Jira 4.4 available today: Visual Workflow and More!
Atlassian is thrilled to announce the release of Jira 4.4 – our biggest Jira release in years satisfying over 1,400 votes! The Jira dev team has been working hard to get time-saving and productivity features in for Jira admins and end users alike. Visual Workflow Designer Project-centric administration New installer & upgrader More power in […]
Love the Workflow – Atlassian Summit 2011, Jira 4.4 Sneak Peek
Nothing helps you get things done quite like the right Jira workflow. Emma Rush from Adaptavist gave a great talk at Summit about how she used the Jira workflow to improve productivity, visibility, and reporting for her own projects. Mastering Jira Workflows Emma learned the underlying concepts at my own talk at Summit 2010, then […]
Save Time Working with Issues – Atlassian Summit 2011
As I mentioned last week, Jira’s powerful search is getting even better with the coming release of Jira 4.4 – but you don’t have to wait to reduce the time you spend working with issues. A few weeks ago at Atlassian Summit 2011, two of our Jira gurus gave tutorials for saving time while searching, […]
Jira 4.4 Sneak Peek – Search Change History Enhancements
Searching the change history of issues in Jira gives specific, key information about issues, and helps developers make decisions and prioritize work. Do More with ‘WAS’ The ability to search issue change history was introduced in Jira 4.3 with the Status field. In Jira 4.4, now you can also search: Assignee field Reporter field Number of […]
Jira Importers Plugin now supports Pivotal Tracker
Update: There have been many improvements to our Pivotal Tracker importer. You can find them all at the Pivotal Tracker import documentation. The Jira development team has been releasing iterative improvements to the external data importers for several months. In time for Jira 4.4, the team has finished three new importers, including Pivotal Tracker! The […]
Agile Testing with Bonfire Beta – Atlassian Summit 2011
We’re really excited about the the coming launch of Bonfire, our new Agile testing tool! Get the inside scoop and hear all about how Atlassian does testing on agile teams and why we created this awesome product in Andrew Prentice’s talk from Summit. Check out the full video and slides here to learn The trouble […]
Agile Best Practices Panel Discussion – Atlassian Summit 2011
Atlassian Summit 2011 was action packed with news and announcements. In case you missed any part of it, we’ve made nearly every Summit 2011 session available for you watch online. Agile Best Practices We know that no two teams are exactly alike, so we’ve assembled a panel of great dev team leads to answer questions […]
Direct from Summit 2011 – Jira 4.4 Beta1 available for download
As announced at Atlassian Summit 2011 earlier this week, we’re very excited to announce the availability of Jira 4.4 Beta1 via the Early Access Program. The Jira development team has been hard at work on our biggest release yet, and there are tons of awesome new features to check out! Administrator Luv The admin experience have […]
Atlassian introduces rapid agile testing with Bonfire for Jira
As announced at Summit today, Atlassian is excited to release the 1.0 beta of Bonfire for Jira! Atlassian Bonfire is a browser extension for software development teams to report bugs incredibly fast while testing web applications. Bonfire lets you.. Avoid context switching by submitting bugs directly from the browser Add annotated screenshots with each bug […]
The Three Pillars of GreenHopper: Share your success
This is the final post of a three part blog series highlighting a few lesser known but can’t-live-without features in GreenHopper, our agile planning tool for Jira. Each part is based on events in your projects. In previous posts, we walked through the planning session and ‘work’ phase of the project. Part Three will focus […]
The Three Pillars of GreenHopper: Getting things done
This is Part Two of a three part blog series highlighting a few lesser known but can’t-live-without features in GreenHopper, our agile planning tool for Jira. Each part is based on events cycles in a project. In my first post, we walked through the project planning session for the subsequent phase of work. Part Two […]
The Three Pillars of GreenHopper: Forward planning
This is a three part blog series highlighting a few lesser known but can’t-live-without features in GreenHopper, Atlassian’s agile planning tool for Jira. Each part explores events in your projects, with Part One focusing on the initial planning session. Stay tuned for the others: work in progress, then tracking the project and sharing status with […]
GreenHopper 5.6 now available!
We’re excited to announce the release of GreenHopper 5.6. The latest version of our agile planning tool for Jira adds features and improvements that both end users and administrators alike will enjoy while card creation and task management are easier than ever. Improved inline editing and auto-complete In GreenHopper 5.6 you can now easily edit […]
How our Sales Engineers use Jira for Project Management
Task tracking in the flow
Jira is awesome for task tracking and project management. We’ve made some recent improvements to one of our Jira Projects so my team can better track our time spent.
Don’t fall for the donut trap!
I hate meetings. Let me re-phrase. I hate sitting in a room discussing an endless topic knowing that my inbox is full and my to-do list is getting longer by the minute. That’s why the donut trap commercials really resonate with me. Here’s a typical scenario: 1:58 PM – The presenter arrives in the meeting […]