [girls] don’t have great role models. But when you learn about the women who programmed ENIAC or Grace Hopper or Ada Lovelace … it happened to my[...]
Intuitiveness and Role in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Development Process, User Experience
Intuition is a powerful perceptual tool that we utilize daily in unfamiliar terrain. Our intuition is mainly based on prior experiences in similar situations that we create assumptions from. When it comes to interacting[...]
Read MoreOpsgenie is not an island
If you’ve started looking into Opsgenie, you are probably already aware of the powerful alerting, escalation management and reporting that it brings you. And if you haven’t started looking yet, head over to the Opsgenie[...]
Read MoreA Boy and His Wall
With a new office comes customizations of every kind to make employees comfortable and exited to come to work, as well as hosting clients and other people who might come to visit us. The past two offices we've been[...]
Read MoreWhen your world gets turned upside down… in a good way!
The week started off like any other, nothing crazy or different. That was until we received a phone call that our emergency dog fostering services were needed. Let me back up a bit and explain how we got here. I am[...]
Read MoreField Behavior
When it comes to fields, it is usually sufficient to select which ones will appear on a given screen but Jira administrators have other options available to them. Administrators have the ability to hide fields if they[...]
Read MorePeople, Practices and Culture at Summit
Confluence, Atlassian, Culture, Atlassian Summit, Trello
This year I had the pleasure of attending the Atlassian Summit in Las Vegas. There were many tracks and topics available. I made sure to mark the most interesting talks on my handy dandy Atlassian Events App. One track[...]
Read MoreUsability, HCI and Isos
Software Development, Technology
Hello World! This is Nick Nader, and I recently joined the Isos Technology team as a solution engineer.
Read MoreHey Slack, Shut up and let me work - Part 1
I have been obsessed with reducing the amount of noise I'm presented with on a daily basis. This includes:
Read MoreHow to Find Just the Right App - An Escapade in the Atlassian Marketplace
Atlassian, Jira, Atlassian Add-Ons
"Easy... Secrets? Wait. What's that?... Oh, oh, ok. Excuse me. So it's Easysecrets, one word? Got it, but still. You've got to be kidding me!"
As a trusted, Platinum Atlassian Partner we get asked all the time for input[...]
Read MoreWhy JavaScript Isn't as Bad as Some People Say
JavaScript is the second most popular programming language of 2019, according to StackOverFlow. 95% of all websites use it. And if a website doesn’t use it, it’s generally going to be a boring website. Despite its[...]
Read MoreTales from the [Digital] Crypt: Collaborative Editing on a Synchrony Cluster
by Carlos Vasquez
One of the powerful new features introduced with Confluence 6.0, collaborative editing, allows multiple users to edit a document together in real-time. Under the hood, the Synchrony service keeps tabs[...]
Read MoreThe Case of Crypto-Confluence
This post was co-authored with Bob Wen.
It's very rare that we get to write in the style of our favorite blogger, Dr. John Watson, but something happened this week that seemed like it leaped out of the pages of The[...]
Read MoreUsing pgadmin4 to Inspect a PostgreSQL Database on a Vagrant Box
Summary
I've been working on some onboarding exercises here at Isos Technology where I'm tasked with getting familiar with how we deploy and customize Atlassian applications. As part of this, I thought it would be a[...]
Read MoreUsing Jupyter Notebooks to Add Perforce Repositories to FeCru
In my last blog post we used a Jupyter notebook to create a custom report from a Jira server. It turns out connectivity to Atlassian apps doesn't stop at Jira. Today we are going to use the same script creation and[...]
Read MoreMoving Beyond "The Three Questions"
This post was co-authored with Bob Wen.
"What is your name?...What is your quest?..."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A practice that most teams adopt from Scrum is the Daily Standup or "Daily Scrum". In this[...]
Read MoreNew HR Slack Channel
I needed a quick way to communicate with our employees.
Read MoreOld Epics Don't Die. Here's How They Fade Away.
By Bob Wen
As teams begin to work in an Agile fashion, dividing up work into smaller batch sizes so that it fits in smaller iterations, many business stakeholders wonder about whether the broader themes that they want[...]
Read MoreCommon Jira Administration Errors - Workflows and Resolutions
Workflows are fundamental to every Jira project, so it's important to set them up correctly. Jira provides tremendous flexibility in how you can configure a workflow. However, this also means there are a lot of details[...]
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