GreenHopper Tip of the Month: T is for Toggle

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. In the past we've looked many times at JIRA keyboard shortcuts, including my four favorites. Today I'd like to share with you my favorite GreenHopper keyboard shortcut: T! Whenever you find yourself in need of more details for any issue on the Plan or Work board in GreenHopper, simply hit "t" to toggle the detail view

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Set your homepage to Agile

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks.   Save 2 clicks a day by setting your JIRA home to Agile How do you access GreenHopper?  Do you go to JIRA, click the Agile tab, then choose your Rapid Board?  Wouldn't it be better if you were taken directly to your Rapid Board?  It takes 2 seconds, here's how: Open up JIRA and click your icon in the top right

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How To Indicate you are Waiting

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Here are 3 ways to indicate you are waiting on other work to be done before you start working on your task. Say you need to update a page, but are waiting on your designer to give you the polished images, or you are waiting for your PM to get the wireframes approved before you start development, how do you indicate to the

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Screencast: Agile Best Practices from Code School

Code School is a community of web professionals who use video, in-browser coding, and themed challenges to let you play courses, win badges, and learn by doing. Their 10-15 minute videos are designed to get you up to speed on a concept or practice, teaching web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons and coding challenges. Free Screencast: Agile Best Practices Agile software development methodologies like Scrum are easy to learn, but hard to master. It's easy to get some

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Improving Agile Estimation via Triangulation

Yves Riel has been exploring Scrum by participating as a team member, a Scrum Master and a Product Owner. He also acts as a Scrum Coach to help teams learn the Scrum methodology. Yves has actively been using JIRA and GreenHopper since 2009. Benjamin Franklin once said that there were two certainties in this world: death and taxes. I suspect that if Benjamin Franklin had been in the software industry, he would have added “estimation” to the lot. Although there are some heated debates on the

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Why Developers <3 CI: a guide to loving continuous integration

There's a new report out from our pals at ZeroTurnaround's Rebel Labs covering the value of continuous integration, commonly used tools & technologies (Atlassian's own Bamboo gets a nice shout-out), and how CI works in a team setting. Whether you're an agilist getting your team started with CI, or automated testing enthusiast looking to scale up and trick out your system, you'll want to read this. Or you could just read it for the StarCraft references http://vimeo.com/57681312 Get the

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