The Migration Succeeded. Then Things Started Breaking. The JCMA report shows zero errors. Zero warnings. Migration completed successfully. The admin closes the laptop and considers the project done. Days later, someone opens a ticket saying a workflow isn't behaving as expected. Then another. By the time the pattern
Jira Cloud runs on Atlassian's infrastructure. That doesn't mean it runs itself. A pattern I see consistently after migrations: the admin stops thinking about performance the moment the cutover is done. The logic makes sense on the surface — no more servers to patch, no more watching
Most ITSM teams don't have a priority problem. They have a classification problem. The symptom is familiar: every ticket comes in as High Priority. The user who can't access the financial system selects High. The user experiencing slowness in a support tool selects High. From their
If your ITSM has more than five active services, SLA management is probably already causing problems — even if nobody has said it out loud yet. The most common pattern I see in the field: rules created one by one, for each combination of service, priority, and issue type. Over time,
Three root causes that compound each other — and how to catch them before the contract is signed Large IT projects run, on average, 45% over budget. That figure comes from a McKinsey study analyzing more than 5,400 projects. It's not an exaggeration — it's the baseline.
If you've worked with Jira in an enterprise environment, you already know that the hard part is rarely the tool itself. It's the decisions made before anyone opens the admin panel. The scope that quietly expands. The apps that accumulate. The configurations nobody documented. The automations