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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Organize with Epics

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks.   Epics, which were introduced in GreenHopper 6.1, are a group of related user stories and usually capture a large body of work or a big project.  For example, the University team currently has an epic for all work related to an upcoming homepage redesign.  We had an epic for all work related to our better, faster,

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University 2.0 – Better, Faster, Stronger

We just released the University lessons for Confluence 5.0, and are debuting a brand new lesson type.  Still giving you the same great training and experience, the lessons are now significantly faster.  We have revamped our look to make it a bit easier on the eyes. Additionally, the training is not done in a shared environment like previous versions. This is the simplest, easiest-to-use training yet!   See the New University Lessons  

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Set your homepage to Agile

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks.   Save 2 clicks a day by setting your JIRA home to Agile How do you access GreenHopper?  Do you go to JIRA, click the Agile tab, then choose your Rapid Board?  Wouldn't it be better if you were taken directly to your Rapid Board?  It takes 2 seconds, here's how: Open up JIRA and click your icon in the top right

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How To Indicate you are Waiting

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Here are 3 ways to indicate you are waiting on other work to be done before you start working on your task. Say you need to update a page, but are waiting on your designer to give you the polished images, or you are waiting for your PM to get the wireframes approved before you start development, how do you indicate to the

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How Atlassian uses GreenHopper

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. To build great products, we use the same exact products we offer to you.  Lets take a sneak peak at how the Interactive Marketing team uses GreenHopper to plan sprints and get stuff done.  The 8 of us in the Interactive team at Atlassian manage the Atlassian website, Atlassian University, videos and various design

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Keyboard Shortcuts

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Zip around GreenHopper even faster with Keyboard Shortcuts If you live within GreenHopper, use these keyboard shortcuts to save you a few seconds with every action.  Over time, the seconds you save will add up. Here are the GreenHopper specific shortcuts: Use 'j' to go to the next issue (down) in a column Use

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