Monthly Archives: July 2010

3 reasons to try the Universal Plugin Manager in JIRA

At Atlassian Summit 2010, we announced the Universal Plugin Manager. We said: The UPM allows you to see and manage the plugins that you have installed in your application, and it allows you to discover, download and install new plugins from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. If you're a JIRA admin and you haven't already downloaded the UPM, let me tell you why it's worth your time. 1. It's easy to install Simply download the plugin from our plugin repository and drop the .jar file into your JIRA home

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Summit 2010 Highlights – Release and Change Management with JIRA and Bamboo

At Atlassian Summit 2010, Jonathan Doklovic of Systems Bliss and Kevin Behrens of Internet Broadcasting gave a great session discussing release and change management techniques that have worked in real-world situations. The simple but effective release management system described uses: JIRA for issue tracking.Bamboo for continuous integration.Bamboo JIRAVersions plugin to retrieve versions from JIRA for use in a build.Bamboo Tagger plugin to create a new tag in the source control system after the

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Flexible agile planning with GreenHopper

The only constant is change The one thing that all agile development teams have in common is that they are all different. And not just different from one company to the next, but also from team to team within any given organisation. Obviously, this is largely due to the unique mixtures of skill sets and development experience within each team, and the varying objectives and requirements of the project they are working on. But if you look even deeper than that, most truly agile development teams

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GreenHopper 5.1 now available – even faster agile planning

I'm proud to announce the release of GreenHopper 5.1. Hot on the heels of the GreenHopper 5 release announced at Summit, the team is working hard to maintain their status as the most agile development team at Atlassian. This release includes several significant time saving improvements based directly on the customer feedback we received at Summit. Here is a quick summary of what's new in GreenHopper 5.1, plus a little video demo. Check out what's new in GreenHopper 5.1..

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JIRA 4.1 Deep Dive – the rest of the story

In this fourth (and final) deep dive into the new features of JIRA 4.1, I'd like to talk about some of the great "other" improvements that we added in this release. Despite not getting much of the limelight compared to the new issue tracking experience and usability improvements, there are loads of new things available providing added functionality and time savings for new users, power users and JIRA administrators.

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