Platform power-ups for Jira and monday.com

Yep, typical work management challenges happen across the board, including communication struggles, effective time management, project scope creep, integrating new tools and technology, change and data management, and the ability to engage and motivate team members in a remote and widely distributed workforce.

You can overcome these everyday issues with thoughtful planning, streamlined processes, supportive leadership, and experienced project management. But you also need the right tech: customisable platforms that enhance collaboration and communication and offer wider integrations with other essential tools.

They can transform how work gets done so your people can concentrate on getting it done. A report by TechTarget found that Atlassian work management tools increased the efficiency, quality, and speed of collaborative projects and decreased interruptions by 35%.

This add-on from Upscale (part of The Adaptavist Group) enhances monday.com's native information hierarchy so you can more accurately reflect how your team organises work. It lets you add as many subitems as you need—ideal for projects requiring tracking and managing at multiple levels.

We're proud GitLab partners and big fans of monday.com’s GitLab integration. It lets you connect and track your GitLab projects directly in the platform—manually or using automation. You'll be able to see status updates directly from the item view and get instant notifications about merge requests and new and resolved issues.

The automation and customisation app from ScriptRunner (part of The Adaptavist Group) for Jira is a must-have for technical teams. It lets you build as many automations as you need to speed up workflows and create dynamic Jira field rules based on user actions, field selections, project and issue types, user roles, and so much more. It gives you complete control of your Jira issues without breaking a sweat.

Whatever your role, repetitive tasks are likely part of your workload. Recurring Tasks for monday.com from Upscale helps you cut down on planning time by letting you schedule as many routine items or subitems as you want when you want. They'll show up in your boards, calendar, timelines, Kanban, and reports with minimal effort from you.

Miro makes online visual collaboration easier, innovative, and more creative. With this add-on, you can embed Miro content directly in your Jira issues, providing more context for your teammates and improving team communication. Keep working in Miro from Jira, editing and commenting on your Miro boards—don't worry, all your changes automatically sync.

According to Atlassian, 76% of Jira customers ship projects faster after using Confluence. Integrating this Atlassian mainstay gives your team a single source of truth and a centralised space to keep track of projects and stay in sync—benefit from organised workflows, task tracking, dynamic reporting, and documentation management.

Atlassian's official integration combines your Jira projects and Slack channels for more connected, informed conversations. The @Jira bot lets you set up update notifications in seconds in specific channels (for example, when you create issues, comment on issues, etc.). You can even create Jira issues directly in Slack, reducing context switching for your team. The Adaptavist Group also develops apps for Slack, such as Workflow Steps for Jira and Integrate Plus for Slack, that help you and your teams become more efficient.

Jira's integration with its video messaging platform, Loom, removes the pain of asynchronous work. Smartlinks make it easy to embed Loom videos directly in Jira so that teams can share their ideas and updates on where the work is happening. Plus, everyone can watch when it suits their schedule. No matter how many teams or time zones are involved, there's no need for a meeting or written update, which is perfect for asynchronous working, too.

This list is by no means exhaustive. Both tool providers recommend a wide range of add-on apps suited explicitly to specific teams using monday.com and Jira, whether you're an IT technician, HR manager, or marketing whizz.

If you're already using a work management powerhouse platform (or you're thinking of getting started with monday.com or Jira), then why settle for it straight out-of-the-box ? We hope you'll agree it's worth exploring the various apps and integrations available to complement existing functionality, bring disparate tools together, and make these impressive platforms work harder for your organisation.

If you're are looking for an all-in-one work management platform for your whole organisation that can be uniquely powered up to meet individual team requirements, we can help set your teams up for success with the right platform and app combination.