Monthly Archives: January 2012

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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(Guest blog) Enter the Defect: When In Doubt, Report the Bug

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. It's written by Richard Hale, a Senior Consultant & Director of Quality Assurance with Go2Group. As an Atlassian Platinum Expert, Go2Group provides its clients with world-class ALM and Testing services, with expertise in integration solutions for Atlassian, HP, Perforce, MuleSoft, IBM, and

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SourceTree 1.3 Release Blog – Welcome to the Party!

We peeled back the covers on SourceTree - Atlassian's Mac Client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems, and we are announcing a fresh new logo, a redesigned website, and a new set of useful features to support your DVCS workflow. Plus, SourceTree is now FREE for all users, forever. What's New in SourceTree 1.3? Submodule & Subrepository Support Feel free to use Git submodules or Hg subrepositories with your projects - SourceTree now supports both. Submodules and

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AtlasCamp Europe 2012 agenda is now live!

If you haven't heard, AtlasCamp is coming to Europe on March 22nd and 23rd -- fun times ahead! AtlasCamp is our annual developer event. Usually, we only hold this event in Half Moon Bay, California. This year we've decided to bring the party to our European developers. And today, we've posted the agenda filled with great content. This will be a great opportunity to mingle with Atlassian product managers, developers, and ecosystem members. If you're interested in what AtlasCamp is all about, checkout

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(Guest blog) Tackling the top 10 games development problems using Atlassian tools

Atlassian has been helping hundreds of game developers produce the top games of the day for years now. It seems like just yesterday when we had Steve Weibe, of 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' fame, at our GDC booth trying to best his Donkey Kong world record. Alas, that was years ago, and so many games have been developed since then utilizing our tools. This is a guest blog post by Gareth Wilson from Adaptavist who are an Atlassian Platinum Expert. Adaptavist provide services and

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Practical JIRA Plugins – A book by Matt Doar

I’ve always thought of software development as a creative process. It’s much more than just using tools and pushing bits and bytes around. However, without the right tools and knowledge to use them, crafting software becomes very difficult. Atlassian’s plugin framework is a powerful tool for developers looking to build on top of our products. It allows you to apply one of our core values, “be the change you seek,” directly to our software. However, the power this framework provides is

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