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Many of you are undoubtedly familiar with using Jira as an issue tracker. Go to Dashboard: g then d. Looking for the definition of SPK? Find out what is the full meaning of SPK on Abbreviations. Created an attachment (id=1242) OSIRIS_Rex. Burndown chart for Jira 4.

Sometimes, the lingo can be the steepest part of the learning curve when getting started with Jira (and the Agile methodology). Below, we have compiled a list of some of the basic (and more obscure) terms associated with Jira. Did we miss any? Add your own terms and definitions in the comments below!

Backlog – A backlog is a list of the outstanding user stories, bugs and features for a product or sprint.

Board – The tool that teams use to visualize units of work moving through their specific workflow. It can be adapted for different styles of agile development (e.g. a Scrum board shows work items moving from the product backlog to the sprint backlog whereas a Kanban board typically has a three-step workflow: To Do, In Progress, and Done).

Burndown Chart – A Burndown Chart shows the actual and estimated amount of work to be done in a sprint.

Control Chart – A Control Chart can show the cycle time or lead time for your product, version or sprint.

Cycle Time – Cycle time is the time spent working on an issue – typically, the time taken from when work begins on an issue to when work is completed, but also includes any other time spent working on the issue. For example, if an issue is reopened, worked on, and completed again, then the time for this extra work is added to the cycle time.

Daily stand-up – Also known as a daily scrum, a 15-minute mini-meeting for the software team to sync.

Epic – An epic captures a large body of work that needs to be broken down into a number of smaller stories. It may take several sprints to complete an epic. The hierarchy for units of work in Jira Software is as follows: Project > Epics/Components > Stories > Tasks > Subtasks

Filter – Filters determine what is visible on each of your boards. Using Jira's simple query builder (JQL), you can customize exactly which issues are displayed on your board.

Issue – An issue is simply a unit of work within Jira that will be traced through a workflow, from creation to completion. It can range from representing a single unit of work, like a simple task or bug, to a larger parent work item to be tracked, like a story or an epic.

Kanban – Kanban is a system for visualizing the flow of work and limiting work in progress. Kanban is not oriented towards sprints, like Scrum development methodology, as it is more ongoing.

Scrum – Scrum is an Agile development methodology where the product is built in a series of fixed-length iterations called sprints. It gives teams a framework for shipping software on a regular cadence.

Scrum of Scrums – Scrum of Scrums is a means of scaling Scrum to large, multi-team projects. Scrum of Scrums is the Agile version of what is traditionally known as program management.

Sprint –  A sprint — also known as an iteration — is a short (ideally two to four week) period in which the development team implements and delivers a discrete product increment, e.g. a working milestone version.

Sprint planning – A team planning meeting that determines what to complete in the coming sprint.

Sprint retrospective – A review of what did and didn't go well with actions to make the next sprint better.

Story – A story or user story is a software system requirement that is expressed in a few short sentences, ideally using non-technical language.

Story Point – A story point is an estimate of the relative complexity of a story.

Swimlane –  A swimlane is a means of categorizing issues so that agile teams can see which issues they should work on next.

Sub-Task –  A sub-task can be a "child" of any issue type, depending on the Issue Type Scheme of the project.

Task - A task is another out-of-the-box issue type in Jira.

Velocity – The velocity of a team is a measure of how much work that the team can handle within a specific time period, i.e. how much of the product backlog can be completed by the team in a sprint. Velocity can be calculated on the basis of story points, business value, hours, issue count, or any numeric field of your choice.

Workflow – Workflow is the logic that drives movement of a stories / sub-task along their development journey on a scrum or kanban board.

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“By achieving a Gold Solution Partner status, we have demonstrated SPK has both the technical and business expertise to work with Atlassian products.” Says Chris. “Additionally, it shows our expertise when it comes to integrating Atlassian products with other DevOps technologies. This absolutely aligns to our mission of helping companies accelerate their product development life cycle.”

Atlassian Gold Solution Partners are highly trained and committed to delivering business value to customers. SPK and Associates has been operating for almost 25 years and became an Atlassian Silver Solution Partner in June of 2021 before rapidly transitioning to the Gold partner status at the end of 2022. This rapid transition was assisted through the impeccable standard of successful implementations and Atlassian Cloud migrations of Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management, and Bitbucket with several clients. SPK has worked harmoniously with clients to facilitate the migration of their on-premise Atlassian instances to the Atlassian Cloud. This has enabled better total cost of ownership and a focused Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) driven experience.

The journey with Atlassian started earlier than 2021 though. Edwin Chung, Director of Engineering Technology & Applications at SPK says “Because we were a trusted IT and engineering vendor for many clients in the medical device industry, we were working on their Atlassian on-premise environments for years. This would include upgrades, adding new marketplace plugins, completing architecture work by recommending ways to automate and streamline their operations,” That gave us the foundational skills needed to become an Atlassian partner and grow our business with Atlassian over the past 18 months.”

SPK’s core expertise covers four functional areas: Product Lifecycle Management (MCAD, PLM, PDM); Software Lifecycle Management (ALM, DevOps); Cloud for Engineering (Infrastructure, Security); Data Engineering and Analytics. With its years of regulatory compliance work, SPK specializes in work with clients in the medical device, aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing industries. With such a wide range of experience and understanding, SPK and its experts are well-positioned to support customers in reviewing their existing business processes and workflows, and define potential integration points or methods of automation that would propel these companies and allow them to reclaim valuable engineering time.

“I’m extremely proud of the work our team has done to earn the Gold Solution Partner status with Atlassian. We were excited to be an official partner back in 2021, but we’re even more excited now to be providing our customers with a wider range of solutions with Atlassian products,” says Christine. “Our amazing team members are central to our success. They help our clients deliver value faster and with a higher quality than they had previously.”

SPK also supports clients that are implementing new Atlassian solutions including the review of Atlassian Marketplace apps, the addition and use of custom fields, the creation of custom dashboards and reports, as well as build or automate business processes around most Atlassian products.

The expert team at SPK have dozens of decades of experience assisting clients to bring their software to marketing. Furthermore, SPK also builds full-cycle DevOps infrastructure, from project planning and operation management to continuous integration, deployment, and feedback, with any third-party tools integrated. Finally, the company also provides managed services for many of the solutions it builds for clients, including those in the Atlassian realm, and provides L1-L3 support with 24/7 monitoring.

Get in touch with our team at SPK and Associates and learn more about which Atlassian solutions and services could help your team accelerate their product development.

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