Hello, my name is Ravi Sagar, I am the principal consultant and founder of Sparxsys Solutions. We are an Atlassian Consultancy company based in the UK, India and UAE. We help companies get the most out of Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and we specialise in automation, integrations, Forge app development, ScriptRunner for Jira and Cloud migrations.
Atlassian ecosystem has changed a lot in the last two decades. When I started using Jira there was no concept of an Atlassian Marketplace or Partners. I remember one day I received an email from Atlassian that they would like Sparxsys to become their partner and they asked to go through the onboarding process and complete some exercises. When I learned more about the program back then I realised become a partner requires you to have a team of people who can do things like Sales, licensing, client management etc. These days it is just impossible to become Atlassian partner as a small company.So can't you run a small independent consulting Atlassian consulting business?I think you can but it is tough to compete with the big companies/partners. I believe there is something for every company…
If you did something on #Jira in 2006 for your company where you created a project, created custom schemes, custom fields, and some workflows. Probably did a migration from some legacy tool to Jira.
Then you moved to a totally different role, never looked back at Jira.
In 2026 if you come back to Jira Cloud - how different would you find it? Yes, there are plenty of new features but what essentially you did 20 years is pretty much 90% of what people do with Jira now as well.
#Justsaying
A Jira cloud site can be created by anyone for free.Go to https://www.atlassian.com/software/jiraClick on "Create a new site" and wait for few minutes.
We launched a new app called "SprintRunner for Jira". The motivation behind this app was to help Project Managers and SCRUM Masters focus on delivery and let our app take care of automatically start and stop specific sprints based on a schedule.Usually managers forgot to stop the sprint on time and that is not a good thing. If you want to follow Agile practices then to get into this habit of iterating you need to ensure that team members are committed to delivering the stories and tasks on time. Stopping the sprint automatically may seem harsh but it will keep a check on everyone.You can read the documentation of this app here.If you need a demo of this app please reach out to me directly.
