JIRA 5 Goes Social

JIRA 5 is the developer's platform for collaboration, connecting the people, activity and applications you work with every day. Software development involves your entire organization, and good software becomes great when you bring everyone into your development process. JIRA 5 is here, connecting the dots between the development process and the rest of your business. Your Platform for Collaboration Software is the center of much of our world today: it's in your car, on the phone in your pocket,

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Introducing JIRA Enterprise

Along with the launch of JIRA 5, I'm proud to announce JIRA Enterprise - tailored to the needs of our largest, most successful JIRA customers.  But before I do - let me share how the software industry has evolved. Every company is a software company It's an exciting time to be in the software industry. We interact with technology companies like Twitter, Facebook, Apple, ebay and Skype on a daily basis, in a way that we couldn't even conceive as recently as 10 years ago. But there is a broader

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Talk to your users. Build better apps. Get better reviews. These steps seem simple enough, but we're not surprised that things can get a little tricky when you try to walk the walk. How do you connect with your users and collect feedback with the detail you need to fix bugs quickly, add features relevantly, and make a better app overall? Well, mobile developers, ask and ye shall receive. Last October, we launched JIRA Mobile Connect, a tool to gather in-app feedback from your users. In

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Track What Matters in JIRA – Saved Filter Support in Team Calendars 1.9

Since more than half of Atlassian's JIRA customers also use Confluence, the Team Calendars development team has been working hard to tighten the integration between the two. We know that not everyone lives inside of JIRA and you've told us that your team members that work in Confluence want to keep track of the projects in JIRA too. Our latest release, Team Calendars 1.9, takes the integration to a whole new level by supporting saved JIRA filters, so you can create JIRA Calendars that track

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88 Reasons For JIRA

This is a guest post by Martin Seibert. He is the CEO of a German internet agency called //SEIBERT/MEDIA, a specialist in JIRA and corporate communication. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is one of Atlassian’s official partners in Germany and an Atlassian Platinum Expert. This blog post is also available in German at http://seibert.biz/jirareasons. 88 Reasons for JIRA For quite some time now, //SEIBERT/MEDIA has been using JIRA for both internal and external project management as well as software development.

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JIRA Development Cookbook — A book by Jobin Kuruvilla

Jobin Kuruvilla, an experienced JIRA consultant and plugin developer, set out on the ambitious task to write a detailed and thorough book about JIRA plugin development. The result? A well crafted 450+ page book that starts by introducing the reader to Atlassian’s plugin framework and ends with useful recipes usually gained only by weathered experience. It’s a great read for Atlassian plugin developers at all levels. Bits of Goodness The JIRA Development Cookbook is filled with bits of great

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