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Continue reading →: How to Track Time in Jira and Build Worklog Reports in Dashboards (Without Exporting to Excel)If you’ve ever exported data from Jira into spreadsheets just to create worklog reports, you already know how tedious it can get. You download a CSV file, clean up the data, build a pivot table, and then repeat the same process next week. It works, but it’s slow and often…
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Continue reading →: How to Build Dynamic Reports in Jira and Confluence Using Pivot Tables and Pivot ChartsPivot Tables in Jira: Real-Time Reporting for Every Team When managing projects, having clear visibility over your data is essential. Whether you need to analyze progress, monitor team performance, or present results to stakeholders, raw issue lists and default reports often fall short. If you’ve ever managed a project in…
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Continue reading →: Time In Status: How to See How Long Issues Stay in Each Status in JiraUnderstanding time in status (how long issues spend in each workflow status) is essential for any team — Agile or not. However, if you’ve tried tracking this in Jira, you’ve likely run into a problem. Native options feel limited. They are also hard to customize. As a result, they rarely…
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Continue reading →: Great Gadgets vs Jira Reports: How Great Gadgets Elevates Software Development ReportingEffective reporting is critical for project success. Whether you’re using Scrum, Kanban, or scaling Agile across multiple teams with frameworks like SAFe®, you need clear, real-time visibility. Otherwise, decisions become guesswork. That’s where tools like Great Gadgets come in. They help teams turn Jira data into meaningful, easy-to-understand insights that…
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Continue reading →: How to Display Linked Issues and Their Status in Jira Dashboards by using Great Gadgets appWhen you’re managing work in Jira, linked issues play a key role in understanding dependencies, blockers and how tasks impact one another. But there’s one big limitation teams run into immediately: 👉 There is no build-in way in Jira to show linked issues together with their statuses. You can open…
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Continue reading →: Sprint Burndown with Subtasks: How to Create Accurate Sprint Reports in JiraIn this article, you’ll learn how to create a Sprint Burndown with subtasks (or Burnup chart) using Great Gadgets app for Jira or Confluence. No more Excel exports, no manual tracking – just a clear, real-time view of your sprint progress with subtasks included. The Challenge: Jira’s Native Burndown Chart…
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Continue reading →: 7 Essential Team Performance Metrics To Track In Jira By Using Great Gadgets AppMeasuring individual performance in agile teams is a sensitive but important topic. Agile principles emphasize collaboration over competition. Using team performance metrics helps in understanding how each team member contributes. This is important for coaching, resource planning, performance evaluation, and identifying areas where support is needed. One common question from…
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Continue reading →: SLA Breaches in Jira: What they are, why they happen and how to track and prevent them using Great Gadgets for JiraIn the world of IT Service Management (ITSM), customer support and agile project delivery, maintaining strong service performance is not just very important, but it is also expected. That’s where Service Level Agreements (SLAs) come in, helping teams prevent SLA breaches and ensure timely, reliable service delivery. For teams handling…
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Continue reading →: How To Display DevOps Insights on Your Jira DashboardsIn today’s fast-paced development environments, DevOps practices play an essential role in helping teams deliver better software, faster. As teams adopt DevOps practices to build, test, and ship faster, having clear, real-time DevOps insights into that flow becomes critical for everyone, not just developers. But while code is being written,…
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Continue reading →: Approvals in Jira Service Management: How to Display Approval Data with Great GadgetsIn any organization, approvals play a vital role in ensuring that processes are followed correctly, compliance is maintained and decisions are well-documented. Therefore, approvals in Jira Service Management are a critical part of many workflows. Whether you’re handling IT service requests, change management approvals or internal workflow approvals, Jira’s approval…
