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Best add-ons for JIRA to boost your productivity

Top 10 Jira Add-Ons for Cloud and Data Center

Creating a software product is a complex procedure consisting of versatile components. In other words, it is not enough to gather a team of experienced developers and tell them what you need. A proper organization of a workflow, as well as a constant tracking of all stages of the agile …

Smart-Checklist-for_JIRA-Server

Smart Checklist add-on for JIRA Server released

For months we’ve been providing JIRA Cloud users with the ability to manage their Definitions of Done, ToDo’s, Acceptance Criteria’s inside JIRA issue avoiding complex sub-tasks creation with Smart Checklist add-on for JIRA Cloud. Using Smart Checklist Enterprise Cloud Edition (paid) they’ve got even more enhanced functionality.The time has come …

How we saved on Mixpanel

How we saved $650 on Mixpanel monthly

We got acquainted with Mixpanel as a data analytics tool after trying out the Bitcoin Code App pretty long time ago and integrated it for few our clients. During last months we started active usage of Mixpanel integration on Railsware Labs products, like Smart Checklist add-on for JIRA, Mailtrap.io and …

Smart Checklist Tasks Organizer

Smart Checklist – tasks organizer built-in in your JIRA

We are glad to introduce you the new version of Smart Checklist add-on for JIRA Cloud. It’s hard to believe, but the first version of our add-on has been launched on Atlassian marketplace half a year ago!Over this time, Smart Checklist has become a MUST tool in our company’s processes …

Manage Client Happiness with Regular Demos

Manage Client Happiness with Regular Demos

Regular Demos – is one of the most powerful instruments of managing your client’s expectations. That’s the way you can formally get acceptance of your team’s work and eliminate frustration risks caused by missing functionality. It’s like “selling” product to the consumer and motivating them to buy it. This article …

Slack custom emoji to poll groups quickly

How we use Slack custom emoji to poll groups quickly

Do you know how to make quick, simple pools inside your group without any specific form-based tools? Google or Wufoo survey requires plenty of preparation and distribution time. Slack is good We use Slack messenger as team collaboration tool inside Railsware.Luckily it provides nice ability to add reaction to every …

Heroku Mailtrap add-on: dummy SMTP for emails testing

Good news for the development teams who run their applications on Heroku cloud application platform and need to constantly test transactional and other emails sent from your app. Railsware is proud to announce Mailtrap Heroku add-on public release.Mailtrap is in fact a dummy SMTP server that catches all your emails …

Mobile APPeal: Exploring the Mobile Landscape

This is a guest blog post from Bill Hodak, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic, the SaaS-based application management provider for web and mobile apps. It goes without saying that smartphones and other mobile devices have reached a level of ubiquitousness. We use them every day, for every thing …