Jira upgraded for product and project managers • The Register

Atlassian’s Jira software final Friday acquired vital upgrades geared toward encouraging its use past growth groups, a day after it was solid in a sinister function within the USA’s tradition wars.

Let’s cowl the improve first. Atlassian has signalled that Jira Product Discovery (JPD) will quickly turn into usually accessible. Just like the addition of Jira’s workflow instruments to Confluence, Atlassian’s goal with JPD is to get extra groups which have enter to software program growth working with the identical instruments.

The workforce JPD addresses is product managers, whom Atlassian believes create want lists for enhancements to software program in spreadsheets, textual content paperwork, or e-mail. The concepts expressed can due to this fact be onerous to speak to builders, and tougher to trace.

JPD lets product managers – and others who depend on builders – share concepts after which watch as they’re progressed.

One other Jira enhancement, Work Administration, provides undertaking administration baked into Jira to once more let extra components of an org work with the Atlassian software. Atlassian is conscious of the potential for capturing pockets share with this software, which can be one motive it is giving it away for a time.

Atlassian has additionally launched myriad templates for Jira so it is prepared for use in additional workflows that contact on software program.

The Register did not ask if a type of workflows is social media content material moderation requests handed from authorities companies to social community operators.

We point out that workflow solely as a result of final week’s United States Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability listening to on “Defending Speech from Authorities Interference and Social Media Bias, Half 1: Twitter’s Position in Suppressing the Biden Laptop computer Story” unexpectedly talked about that Jira was utilized in simply such a job.

Consultant Anna Luna (R-FL) produced proof that Twitter’s former international head of belief & security, Yoel Roth, and different Twitter employees have been in a position to entry a Jira occasion wherein the Division of Homeland Safety and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company – plus different authorities companies – reported what they believed was misinformation. Roth and his workforce may then think about if the reported tweets violated Twitter’s phrases of service. Luna characterised Jira in considerably cloak-and-dagger phrases as a “non-public cloud server” and prompt that use of such instruments is inappropriate and proof that Twitter acceded to authorities requests to suppress sure speech.

Roth tried to clarify the character of Jira, however was lower off and didn’t return to the subject.

The listening to did reveal one alleged direct try by the US authorities’s government department to censor Twitter: testimony from Anika Collier Navaroli, previously of Twitter’s Security Group, said that then-president Donald Trump let it’s recognized he wished Twitter to take away an unflattering tweet posted by mannequin and tv character Chrissie Teigen, bypassing the companies answerable for such recommendations and the Jira server they used for related requests.

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