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Re: Because Developers Are Awesome: On Marketing to Developer Communities

Gerard Sans — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:48:32 -0000

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Re: Goodbye MongoDB, Hello Bowery

Scott Cote — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:27:43 -0000

Good Luck Francium. :)

Re: Goodbye MongoDB, Hello Bowery

meghangill — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:53:14 -0000

Our loss is Bowery's gain. Best of luck in the next adventure. You will go far!!

Re: Yes, We Use Jira for Everything

Pico — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:47:12 -0000

Thank you both for your comments.

I since started using the "due date" field in JIRA issues to prioritize them. (The graphic designer working with me asked for this herself.)

A "social media" project divided in components and a filter to create some kind of queue are very nice tips, thank you!

I don't think I have any specific question, but if you happen to know something about flexibily planning co-workers time sheets that you can share, I'll be grateful. (I currently use the tempo plugin suite for this. But I haven't quite managed to make it perfect.)

Re: Yes, We Use Jira for Everything

Francesca Krihely — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:47:01 -0000

I think there are ways to establish priority, and you can set different priorities for different "projects". So you would be able to assign something as P1 or something else as P2.

You can also set different flows for how tasks are closed (this is on the back end of Jira). A project can go through a number of iterations from "In review with customer" to "Ready to publish"

Re: Yes, We Use Jira for Everything

Francesca Krihely — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:43:16 -0000

Oh wow. Didn't even see his comments!

- And what exactly do you mean by "queue"? Is that some kind of default JIRA element?

You can create a filter of items that is more effectively assembled as a queue--a list of projects that need to be completed.

-- My understanding from your post is that in your case you have one JIRA "Project" called Marketing, and this project is then sub-divided in "Components", that each represent one project; is that correct? Could you explain a little bit better how is this managed in your organization?

Yes one project. I choose to use components to manage my items, but others just manage based on assignments. Right now we have a component called "social media" and all requests for social media promotion can go in that queue!

Re: Yes, We Use Jira for Everything

Michael Brinson — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:38:29 -0000

Thanks for the response Francesca, I didn't mean to rag on you for not responding. I just know that it's hard to keep up with everything and figured that this post had escaped your attention.

I did think that Pico's question was very well thought out and obviously he put a lot of effort into describing and explaining his scenario and questions. Your response didn't address many of his specific questions:

- And what exactly do you mean by "queue"? Is that some kind of default JIRA element?

- My understanding from your post is that in your case you have one JIRA "Project" called Marketing, and this project is then sub-divided in "Components", that each represent one project; is that correct? Could you explain a little bit better how is this managed in your organization?

Re: Yes, We Use Jira for Everything

Francesca Krihely — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:25:23 -0000

Sorry! Just replied to Pico! Any other specific questions?

Re: Yes, We Use Jira for Everything

Francesca Krihely — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:25:09 -0000

Hey! We use Kanban boards and have all of the tickets tagged as "Design Request" any other specific questions?

Re: Yes, We Use Jira for Everything

Michael Brinson — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:57:54 -0000

I'd love to read your response to Pico's question. But it looks like this blog post has been abandoned.

Re: Yes, We Use Jira for Everything

James — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:41:11 -0000

I too was just looking at Jira to use as a ticketing tool for our graphics design team. Any suggestions on workflow management is appreciated.

Re: Yes, We Use Jira for Everything

Pico — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 07:05:57 -0000

Hi francium, I'm looking to establish the use of JIRA among a small team of (3) graphic designers and (3) web developers.

You mentioned that anyone in your organization can assign tickets (or issues, in JIRA terminology, I presume) to your graphic designer and then she can visualize all of them in her queue and prioritize them. Could you elaborate a little bit more on the configuration scheme your project manager set up in JIRA to achieve that? And what exactly do you mean by "queue"? Is that some kind of default JIRA element? Because I'm not finding anything that goes by that name in JIRA.

We work on all kind of projects (ranging from more 'classical' communication design - flyers, outdoors, branding operations, etc... - to semi-complex web development - custom websites, e-shops, product configurators, etc), and I would like to maintain the segmentation by Project (each JIRA Project corresponds to a specific work for a specific client).
My understanding from your post is that in your case you have one JIRA "Project" called Marketing, and this project is then sub-divided in "Components", that each represent one project; is that correct? Could you explain a little bit better how is this managed in your organization?

My main issue with JIRA is I can't find a way to easily manage priorities between different "Projects", i.e. Designer X is working on Project A, but then comes Project B (which as a highest priority for my organization than Project A); how can I define (inside JIRA) that Designer X needs to stop working in Project A while Project B is not complete, or marked as "In Review by the Client"?

Thank you so much for your post, I always find it extremely helpful to better understand how other people/organizations mange their workflows, with or without JIRA, and your post was great for that.

Re: Recap of Community Leadership Summit 13

Trish Fontanilla — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:28:00 -0000

Host it the following weekend so I can come down from Boston! :)

Re: Recap of Community Leadership Summit 13

tamcdonald — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:08:32 -0000

I hosted a Community Manager UNconference in NYC back in February. We are holding one in Toronto on August 17 and have been in Chicago and San Francisco this year. http://mycmgr.com/events/
Happy to discuss another one in NYC.

Re: MongoDB Masters Summit 2013

Mark Birch — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:19:59 -0000

I love the unconference format. And thanks for coming out to the dumpling tour, it was great to have everyone!

Re: Contributing to the MongoDB Docs

Bryan O'Doyle — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:15:57 -0000

https://github.com/mongodb/...
~My first attempt at a contribution to Open Source.

It works... it just, makes it easy! nice.

Re: Helping n00bs become Masters

Bryan O'Doyle — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:32:28 -0000

The old saying: "If you want to have help getting something done, ask a busy man."
I have spent 3 days trying to find clear and relevant documentation to get my php script doing something which is easy to do in the mongo Shell. Sure appreciate it if you could exchange a few emails to help me through.

Re: Why Should You Learn MongoDB in 2013?

Francesca Krihely — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:46:30 -0000

sure thing. I'll send you the HTML.

Re: Why Should You Learn MongoDB in 2013?

Eric — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:23:53 -0000

Would you be interested in having this article featured in DZone's NoSQL portal?

Re: Why Should You Learn MongoDB in 2013?

jean — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:43:48 -0000

I'm fan of Online Education Course of 10gen. As far as I concerned, mongodb is going to become in the most popular and with time, the easiest "nosql" database to deal with high volume of traffic data applications.

Re: Why I Love MongoSV

Prem Regmi — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:08:56 -0000

Nice to read your blog. Thanks Francesca for your invitation for such huge event . Its my bad luck that i could not attend. Hope i could join next time.

Re: Why I Love MongoSV

Guest — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:03:42 -0000

Nice to read your blog. I missed this event ,thanks Francesca for invitation. May be I could join next time.

Re: Yes I’m a Community Manager and I’m Learning MongoDB

Francesca Krihely — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:59:04 -0000

Not sure, but I imagine it's about the same :)

Re: Yes I’m a Community Manager and I’m Learning MongoDB

Francesca Krihely — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:58:48 -0000

:) it will be so fun!

Re: Yes I’m a Community Manager and I’m Learning MongoDB

John Graber — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:32:05 -0000

Any idea how many registered for DBA vs Dev training?