Getting the right data from your users to ease developer pain
Collecting the right information from the start makes interactions between the development team and issue reporters much easier. In this article, I’ll share a few ways you can help ease developer pain with Jira Software. Successful product teams incorporate user feedback throughout their entire development cycle. Product owners meet with customers, and development teams respond to […]
Announcing Jira Portfolio: View, plan, & manage initiatives
Update: Jira Portfolio is now available for both Jira Cloud and Jira Server. I’m excited to announce a new member to the Jira family: Jira Portfolio. As agile methodology becomes the development pattern of choice for many teams, challenges ensue when scaling agile across the business. Development teams need to communicate status, progress and forecasts throughout the development cycle. Program managers […]
Jira Agile 6.6: now available
It’s no secret that better planning means faster and higher quality deliverables for any agile team. Our newest release of Jira Agile provides richer data during the planning process by making agile cards more customizable than ever before. Now teams can display the data that is important to them. Additionally, we’ve made improvements that will allow agile teams […]
5 tips for great code reviews
In almost every organization, team members collaborate to get work done. Software teams typically transition issues between people for different functions like code development, code review, and testing (even if they are all on the same team). When transitioning an issue from one team member to another it’s important to minimize the amount of ramp up required for […]
QA Webinar: How to Deliver Quality Assurance at Speed
As teams transition to an agile development workflow, many struggle with how to adapt traditional testing methods in an agile culture. Teams are often forced to trade off the quality of their product against the speed of shipping. At Atlassian, we’ve pioneered a different approach, known as Quality Assistance. Instead of creating a separate test team to […]
Jira 6.3: Untangle Development
Software teams can now easily implement development best practices and world-class project tracking at the same time. Jira 6.3 is more tightly integrated with Stash and Bitbucket for teams using Git and Crucible for teams using Subversion, Perforce, and Mercurial. Jira automatically updates issues the moment development of an issue is complete. We’ve also enhanced […]
Awesome issues for Git branching workflows
At the heart of every software team is a vibrant culture around creation, organization, and delivery of work. All types of work – be it new features, bugs, spikes… are called ‘issues’ inside of Jira. Issues provide a flexible way to organize and distribute work across the team so that everyone remains productive and the […]
Organizing issues with priority to optimize delivery
I’ve had a number of people ask me lately, “How can I use priority to better manage issues inside of Jira Software?” Throughout my career in software, different teams have used priority to communicate different processes inside of their issue tracking systems. Failure to be crisp about the definition of priority makes work more confusing to get done. […]
Manage scope with the new release burndown chart
Today I’m excited to announce the availability of the new release burndown chart inside of Jira Agile labs. The release burndown chart gives the team clear insight into the evolution of a release throughout its life cycle. [cta]It’s every scrum software team’s goal to deliver new features and optimizations to their customer base. Many software teams […]
Task management with Confluence and Jira
I’d like to take a few moments to share how task management in Confluence relates to Jira. Both products enable teams to collaborate using task management and distribution. Confluence works well for smaller business teams, whereas Jira excels for larger projects. Getting from here to goal People rally around goals. For goals to be actionable, we need to break them […]
Deliver well: requirements to deployment
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap! 2 Moving from roadmaps to requirements 3 Deliver well: requirements to deployment Prioritizing requirements using epics and versions Now that we have all of the requirements as user stories for a particular feature inside of Jira, it’s […]
Moving from roadmaps to requirements
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap! 2 Moving from roadmaps to requirements 3 Deliver well: requirements to deployment If you’re still with me after my agile heresy, Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap!, then I’d like to move down to the next level […]
Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap!
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap! 2 Moving from roadmaps to requirements 3 Deliver well: requirements to deployment Give context to your teams Roadmapping has always been a dirty word in agile circles. In some ways it feels inherently waterfall to plan a […]
6 ways to optimize development with a control chart
The all-new control chart makes it easy for teams to better understand their delivery pipeline to help optimize their process. It highlights differences in estimate and delivery time so that the team can continually make better estimates and deliver more reliably. Today we’re going to explore how it can help your team, but if you haven’t […]
Now in Jira Agile Labs: an all new control chart
I’m excited to announce the release of a new version of the control chart into Jira Agile Labs. Why am I so excited? The control chart provides insight into day-to-day operations, so scrum and kanban teams can easily spot long-running issues for better flow. The new control chart is interactive, so digging into the details […]