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Previously, I showed you some of the great improvements made to issue tracking in JIRA 4.1. Today, I want to talk about one of the coolest additions to the new UI: the Operations Bar.
As I mentioned in the JIRA 4.1 announcement yesterday, we plan to do a deep dive on many of the new features and improvements in JIRA 4.1. This is the first of many posts doing just that and I'll start off with probably the most noticeable improvement: the view issue page.
Our focus on user experience started long ago, back in JIRA 4. We laid the foundation with improvements to the dashboard and browsing projects in that release. And with this release we continued those efforts by focusing on working
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I'm excited to announce the general availability of JIRA 4.1. This release is packed with improvements making your everyday interactions with JIRA easier and faster. A few of the highlights include the following:
Clean and simple UI - Building on the UI improvements in JIRA 4, the revamped issue and user profile pages make it easier to view issue details and take action on your issues. Key information, like people and dates, is grouped together. You can now manage attachments with the new image
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I'm happy to announce the general availability of GreenHopper 4.4 (for JIRA 4.1). In addition to providing compatibility with the latest release of JIRA, this release also includes a handful of new improvements, including:
Days Remaining gadget - This new gadget shows the number of days left in a given sprint or release (version). Perfect for keeping an eye on one or more projects from your JIRA dashboard.
Issue links - Jump directly from an issue to the Planning Board or Task Board using the
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A few months ago, an interesting question appeared on the LinkedIn discussions for the Agile Alliance: Any recommended tools for Agile and Scrum based software development?
Since this commentary very much represents the pulse of the community, I planned to do an analysis of the "experts" recommended tools for agile and scrum, but Udayan Banerjee beat me to it. Nevertheless, the results were quite impressive with JIRA and GreenHopper leading the way. Here's my take as to why.. what's yours?
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As I mentioned previously, in preparation for the Game Developers Conference 2010 Atlassian decided to survey our game development customers to find out a little more about their teams and how they use our tools. The survey was sent to almost 600 customers at over 150 different game development companies and we got responses from over 35 different companies. Check out the results..
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