You know if you don’t maintain your Jira application that it can quickly grow out of control. But where do you start? How do you make small improvements without impacting daily business? What should you do if your application is already a bit of a mess? In this presentation, we’ll address:
Rachel Wright is an entrepreneur, process engineer, and Atlassian Certified Jira Administrator. She started using Jira in 2011, became a Jira administrator in 2013, and was certified in 2016. Rachel also uses Atlassian tools in her personal life for accomplishing goals and tracking tasks. Her first book, the "Jira Strategy Admin Workbook", was written in Confluence, and progress was tracked in Jira!
Key Benefits:
Agenda:
How to set standards so you don’t have more schemes to maintain than necessary,
How to clean up schemes and custom fields when you have too many,
How to archive old projects and unneeded issues,
and how to track changes and customization requests so you have a record and an audit trail.
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Entrepreneur, JIRA Administrator & Author
Rachel Wright is an entrepreneur, process engineer, and Atlassian Certified Jira Administrator. She started using Jira in 2011, became a Jira administrator in 2013, and was certified in 2016. Rachel also uses Atlassian tools in her personal life for accomplishing goals and tracking tasks. Her first book, "Jira Strategy Admin Workbook", was written in Confluence, and progress was tracked in Jira!
An entrepreneurial-minded process engineer. A leader with a developer’s background. Since 1998, Wright has architected more than 150 stable and secure web sites in her neighborhood and around the globe. Some of the more entertaining and challenging projects include:
● A political campaign in the Republic of El Salvador
● A daily newspaper serving 19 counties in Virginia
● An Austrian woodworking machinery distributor
● A foundation headed by tennis pro Venus Williams
● An event for the Marine Corps League
● Maintaining the primary sales channel for Network Solutions, a Web.com company
● Projects for universities, small and medium size businesses, and consultants
Wright received a B.S. in the Media field, with a Web concentration, and a minor in Information Technology from Radford University. During this time she spent three years directing and leading a team of forty students in the production of Radford University's weekly online magazine. She also taught classes in the Computer Science Department, and chaired the Student Media Committee - all while working towards her own degree.
Specialties: Leadership, project management, and technical expertise, in web development and ecommerce. Facilitating communication between multinational, multi-location, and cross-functional teams. Writing technical documentation and creating training materials. Atlassian JIRA and Confluence application administration.
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