Get fancy with card colours in GreenHopper

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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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Card Colours

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.   Card colours allow you to quickly identify cards on your board as being of a particular issue type, priority, assignee, or — thanks to the power of JQL — practically anything you choose. We're visual people, so why are our GreenHopper cards all the same colour?  With a new feature of GreenHopper (versions

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Agile Q&A – GreenHopper Time Estimates with Sub-Tasks

This blog post is an edited excerpt of an Atlassian Answers question posted by Brad Albrecht. GreenHopper Product Manager Shaun Clowes responds with a detailed response to Brad's post. Brad's Question I have recently transitioned my projects over to a Scrum board with the latest GreenHopper updates.  I use time for estimates so when I am building a sprint, I can see how long the estimated issues are going to take, and keep it under 2 weeks per dev. Some of the issues already have

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GreenHopper Innovation Week

Between Atlassian Summit and the launch of GreenHopper 6 the team took a break to conduct an innovation week. Basically the team had saved up their 20% time over a number of weeks to put it to use during one week. Like all Atlassian 20% time the team get to choose what they want to work on, in this case we saw three neat features come to light: GreenHopper TV GreenHopper TV came out of the desire for our customers to be able to update their board on one computer and see the results on another.

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Artifact Passing for Agile Teams

August isn't officially "Agile Month", but with so much of my attention focused on the Agile2012 conference held a couple weeks ago, that's what it feels like.  So I've been blowing the dust off my trusty ol' Scrum Master hat and thinking more about team processes lately.  When teams decide to go agile, they do so with visions of smoothly flowing burndown charts dancing in their heads.  Not that the chart itself is important.  It's what that smooth burndown line represents: a team that is firing

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Using GreenHopper to Automate Bamboo & Bitbucket (“What the whaaaa?…”)

There are several crude expressions to describe the heat & humidity in Dallas where the Agile2012 conference recently took place --most of which involve the words "satan" and "balls". Which-ever is your personal favorite, just mentally insert that here. Now you get the picture. So I was pretty content to be inside at the Atlassian booth demoing the heck out of JIRA, GreenHopper and Bamboo. It's great to hear what customers are interested in, and it's been no surprise to find that lots of them

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