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Platform power-ups for Jira and monday.com

Michael Rudenko
Michael Rudenko
29 July 2024
6 min read
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Michael Rudenko
Michael Rudenko
29 July 2024
6 min read

Discover how to boost your work management platform connectivity with smart integrations and custom applications.

Big picture thinking

Successful work management begins with big-picture thinking, a collaborative approach, and a powerful platform for work completion. At Adaptavist, we're big fans and strategic partners of the leading work management tools, Jira and monday.com. These tools offer fantastic flexibility and functionality for different organisations and their teams. There are others out there, but these are our favourites.
In this blog, we're exploring the complementary apps and power-ups that boost these work management platforms and make them even more effective. Whether we're talking IT technicians or operational business departments, these smart integrations offer teams the tools to connect their work, overcome hurdles, and make progress—in a single unified platform.

Connected working for everyone

No matter what type of work you do, managing it involves tackling common challenges. Marketing, legal, HR, sales, operations, and finance face the typical problems that IT experts do, including resource allocation and balancing workloads.
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%.

The ultimate work management toolkit

Jira and monday.com give IT and business teams access to powerful add-ons through their vast integration marketplaces. So, let's take a closer look at some of our favourites.

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Integrations for IT and technical teams

Unlimited Subitems

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.

GitLab

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.

ScriptRunner for Jira

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.

Gartner's research has found that businesses increasingly adopt agile development and product management models, with 44% of work delivered through agile methods and 39% through product models. (Harvard Business Review).

Integrations for business teams

Recurring Tasks

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

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.

Confluence

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.

Integrations for all teams

Slack

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.

Loom

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.

Discover add-ons that work for your teams

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.

Power up your work management platform

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.
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Written by
Michael Rudenko
Michael Rudenko
Head of Consulting EMEA
After retiring from the Royal Army Dental Corps, Michael led major projects for the NHS and the London 2012 Olympics. With 30+ year's experience, he fosters trust, collaboration, and efficiency, and excels in complex agile, DevOps, and work management settings.
Work management
Atlassian
monday.com