Archives for Nicholas Muldoon

In this sneak peek of the Rapid Board we will take a look at some key features of GreenHopper, features that are going to make Kanban development and operations teams jump for joy! Existing GreenHopper customers will be over the moon too as the Rapid Board answers many of the most requested features, including the ability to visualise multiple JIRA projects at once, a separate field to track sprint information, permanent URLs for each page, ranking performance and auditing improvements, plus

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Product updates: GreenHopper & JIRA Wallboards Plugin

I'm happy to announce that GreenHopper 5.2.3 and the JIRA Wallboards Plugin 1.3.1 are now available. While both of these are minor product releases, we've managed to pack some excellent usability enhancements into each one. The JIRA Wallboards plugin, which turns JIRA into an information radiator by presenting GreenHopper and compatible OpenSocial gadgets on a big screen, has been a pleasant distraction for the GreenHopper team to work on. We will continue to improve this plugin as we use it day-to-day

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Take part in the State of Agile Development survey

It's that time of year again.. the 5th annual State of Agile Development survey is currently being conducted. I encourage you to participate and share your impressions of the current state of agile development. Last year, JIRA showed very well in this survey as the most popular development-specific tool used by agile development teams (coming in at 24%, only behind MS Project and Excel). Maybe this year we will jump up even further in the standings. With over a quarter of all JIRA customers

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GreenHopper now available in Spanish

Today Atlassian is proud to announce the inclusion of a Spanish language pack with GreenHopper 5.2. The global growth of GreenHopper, which now has over 12,000 customers, resulted in huge demand from Spanish speakers for a localised release. Aprende más sobre GreenHopper 5.2 en español. Some of the great features of recent GreenHopper releases include: Project Templates - The built-in Scrum project template configures everything necessary for Scrum teams to instantly start capturing user stories,

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Oz News: Devops Down Under

"Devops" is a movement of like-minded sysadmins and developers interested in bridging the artificial gap between our camps. It's impossible for sysadmins to do their job without reading or writing code, and developers need intimate systems knowledge to scale their software. Building on the tremendous success of Devopsdays in 2009, Australian developers and sysadmins are invited to Devops Down Under - a conference about advancing processes & methodologies, building better tools, and improving

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Introduce agile today with GreenHopper 4.3

GreenHopper 4.3 is ready for the prime time, this is a particularly special release for us as we have taken a huge stride towards enabling your team to get started with agile today. Seriously. Getting started with agile Prior to GreenHopper 4.3 a customer would have to undertake a number of steps detailed in the GreenHopper 101 to get started. While retaining the flexibility existing customers have come to love and expect we are making it easier for new customers to get up and running with agile

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