GreenHopper Drinkup – San Francisco, May 24
Calling all GreenHopper Gurus in San Francisco! Shaun Clowes of the GreenHopper team in Sydney is visiting San Francisco for Atlassian Summit. He’d love to buy you a pint. Or three. Join Shaun, myself and other GreenHopper Gurus on Thursday May 24 from 6pm at Thirsty Bear. Find us in the Billar Room. Shaun and I are […]
GreenHopper Release – Scope Change and User Story Swimlanes
Before we get into the brilliant improvements to the Rapid Board for Scrum teams, check out this new video: http://youtu.be/v41Z7eOxMZ0 GreenHopper, Bamboo and Jira work together wonderfully to support Agile teams: Teams can see the full build history for any user story, There is automated testing of all new story branches as they are created, […]
Atlassian Developer Artwork: Bonfire’d Art
Since we released the awesome new screenshot annotation tool in Bonfire 2.1 we’ve seen a few interesting bugs raised by our internal users (for their own products, not Bonfire) Link to Issue Nav Duplicates Project Clause Klingon in Error Message Swimlane Not Shown, AKA “The Mickey Mouse” Issue Key Wraps The Mona Lisa What Bonfire’d […]
Bonfire 2.1 – Amazing Annotations for Agile Defect Prevention
Our goal with Bonfire is to help you deliver quality working software to your customers. Agile defect prevention is an approach whereby you find and address bugs before your customers experience them. Bonfire facilitates agile defect prevention and provides confidence that you are delivering quality working software to your customers. Bonfire helps you deliver quality working […]
GreenHopper 5.9.4 – Make Agile your home
Over the past 45 days we have released GreenHopper 5.9, 5.9.1 and 5.9.3. Today I am excited to announce GreenHopper 5.9.4 which includes the ability to make GreenHopper your home within Jira. GreenHopper 5.9 marked the introduction of the Rapid Board for Scrum into GreenHopper Labs, our proving ground for new functionality. Today we’re giving early […]
GreenHopper 5.9.3 – Sprint Retrospective Report
GreenHopper 5.9.3 is now available. In this release we have focused our attention on backlog grooming and starting a sprint retrospective. These features are available as part of GreenHopper Labs and we are actively seeking your feedback. Sprint Retrospective An important part of every sprint is the retrospective. A great way to start a retrospective […]
Agile Defect Prevention
This is a guest blog by David Jellison of Constant Contact, the original post appears here. David will be sharing his story of scaling Kanban in the Enterprise at Atlassian Summit. I recall a day in the late ’90′s when assessing readiness for deployment of an application at Kodak after a several month long release cycle […]
New GreenHopper! 5.9.1 with more Rapid Board for Scrum features
It wasn’t long ago that we released GreenHopper 5.9 and introduced the Rapid Board for Scrum into GreenHopper Labs, our proving ground for new functionality. Today we’re giving early adopters of the Rapid Board for Scrum even more to play with, specifically: Add stories to an in-progress sprint Drag and drop the issue in […]
The Jira Development Team’s Journey to NoOps Freedom with Bryce Johnson
Agile teams that have bridged the gap between development and operations can deliver value to their customers faster. In this presentation Atlassian build engineer Bryce Johnson explains how one team re-defined their definition of done to include delivery. Bryce will share the engineering challenges involved with scaling a build system and also […]
GreenHopper 5.9 available today
We’ve been listening to your feedback on the Rapid Board for Scrum features over the past few weeks – it has been constructive feedback, so please keep it coming. We have also received some very encouraging feedback: Love the new Rapid Board and the ability to use JQL to define the swim lanes. It is an […]
Scrum for GreenHopper Rapid Board in Labs
Since the release of the Rapid Board in GreenHopper 5.8 we have made a number of improvements to the Rapid Board for Kanban teams – a Jira Wallboard gadget, performance improvements, the ability to copy views, the Getting Started screen and an interactive cumulative flow diagram. Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Scrum […]
The Kaizen Project – Continuous improvement for your Agile team
is a new source of information to assist Agile teams in continually improving their practices and processes. Kaizen is the Japanese word for ‘improvement’ and The Kaizen Project shares best practice stories from around the globe. Topics from innovation to continuous deployment are covered, along with everything in between. Teams at Atlassian are always looking for, […]
Usability Testing with Paper Prototyping
This is a guest blog by Richard Duinmayer and Gert-Jan Bartelds of Avisi, an Atlassian Expert based in the Netherlands. Richard and Gert-Jan are members of Testnet, the Dutch software testers’ professional association. On November 8th 2011 they took part in a Testnet workshop on usability testing. More specifically, the topic was “the use of paper prototyping […]
Introduction to a new JavaScript language, “Roy”, with Brian McKenna
Atlassian developer Brian McKenna has been working on a new programming language, Roy, since May 2011. In this video Brian shares his motivation for building Roy as well as where the language is heading in the future. More discussion about Roy can be found in a recent Hacker News article. Resources: More information on Roy […]
Paper Prototypes with Jay Rogers
In this video GreenHopper designer Jay Rogers explains what paper prototyping is and how you can start using it within your own team. This was filmed shortly after a paper prototyping session he conducted for the GreenHopper team around upcoming Scrum functionality on the Rapid Board. Resources: Todd Zaki Warfel presentations on SlideShare Follow @jbrogers A […]