Making releases a "non-event" is one of the goals many teams aspire to when they adopt agile development practices.  That might mean releasing several times daily, or (more likely) at the end of each iteration. Either way, most teams eventually normalize on some flavor of continuous delivery. A common flavor is to build the code and deploy it to a test environment several times a day, then pause at that point in the pipeline.  Every few days (or weeks), you look through the builds that passed all

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3 Reasons Enterprise Admins Love JIRA 5.2

The release of JIRA 5.2 has already generated a ton of great feedback about the new JIRA search experience and we're excited to see lot's of customers wasting little time upgrading their JIRA instance to the latest and greatest. https://twitter.com/tibulski/status/268073259885535232 While the JIRA 5.2 headline features of search, webhooks and workflow improvements are compelling for all JIRA users, there are three big reasons why administrators of our larger Enterprise deployments are going to

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Webhooks are available in JIRA 5.2 - full details in Unlock the Power of Search with JIRA 5.2. OnDemand customers have already been upgraded. In this article we will explore how a customer service team can resolve requests faster by updating customers of issue progress using SMS. This customer service team uses JIRA and GreenHopper to manage all customer requests, and with the introduction of Webhooks in JIRA 5.2 they have extended their workflow to integrate with a third-party SMS service. Why

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Friends, do you have trouble finding the ketchup in your own refrigerator? Do you require Google Maps just to get to the corner store? Ever want to teleport from your seat at the game to that one beer stand across the stadium that sells your favorite craft brew? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you'll be as excited as we are about this weekend's Atlassian OnDemand release - full of goodies for the navigationally-challenged and busy user! Members of the OnDemand team have

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Company: Resume Companion Founded: 2009 HQ: Maryland Employees: 18 Products: JIRA OnDemand with JIRA,GreenHopper, Bamboo and Confluence Atlassian gets extremely excited when we receive unsolicited praise. I jumped at the chance to followup with a customer who submitted a really nice note on our public feedback form. It's not everyday that a customer will come forward and share their story. On the form, the customer mentioned "During our growth we have found Atlassian to

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A neat feature in GreenHopper is the ability to colour cards based upon JQL. Over the past two days I've visited two great customers and each of them came up with a novel way to use the card colours in their environment. I wanted to share them ASAP so you can start using them Monday morning. It's Friday 651pm in San Francisco and I'm about go watch the Sydney Swans win the AFL Grand Final at the pub - this is so cool it couldn't wait until Monday. Anyways... Twitter The cool folks at Twitter

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