Tame an unruly backlog with GreenHopper 6.1 – Available Today
Enterprise Admins – Be sure to check out the Scaling GreenHopper guide. Product owners are occasionally struck with awe at just how large their product backlog has grown. The GreenHopper team has been exploring this problem and we’re happy to announce a solution – Epics, your key to taming a growing backlog. Try GreenHopper 6.1 Today ‘When will […]
Having trouble with scope change? Here’s a tip.
I was just writing a response to a question posed on a GreenHopper documentation page. It is worth sharing more broadly as I’ve seen similar queries a few times recently. The fact that I can drag and drop inside a sprint, from one unstarted sprint to another, from one unstarted to start sprint, but not out […]
Webhooks Deep Dive: Notify customer via SMS when their service request needs attention
Webhooks are available in Jira 5.2 – full details in Unlock the Power of Search with Jira 5.2. OnDemand customers have already been upgraded. In this article we will explore how a customer service team can resolve requests faster by updating customers of issue progress using SMS. This customer service team uses Jira and GreenHopper to […]
Bonfire 2.6 – Add images of native apps
G’day folks, The Bonfire Team has just released Bonfire 2.6 and it has a killer feature that will particularly excite teams testing native applications. If you are testing a Windows, Mac or Linux desktop application try the following and let us know if it solves your native application testing needs: 1) Get the image Mac, Windows […]
Get fancy with card colours in GreenHopper
A neat feature in GreenHopper is the ability to colour cards based upon JQL. Over the past two days I’ve visited two great customers and each of them came up with a novel way to use the card colours in their environment. I wanted to share them ASAP so you can start using them Monday […]
With Bonfire 2.5, Test Sessions are 1st Class
Hot on the heels of the Bonfire 2.4 release, which allows you to attach any file to an issue created via the browser extension, we are thrilled to announce Bonfire 2.5 with Test Sessions. This latest release elevates Test Sessions to a whole new level. Prior to this release Test Sessions were available via the Project page, or […]
Agile Q&A – GreenHopper Time Estimates with Sub-Tasks
This blog post is an edited excerpt of an Atlassian Answers question posted by Brad Albrecht. GreenHopper Product Manager Shaun Clowes responds with a detailed response to Brad’s post. Brad’s Question I have recently transitioned my projects over to a Scrum board with the latest GreenHopper updates. I use time for estimates so when I am […]
GreenHopper Innovation Week
Between Atlassian Summit and the launch of GreenHopper 6 the team took a break to conduct an innovation week. Basically the team had saved up their 20% time over a number of weeks to put it to use during one week. Like all Atlassian 20% time the team get to choose what they want to […]
Scrum Q&A with the GreenHopper Product Manager
Software development teams are increasingly making the switch to Agile. Scrum is an approach to development that emphasises the delivery of working software in fixed length iterations (termed sprints), and Scrum is the most popular Agile development methodology. In this instalment of the Atlassian Agile series we asked GreenHopper product manager Shaun Clowes for his thoughts on […]
7th Annual State of Agile Development Survey
Every year we ask our customers to participate in the State of Agile Development Survey. The survey provides everyone invested in the software development industry great insight into team practices and emerging trends. Please set aside 15 minutes and complete the survey today. Protip: share it with your colleagues too.
Catch the replay: GreenHopper 6 Webinar
If you haven’t already heard, we launched GreenHopper 6 this week. It’s a knock your socks off release packed full of greatness! View a recording of the launch webinar below to see for yourself. Watch it now! Check out the webinar recording here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-_qCly1vog If you have any questions reach us at @GreenHopperTeam, via Atlassian Answers, or […]
Unlock the Power of Agile: Introducing GreenHopper 6
There are a few big moments in the life of any product: when it’s born, obviously; when it starts to delight its first batch of customers; and then, every so often, a shining moment when it changes the game. GreenHopper has had a storied life so far, faithfully serving over 650,000 users worldwide and leading […]
GreenHopper Usage Survey Results, June 2012
The @GreenHopperTeam surveyed our customers in June to learn more about how teams are using the product today. We’ve done this in the past and will do it again in the future as it is a great way to see how teams and organisations evolve over time. We use this information to inform our roadmap, so thank […]
Bonfire 2.2 – Better Issue Creation for All
The Bonfire team has delivered some awesome features recently for any team that is conducing exploratory testing. With the release of Bonfire 2.2 we’ve made issue creation easier for other people in the organisation, the technical writers, product owners, designers and managers. With the Bonfire 2.2 release we are proud to introduce some great features […]
Announcing GreenHopper 5.10 – The Best Tool for Scrum Teams
We have completely rewritten GreenHopper from the ground up to support Scrum teams in their daily activities. Our goal was to make GreenHopper the best tool to use during every sprint activity – backlog grooming, sprint planning, executing and reporting. We value individuals and interactions over processes and tools as much as the next team. […]