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Jira Product Discovery vs. Aha!: Evaluating Value for Modern Product Managers
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...
Mastering Software Supply Chain Security: How to Reduce Risk and Ensure Compliance
Software comprises an entire ecosystem of open-source libraries, third-party components, containers, APIs, build pipelines, cloud services, and developer tools. This can be referred to as your software supply chain. High-profile cyberattacks often target dependencies...
What You Should Know About GitLab 18.5
GitLab continues to push its platforms toward an AI-powered, secure, and collaborative DevSecOps experience. The release of 18.5 builds upon major innovations from 18.2 through 18.4. It is extending agentic workflows, expanding security automation, improving user...
Best Practices for Reviewing and Auditing LLM‑Generated Code
The use of Large language models (LLMs) to generate production-ready code for product engineering teams is gaining popularity. With LLM usage gaining traction, quality assurance engineers and software development managers must ensure that these LLMs meet high...
Bridge the Gap Between Strategy and Execution with Oboard
Introduction to Oboard Hello everyone, and welcome back to another SPK and Associates vlog. Today, we're diving into, I think, one of the bigger challenges that organizations face, and that's turning strategy into meaningful execution. It's one thing to set ambitious...
Why You Should Consider Upgrading from JSM Standard to JSM Premium or Enterprise
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...
How AI Improves Team and Individual Productivity
Viewing AI as a partner rather than a tool can save organizations time and money. Discover how AI can improve productivity in this downloadable eBook.What You Will Learn In this eBook, you will discover how: Atlassian’s AI assistant, Rovo, empowers organizations AI...
Using AI and Vision to Improve Quality and Reduce Scrap in Manufacturing
Manufacturers are under more pressure than ever to improve quality, reduce waste, and keep pace with rapidly shifting production demands. However, traditional MES and inspection systems often fall short due to their rigidity, slow updates, and disconnection from...
The 4 Common Misalignments Between Product, Business, and Engineering—And How to Fix Them with Atlassian
What does the average planning meeting look like for a product development company? Product managers are likely eager to introduce innovations and customer-driven features. Engineers are waving red flags about technical debt, scalability issues, and quality risks....
Top 5 Practices to Standardize Product Feedback and Prioritization in Jira and Confluence
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....
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