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...
Laura Daly
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...