GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How Atlassian uses GreenHopper

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. To build great products, we use the same exact products we offer to you.  Lets take a sneak peak at how the Interactive Marketing team uses GreenHopper to plan sprints and get stuff done.  The 8 of us in the Interactive team at Atlassian manage the Atlassian website, Atlassian University, videos and various design

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Keyboard Shortcuts

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. Zip around GreenHopper even faster with Keyboard Shortcuts If you live within GreenHopper, use these keyboard shortcuts to save you a few seconds with every action.  Over time, the seconds you save will add up. Here are the GreenHopper specific shortcuts: Use 'j' to go to the next issue (down) in a column Use

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Tame an unruly backlog with GreenHopper 6.1 – Available Today

Enterprise Admins - Be sure to check out the Scaling GreenHopper guide. Product owners are occasionally struck with awe at just how large their product backlog has grown. The GreenHopper team has been exploring this problem and we’re happy to announce a solution – Epics, your key to taming a growing backlog. Try GreenHopper 6.1 Today 'When will we ship?' Product owners are often asked how much more work is needed until a feature is ready to ship. A big feature can be represented

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Having trouble with scope change? Here’s a tip.

I was just writing a response to a question posed on a GreenHopper documentation page. It is worth sharing more broadly as I've seen similar queries a few times recently. The fact that I can drag and drop inside a sprint, from one unstarted sprint to another, from one unstarted to start sprint, but not out of a started sprint is extraordinarily frustrating. Right now for each issue I want to move, I am forced into a baffling 5-click process. JIRA seems to follow a pattern of design decisions that

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Breaking the Build: agile, continuous integration, and the Light

This guest post from Kate Carruthers is a companion to the dev-oriented post about building the Bamboo plugin, which was published last week. Kate has worked in software development and web since the dark ages. In more recent times she's been a scrum coach and agile project manager. She recently saw the Light and though it would be fun to join the Moore's Cloud team. In a past life I used to manage globally dispersed web development teams.  When we used to run waterfall style projects then ‘breaking

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How Atlassian uses Quick Filters

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. How the Interactive team at Atlassian uses Quick Filters The Interactive team at Atlassian manages the Atlassian website, Atlassian University, videos and various design tasks. Let's take a quick look at how our team uses Quick Filters to further filter cards in the work and plan mode of the GreenHopper boards. By default,

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