Why did you GO JIRA?

  • By Ken Olofsen, Product Marketing Manager - JIRA
  • About JIRA
  • On May 16, 2012
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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GreenHopper Release – Scope Change and User Story Swimlanes

Before we get into the brilliant improvements to the Rapid Board for Scrum teams, check out this new video: http://youtu.be/v41Z7eOxMZ0 GreenHopper, Bamboo and JIRA work together wonderfully to support Agile teams: Teams can see the full build history for any user story, There is automated testing of all new story branches as they are created, Teams have the ability to push user stories to production continuously or manually (see Continuous Deploy One Byte at a Time), plus much

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(Guest Post) Implement Role-Based JIRA Dashboards to Keep a Process Flowing

This is a guest blog by Dan Mihalache, a JIRA and Confluence expert with a passion for designing, implementing and optimizing processes. Dan is a senior project manager at Murex, a leader in software development for trading, risk management and processing solutions. The Process Roadmap What makes JIRA a great tool for me is that it allows the easy implementation of processes in general. You can model whatever you want to model, define steps, validations, conditions, roles and responsibilities,

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Atlassian Developer Artwork: Bonfire’d Art

Since we released the awesome new screenshot annotation tool in Bonfire 2.1 we've seen a few interesting bugs raised by our internal users (for their own products, not Bonfire) Link to Issue Nav Duplicates Project Clause Klingon in Error Message   Swimlane Not Shown, AKA "The Mickey Mouse" Issue Key Wraps The Mona Lisa What Bonfire'd Art have you seen during your bug triage sessions? What has turned up during a test session? Let me know, and include

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Linking Bitbucket with the JIRA issue tracker

  • By Jeff Park, Product Marketing Specialist - Dev Tools
  • About Dev Tools
  • On April 30, 2012
The Bitbucket team has been working hard to bring distributed version control (DVCS) capabilities to Atlassian's JIRA to help complete your development suite. In February, we released the JIRA DVCS Connector; this nifty plugin allowed you to jump to your Bitbucket or GitHub repositories straight from the JIRA Commits tab. Today, we are introducing Bitbucket Links. With Bitbucket Links, you can use issue keys to link to JIRA or other development tools you use straight from Bitbucket. The

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JIRA 5 Deep Dive: Admin Luv

As a JIRA administrator, you've no doubt heard and seen some of the highlights of JIRA 5 - big features to connect people, activity and applications across your organization. For administrators, we've opted for - as SD Times put it - 'A relentless focus on saving you 5 minutes here and there'. While these incremental improvements aren't grabbing any headlines, you don't want to miss them! Here are some of the admin highlights of JIRA 5, designed to free up your time so you can play Angry Nerds or

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