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How Product Managers Use Jira to Balance Customer Feedback with Roadmap Priorities
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...
The Developer Experience Playbook: Balancing Velocity, Governance, and Talent Retention
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...
Why Developers Lose Flow—and How to Fix It
Introduction Welcome everybody, and thanks for joining today's conversation. This is Why Developers Lose Flow and How to Fix It. If you ever work with software engineering teams, you know developer productivity isn't just about writing code; it's about protecting...
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...
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