4 new Jira Software features you didn’t know about
Since the launch of Jira Software, we’ve added some features to make the lives of every software team member easier. But you might not know these features exist! Read on to learn how these four features put more control of Jira projects into the hands of team leads, scrum masters, and developers. You can start using these features today, and we guarantee they’ll make you and your team more efficient.
Kanplan: where your backlog meets kanban
There’s no silver bullet when it comes to picking an agile framework for your agile team. Whether you use kanban, scrum, or a combination of the two, like scrumban, agile is a team process. Every team needs to figure out which framework works best as a foundation for how to plan, track, and release great software.
From Asana to Jira Software: one customer’s journey towards agile development
Switch Communications is a San Francisco based company whose mission is to provide cloud-based business communications systems for the fastest growing, most innovative companies in the world. Switch.co recently found that their project management software wasn’t fully supporting their software development process. The most glaring pain point was bug reporting, and they needed a single […]
Be more agile with new sprint permissions
Cue the music for one of Jira Software’s new permissions: manage sprints. Learn more about permissions and how they function behind the scenes to affect every member of your team. Plus, get an overview of how manage sprint permissions bring simplicity to planning and tracking work, remove overhead, and minimize risk for everyone – no more single points of failure and instead an environment in which the entire team can be more agile.
Three resolutions for better agile ceremonies
No matter where you fall on the scale from zero to agile, by mastering the basics of agile development, you and your team can make awesome software. So in the light of the new year and bettering oneself, I propose three resolutions for your team – each one focused on an agile ceremony.
4 tips for using Jira and Outlook
In a software development setting, it’s a common requirement to transfer information from emails to Jira Software, Jira Core, or Jira Service Desk. Have you ever wondered “Is there is a faster way to create a new issue?” Or “How do I work with the Jira Software notification emails?” These four best practices will answer those questions and show you how to get the most out of using Jira Software and Outlook together.
Inside Atlassian: designing software with the customer at heart
I decided to sit down with different Jira designers to learn how they reimagined Jira as Jira Software, Jira Core, and Jira Service desk from a design perspective. The stories were endless, but three things kept popping up in each designer’s story: design spikes, live data prototyping, and a stellar feedback collector.
Keeping projects on track: four lessons for development managers
Imagine you had a product with millions of users, over five million lines of code, and more than 100 developers working on it. And then your company decided that this product had the opportunity to become an even more successful platform. Check out how two of our development managers co-coordinated Jira’s move from product to platform.
Jira Software just got easier to navigate (and more fun, too)
The new customizable sidebar brings projects and your team to center stage in Jira Software. Read on for our list of conventional (and not-so-conventional) ways to use it.
Break it down: decomposing user stories in Jira
With over 500k agile projects in Jira (among just Cloud customers – wow!), we realized we’re sitting on a ton of data that sheds light on how agile teams function. We then bet, that with some anonymized data mining, we could find teams that have a release cadence that they hit sprint after sprint after sprint.
Webinar recap: How Hipchat went global using Atlassian tools
The Hipchat team went from one team in San Francisco to multiple teams across four time zones before anyone could blink – let alone think about how hard it is to pull that off. Josh Devenny (Hipchat Product Manager, San Francisco) and Dave Minnigerode (Hipchat Development Manager, Austin) gave a great webinar about how they […]
Assign, discuss, done: more Jira + Hipchat goodness
Together, Jira and Hipchat eliminate shoulder tapping while ensuring that agile teams can collaborate and communicate in real-time. Team members get the information they want, when and where they want it. Does it get any better than that?
Jira 6.4: Release with confidence and sanity
Jira 6.4 is all about shipping with confidence so your team can enjoy a stress-free release every time they ship code. But before we dive into more Jira 6.4 goodness (did you hear about the new Jira Hipchat integration?), let’s take a quick trip down memory lane.
Jira + Hipchat = real-time communication for agile teams
Until telepathy is mastered, software teams can enjoy the next best thing: the all-new Jira Hipchat integration. Shipped in Jira 6.4., teams can now instantly generate project-specific chat rooms and choose which Jira notifications are broadcast into each room. Teams will get the information they want, where they want it, in real time. This eliminates bothersome shoulder tapping, and messages that get lost in the shuffle. Heck, you won’t even need mind reading with this. Let’s dive in and learn more about how teams can resolve issues faster than ever with real-time communication and collaboration in Jira 6.4.
Webinar recap: Stop “going agile!”
Heather Fleming and Justin Riservato from Gilt shared their advice and experiences in helping teams and companies transition to an Agile methodology in their webinar, “Stop ‘Going Agile’: The three conversations you need to have before you start.” In their discussion, Heather and Justin highlighted why having alignment in how you approach agile is more important than implementing a process, especially when it comes to talking about deadlines, engagement, and people. Here, they selected some of the top questions from their Q&A sessions that dive a little deeper into some tactics on applying the methodologies discussed.