Case Study: Why did APRA|AMCOS Go JIRA?

About APRA|AMCOS APRA|AMCOS work to ensure that composers, songwriters and publishers are rewarded whenever and wherever their musical works are played, performed or reproduced. They also help Australian & New Zealand music consumers get access to the world’s musical repertoire. APRA (Australasian Performing Rights Association) and AMCOS (Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) are separate not-for-profit organizations, but a number of members belong to both, so AMCOS appointed APRA

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JIRA Highlights from Summit

The fourth annual Atlassian Summit last week capped off an exciting first half of 2012 for the JIRA family, and let us in on a few sneak peeks for what's to come in the next few months. Here's a wrap-up of all the big news. JIRA 5.1 with Inline Edit JIRA 5.1 is going to save you tons of time. New features will include inline edit and actions - many with no page reloads - and back-end performance improvements for large instances. Modify fields directly when viewing an issue Operations no longer

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Announcing GreenHopper 5.10 – The Best Tool for Scrum Teams

We have completely rewritten GreenHopper from the ground up to support Scrum teams in their daily activities. Our goal was to make GreenHopper the best tool to use during every sprint activity - backlog grooming, sprint planning, executing and reporting. We value individuals and interactions over processes and tools as much as the next team. GreenHopper 5.10 is there to support your Agile team, not dictate how you should operate. It is flexible enough to adapt for mature Scrum teams while providing

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(Guest blog) Face-to-Face Across the Globe

This is a guest post by Sococo, a sponsor at Atlassian Summit 2012. One of the founding principles of Agile development (from www.agilemanifesto.org) is that “The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.” But we all know that development teams are increasingly distributed—often across the globe. At Sococo we use JIRA, GreenHopper and Confluence to structure and track work and capture content relevant

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GreenHopper Drinkup – San Francisco, May 24

Calling all GreenHopper Gurus in San Francisco! Shaun Clowes of the GreenHopper team in Sydney is visiting San Francisco for Atlassian Summit. He'd love to buy you a pint. Or three. Join Shaun, myself and other GreenHopper Gurus on Thursday May 24 from 6pm at Thirsty Bear. Find us in the Billar Room. Shaun and I are keen to learn how you are using GreenHopper. We are happy to chat all things Agile/Kanban/Scrum/DevOps and we will also have time to answer any GreenHopper questions you

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Why did you GO JIRA?

We have recently been talking to lots of customers about the main reasons why they decided to GO JIRA. Whether they switched to JIRA from an old bug tracker or just started up a new project, we found the same reasons came up again and again. Top reasons to GO JIRA Here are the top 5 reasons why our customers decide to GO JIRA: Polished User Experience - Create, update, and work through issues using a fast and intuitive web interface with lightning-quick keyboard shortcuts. Customizable Workflows

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