Issues Confronting Atlassian in its Flagship PM Product

ISSUES CONFRONTING ATLASSIAN IN ITS FLAGSHIP PM PRODUCT 1
ISSUES CONFRONTING ATLASSIAN IN ITS FLAGSHIP PM PRODUCT
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ISSUES CONFRONTING ATLASSIAN IN ITS FLAGSHIP PM PRODUCT 2
Introduction
Project management software assists managers of various projects in executing their daily
managerial roles. Some of these roles include the fulfillment of client requirements on time and
within the budget constraint planned by organizations (Abdel-Hamid and Madnick 2013, p.1).
There is various project management software which can be used by organization’s project
managers some of which include Jira, ProWorkflow, Office Timeline, EasyProjects and Procore
among others.
Atlassian Australian software giant uses Jira in enabling its software developers to manage their
workflows. Jira has been successful in enabling Atlassia to execute its duties of software
development and hence has enabled the organization to improve its revenue. However, due to the
increasing customer base for Atlassia which is now moving to the cloud, it has become necessary
for Atlassia to give its flagship product project management tool Jira a complete makeover in
order to accommodate the customer increased needs. Atlassia has faced various issues in the
flagship of its project management tool Jira. The various issues encountered have been discussed
below.
i. Difficulties associated with the transfer of data
In the course of migrating to the cloud, an organization has to transfer all its data from the usual
way to the cloud. In the event of transferring data to the cloud, some crucial data may leak out or
even be lost (Zhang, Chiu and Liu 2014, p.148). Atlassia has been faced with the challenge of
transferring their huge customer base to the cloud as most of their customers have migrated to
the cloud and are now making purchases of cloud versions of Atlassian software. The process of