Jira License Audit: How to Find Jira Inactive Users Costing You Money Jira License Audit: How to Find Jira Inactive Users Costing You Money A 10-minute audit that could save you thousands on your Atlassian renewal License Audit Guide Last week, a Jira admin discovered 47 inactive users in their instance. Annual cost? $5,000+ for […]
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Jira Data Center Migration: 2026 Planning Guide Jira Data Center Migration: 2026 Planning Guide Three paths, honest comparison, practical timeline — whether you’re migrating to Cloud or staying until 2029 DC Migration Planning The Date Everyone’s Thinking About March 30, 2026 Atlassian stops selling new Data Center licenses. That’s Q1 2026. Planning your Jira Data
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JQL Cheat Sheet: Copy-Paste Queries for Jira Admins JQL Cheat Sheet: The Queries You Keep Googling For Jira admins who know JQL but forget the syntax every time JQL Reference Guide This isn’t a JQL tutorial. You already know what JQL is. This is the page you bookmark and come back to when you can’t
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AI Jira Admin: 4 Practical Use Cases in 2025 AI Jira Admin: 4 Practical Use Cases in 2025 Beyond text generation — practical use cases for support and troubleshooting 2025 made AI impossible to ignore. But for Jira administrators, the conversation usually stops at “write documentation” or “generate images.” The real value? AI as a
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The Safe Way to Delete Jira Custom Fields The Safe Way to Delete Jira Custom Fields A decision framework that prevents “oh no, we needed that” You’ve counted your custom fields (Part 1). You’ve identified the unused, duplicated, and abandoned ones (Part 2). Now comes the part that makes every Jira admin nervous: learning how
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Find Your Jira’s Hidden Custom Field Waste Find Your Jira’s Hidden Custom Field Waste 4 SQL queries that expose unused, duplicate, and abandoned fields In Part 1, you counted your custom fields and checked for performance symptoms. Now it’s time to identify exactly which Jira custom fields are dragging your instance down. Not all custom
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Is Your Jira Dying from Custom Field Bloat? Is Your Jira Dying from Custom Field Bloat? A diagnostic guide for Jira Data Center administrators Every Jira administrator inherits sins of the past. That dropdown field someone created years ago ‘just for one project.’ The three variations of “Priority” because teams couldn’t agree on options. The
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Atlassian’s Game-Changing September 2025: AI Revolution and Strategic Acquisitions Atlassian’s Game-Changing September 2025 AI Revolution, Billion-Dollar Acquisitions, and the Future of DevOps 📅 Published: October 3, 2025 | 10 min read AI Acquisitions DevOps Security September 2025 will be remembered as one of the most transformative months in Atlassian’s history. With over $1.6 billion invested
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Writing Effective Jira Prompts: A Practical Guide for ChatGPT and AI Tools Learn how to structure your questions to get specific, actionable solutions for Jira issues instead of generic troubleshooting advice Why Most Jira Troubleshooting Takes Hours (Not Minutes) As Jira administrators, we’ve all been there: an OutOfMemoryError appears, and suddenly you’re deep in Stack
The $500,000 Question: Why Are We Still Using Terminal for Jira Admin? Royal Caribbean saved 800+ hours and $500,000 annually using Jira’s visual automation tools. Roblox cut $150,000 from their budget when just two teams switched to GUI-based administration. These aren’t random success stories — they’re part of a bigger trend that’s reshaping IT administration.
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