We’ve all seen the headlines: “AI is the future of work,” “AI will automate all your tasks,” “AI is coming for your job.” However, for teams deep in engineering, product, support, and business operations, the truth is more subdued. Instead of fear-mongering, teams...
Building the right product often comes down to balancing what customers say they want with what your business aims to achieve. Jira helps bridge these competing demands by giving product managers a unified system for prioritizing, planning, and executing work with...
Ensuring your developers have the proper tools and processes to eliminate slowdowns and frustrations can be the difference between a great and a poor developer experience. Discover the importance of developer experience (DX) and how to improve it in this eBook.What...
Choosing the right platform to manage ideation, roadmapping, and alignment with engineering matters. While there are many, two heavy-hitters in this space are Jira Product Discovery (JPD) from Atlassian and Aha! from the company of the same name. This blog breaks...
Why Upgrade JSM Standard to Premium? Hi everybody. I'm Michael Roberts, Vice President of Sales and Marketing here at SPK and Associates. And today I want to break down a question that I hear all the time from our clients: is it worth upgrading from JSM Standard to...
Every product team's goal is to build features that matter; however, this can be challenging, especially due to modernization. Ideas arrive from customer conversations, sales calls, support tickets, user interviews, Slack threads, and internal brainstorming sessions....
Improving Efficiency with the Resources You Have Michael Roberts:Hello everyone. My name is Michael Roberts, Vice President of Sales and Marketing here at SPK and Associates. Welcome to today’s vlog, “Solving the ‘Not Enough People or Time’ Challenge with Atlassian...
Migrating from one enterprise tool to another can feel like walking a tightrope over a canyon of potential errors, data loss, and productivity disruptions. For organizations moving from Rally (formerly CA Agile Central) to Jira, this process is particularly nuanced. ...
Modern development teams are under increasing pressure to deliver faster, collaborate more effectively, and meet strict compliance requirements—all while managing complex toolchains. Join SPK and Associates for an in-depth look at how GitLab’s all-in-one DevSecOps...
Managing complex portfolios, distributed teams, and evolving business priorities demands connected insights. That’s where BigPicture by Appfire shines. As one of the most powerful project portfolio management tools for Jira, BigPicture brings structure, clarity, and...
Let’s be real. Teams that work at Enterprise and Mid-market companies need project management tools that scale with complexity, integrate seamlessly with other systems, and reduce information silos. While Asana has long been a favorite among business teams due to its...
File mistakes and unnecessary rework remain all too common in the engineering space. Inefficient CAD file management due to poor collaboration and hardware limitations can result in missing details or time-consuming corrections. This is why reducing CAD errors is so...