In the April 2017 issue, I wrote about how to use ticketing systems as a sysadmin to organize your tasks better. In that article, I made a brief reference to the fact that I've integrated some of my ...

Unlike a Jira story, tasks tend to be technical in nature. They describe work items and other activities that must be completed for a user story to meet the definition of done. Examples of Jira tasks.

This was made possible partly thanks to Code Barrel, a startup that Atlassian acquired in October. The startup's flagship software, an app called Automation for Jira, similarly helps its over ...