Monthly Archives: January 2010

JIRA Integration with Pivotal Tracker

Updated: Check out Top 5 Reasons Pivotal Users GO JIRA! The latest release of Pivotal Tracker includes support for a number of issue trackers, including our very own JIRA. Setting integration up is easy enough (instructions here), just make sure to allow remote API calls in your JIRA general configuration settings. It's a one way integration, meaning you can manipulate issues from JIRA in Pivotal, but not the other way around. How JIRA Works With Pivotal As soon as you move a JIRA issue

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Upcoming webinar – JIRA Bug Tracking with Zendesk

Next week, I'll be a guest on a webinar hosted by Zendesk, talking about the advantages of integrating JIRA with your Zendesk. In the session, we will cover the following: How JIRA is useful for bug tracking and project management What data gets passed between applications What a development project without bug tracking tools looks likeHow sharing information between departments can increase productivity If you are interested in joining the webinar, you can register here REGISTER NOW: Thurs, Jan

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NPR.org moves from Bugzilla to JIRA

A few months ago, Kim Bryant, NPR's Manager of Application Operations for Digital Media, posted on Inside NPR.org about their move from Bugzilla to JIRA in order to address challenges with "managing work requests, bug tracking and other operational processes." In the second part of her blog series, Kim goes into the details about some of the frustrations of using Bugzilla for 4 1/2 years. She also drills into NPR's top 5 reasons for switching to JIRA.

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JIRA 4 Performance – Part 2

Originally, we had intended to write a two-part blog series on the performance improvements in JIRA 4. You may have already seen the first part, where George Barnett covered JIRA 4 performance compared to JIRA 3.13. In the second part, Mark Lassau was going to talk about the benefits of automated performance tests and the improvements to the JIRA codebase made possible by the regular performance telemetry data. Check out how we combined Bamboo, Confluence, jira.atlassian.com and JMeter to aggressively improve our caching.

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