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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 for the Rapid Board as a Labs feature. Scrum for Rapid Board Our initial release of Scrum for Rapid Board allows your team to: Prepare the backlog for the

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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, and finding, new ways increase velocity, improve quality and deliver more frequently. Find stories from these Agile teams on The

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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 in usability testing”, below is their experience report. What is Paper Prototyping? Paper prototyping an application is: Building

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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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtLb_l3K68A Resources: More information on Roy Follow @puffnfresh Fork the Roy repo on Bitbucket

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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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR6TPa6Czd4 Resources: Todd Zaki Warfel presentations on SlideShare Follow @jbrogers A paper prototyping example The GreenHopper team during a paper prototyping session. The

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Nextag uses GreenHopper for software development success

Software development teams are increasingly making the switch to Agile. A successful transformation is crucial for engineering leads and more important than ever as the business demands more value from engineering teams. Jeffrey Palmer, VP of Engineering at Nextag, is one leader who is currently undertaking an Agile transformation with his team. Over the past ten years Palmer has led transformations for a number of Agile teams. For the current switch Palmer is overseeing Scrum and Kanban teams.  Nextag is

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