Author: Rajasekhar Reddy

  • Enabling External Implementers in Jira Service Management Without Agent Licenses

    In many organizations, change management involves external vendors or implementation partners who are responsible for executing planned changes. However, providing these external users with Jira Service Management (JSM) agent licenses can significantly increase licensing costs.  In such scenarios, organizations need a way for external implementers to collaborate on change requests without being part of the internal agent…

  • Ditching ServiceNow: Is Jira Service Management Ready for Enterprise?

    Many companies are trying to cut IT and service management costs. ServiceNow is powerful, but it is also expensive and complex. Because of this, more teams are asking a simple question:  Can Jira Service Management (JSM) replace ServiceNow?  Let’s break it down.  Why Companies Are Rethinking of ServiceNow  ServiceNow often comes with:  For many teams, this means high spend and…

  • Prevent Downloading of Attached Files in Confluence and Jira

    Atlassian has released a security improvement that helps organizations protect their data in Confluence and Jira. Now, the data export rule also blocks users from downloading attached files. When this rule is active, users won’t see the Download option for attachments in file previews, attachment lists, or macros. This update applies automatically to any existing…

  • Use One Workflow for Different Request Types in Jira Service Management

    In Jira Service Management (JSM), different request types follow different processes. Some requests need approval, and some do not. Instead of creating many workflows, JSM allows admins to use one workflow and control which steps are visible based on the request type. Why This Is Useful For example: If approval steps appear for all requests,…

  • Integrating GitHub Copilot with Azure Boards – A Step-by-Step, Practical Guide

    For a long time, teams using Azure DevOps have had a familiar setup:Azure Boards for planning and tracking, and GitHub for source code.While this combination works really well, one gap always existed — the execution part still needed a human developer to pick up a work item, understand it, write code, and raise a pull…

  • Atlassian Rovo vs Intelligence  Which AI should you pay

    If you’ve used Atlassian recently, you might have noticed two AI options: Atlassian Intelligence and Rovo Agents. Which one should you actually use? Let’s break it down. What’s the Difference? Atlassian Intelligence Examples: Search Work Items using Simple Language Get suggestions and helps draft content Rovo Agents Example: Intelligence helps you think. Rovo helps you…

  • No More Manual Approvals: Automate Jira Approvals with Smart Values

    Atlassian has released a new feature, it would be helpful to automate the approval mechanism based on the issues reporter’s or assignee’s manager. To achieve this Atlassian has released new smart values We can use these smart values to automate the approver setting automatically through automation without manually selecting manager of the issues reporter or…

  • Atlassian Collections: The Simple Breakdown

    Let’s be honest. In today’s workplace, things are a mess. You’ve got one tool for tracking tasks, another for writing documents, a third for getting IT help, and yet another for your video calls. It feels like you spend more time trying to get your apps to talk to each other than actually doing your…

  • Setting Up SonarQube as a Service: Step-by-Step Guide

    To run sonarqube as a service we need follow the below steps. Please open the CMD prompt in Administration mode. Navigate to the bin path, here I am using windows machine so I will navigate to Windows. For me this the path- C:\Program Files\sonarqube-enterprise-2025.2.0.105476\sonarqube-2025.2.0.105476\bin\windows-x86-64 Inside this path we will be seeing below files. To run…

  • How to Easily Download and Configure SonarScanner CLI on Windows

    SonarScanner CLI is the scanner to use when there is no specific scanner for you Build System. Please note that SonarScanner CLI does not officially support ARM architecture. To download the SonarScanner CLI you can visit the below site. https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/latest/analyzing-source-code/scanners/sonarscanner once you open the link you will find various versions of scanner based on the…