Monthly Archives: November 2010

The Ultimate Wallboard – the Community Fav

Winner: The Community Favourite WallboardCongratulations to Gert-Jan van de Streek from Avisi for being voted the Community Favourite Wallboard winner in the Ultimate Wallboard contest.Despite entering the contest late, Gert-Jan's wallboard racked up 305 votes.  His wallboard is definitely impressive, boasting a slick design for real-time stats and status across all teams and all projects. Data is integrated from JIRA, GreenHopper and several other systems.  The wallboard even features

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Sneak peek: REST in JIRA 4.3 Milestone 1

We're working on several improvements to the REST API in JIRA 4.3. This is a sneak peek at what's available in the first milestone release of JIRA 4.3.Search for issues and projects using JQL One of the top complaints that we received regarding the REST API in JIRA 4.2 was the lack of searching and discovery capabilities for issues and projects. It was easy enough to request an issue once you knew its key, but it wasn't possible to discover the key through the REST API. In JIRA 4.3 Milestone 1, the

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How does Atlassian encourage software renewals?

Atlassian has a reputation for doing business somewhat differently than traditional Enterprise Software companies. Examples are:Providing free 30-day evaluations (with Support!)Showing all of our pricing on our websiteHaving all of our documentation accessible online (to anybody!)Giving Source Code to our customers (no need for escrow agreements!)Having no salespeopleNot requiring customers to purchase software renewalsIn this blog post, I'll discuss those last two topics in a bit more detail.No

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JIRA 4.3 Milestone 1 – Early Access Preview

Frequent releases are a characteristic of how we do things here at Atlassian. These milestones releases are available via the Early Access Program (EAP) and they come thick and fast for most of our products. The JIRA team has been a little hit and miss with releasing regular milestone builds, but we are determined to change this.  For the JIRA 4.3 development cycle, we plan to release a new milestone every two weeks. Of course, these milestones represent a point in time in the development cycle

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Webinar: JIRA extended for Project Management

On December 2nd we will host a webinar on a tool which extends JIRA for Project Management. Onepoint's JIRA Connector extends JIRA's project management capabilities by integrating them into a complete, but still easy-to-use enterprise project management solution. By combining the strengths of JIRA's dynamic agile task management environment with Onepoint's built-in resource management and project controlling & reporting capabilities, you can seamlessly integrate JIRA-based

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Designing JIRA – Paper Prototyping

Well it was bound to happen! The Colouring-In Team have regressed to our childhoods, picked up our crayons and got creative!Our previous work, pretty pages such as new View Issue, Issue Nav and dialogs, have all had quite small scope - though they weren't small pieces of work. The next section we plan on attacking is codenamed "Project Ignite" and is all about project configuration. There are 2 main targets for this release: New Users (primary) - Allowing them to comprehend the power of JIRA quicker

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