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Tips, tutorials, and insights on getting the most out of Jira with Orbiscend tools.
We Built a Spectra Game: Trace the Anomaly Before the Comms Window Closes
Observation Window is a five-minute, five-level browser game that teaches cross-filtering the way a static dashboard never will — click charts to drill from a whole satellite constellation down to the one signal that event counts hide. Play it free, no install required.
Spectra Is Live: Jira Dashboards You Can Actually Explore
Spectra is live on the Atlassian Marketplace. Click any chart and the whole dashboard refilters. Group by cycle time, time-in-status, and WIP aging — metrics that aren't even Jira fields. No query language, no data egress, and a fraction of the price of the incumbents. Here's the tour.
Your Story Says 13 Points. Its Subtasks Say 10. Here's How to Catch That Automatically.
Jira never rolls a subtask's estimate up to its parent, so the number on the parent and the sum of the work underneath drift apart the moment scope changes. Argon's Calculated Field does the rollup automatically — and because it's a real, JQL-searchable field, you can query for the parents whose numbers no longer add up.
Your AI Agent Shouldn't Have Write Access to Jira. Here's What We Built Instead.
Everyone's plugging AI agents into Jira. Reading is fine — it's the writing that should scare you. Here's why we built an approval gate between the agent and your project, and what changes when the agent has to ask first.
Aevon Timesheets Is Live: Log Time, Route Approvals, and Prep Billing Without Leaving Jira
Aevon Timesheets is live on the Atlassian Marketplace. It runs the entire timesheet loop — log time on a weekly calendar, route approvals per account, and export billing-ready hours — inside Jira on Atlassian Forge, so your worklogs never leave Atlassian. Here's the full tour, one screen at a time.
Every Commit Tells a Story. Your Auditor Wants to Know Which Ticket It Belongs To.
A code change that ships without a linked ticket is one of the first things an auditor flags — a break in the change-management trail that no amount of clean code can paper over. Here's why untracked commits and PRs are an audit liability across SOC2, ISO 27001, and SOX, and how Dike catches them inside Jira before your auditor does.
Orbiscend Partners with Vilisoft and Peakforce to Help Teams Get More from Jira
Orbiscend is teaming up with two established Atlassian partners — Vilisoft, a Jira app builder, and Peakforce, an Atlassian Solution Partner. Here's what the cooperation means for the teams who use our apps.
Who Moved It, and When? 5 Ways to Put Jira's transitionedBy to Work
Native Jira JQL tells you a work item's current status — never who moved it there, or when. Argon's transitionedBy answers both. Here are five ways teams put it to work: sprint retros, audits, catching stalled work, and more.
We Built a JQL Game: Save the Rocket Before the Countdown Hits Zero
Launch Trainer is a five-minute, five-level browser game that teaches JQL the way reading docs never will — under pressure, with a launch on the line. Play it free, no install required.