Monthly Archives: September 2010

Product updates: GreenHopper & JIRA Wallboards Plugin

I'm happy to announce that GreenHopper 5.2.3 and the JIRA Wallboards Plugin 1.3.1 are now available. While both of these are minor product releases, we've managed to pack some excellent usability enhancements into each one. The JIRA Wallboards plugin, which turns JIRA into an information radiator by presenting GreenHopper and compatible OpenSocial gadgets on a big screen, has been a pleasant distraction for the GreenHopper team to work on. We will continue to improve this plugin as we use it day-to-day

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JIRA Workflow Designer: The Visual Way to Edit JIRA Workflows

UPDATED: The JIRA Workflow Designer is now free for all active JIRA customers. This guest blog post was originally written by Jonathan Doklovic. Prior to joining Atlassian, Jonathan was the Founder and CEO of Systems Bliss Inc., which was acquired by Atlassian in February 2011. Jonathan has been using Atlassian tools and writing plugins for them for over 5 years and has over 25 years of development experience. His goal is to blissfully skip through a field filled with fluffy bunnies while

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Plugin Profile: Time Tracking with Minyaa Suite

  • By John Sloat, Online Marketing Coordinator
  • JIRA
  • On September 22, 2010
This is a guest blog post submitted by Vincent Thoulé. Vincent started his journey with JIRA by implementing CMMi in IT services for a European Bank. After 4 years of committed work on Kaamelot, in 2009 he accepted to join Pyxis Technologies in Montreal in order to continue the JIRA adventure on a full-time basis. This is a 3-part blog series. The first will focus on using Minyaa for time tracking; the second and third will go in-depth on Minyaa's other modules. Looking Back Minyaa Suite turned

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Improving JIRA User Experience – Delivering with agility – Part II

For the last couple of months, the JIRA team has been hard at work on our 4.2 release. A large part of JIRA 4.2 is building on the user experience journey that we began in JIRA 4.0 last year. True to our agile approach to incrementally enhance the JIRA user experience, we have approached JIRA 4.2 user experience improvements with a large focus on the feedback that we receive from our customers. The JIRA 4.2 cycle has been a great learning process for us, and we've been improved our processes in

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Take part in the State of Agile Development survey

It's that time of year again.. the 5th annual State of Agile Development survey is currently being conducted. I encourage you to participate and share your impressions of the current state of agile development. Last year, JIRA showed very well in this survey as the most popular development-specific tool used by agile development teams (coming in at 24%, only behind MS Project and Excel). Maybe this year we will jump up even further in the standings. With over a quarter of all JIRA customers

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GreenHopper now available in Spanish

Today Atlassian is proud to announce the inclusion of a Spanish language pack with GreenHopper 5.2. The global growth of GreenHopper, which now has over 12,000 customers, resulted in huge demand from Spanish speakers for a localised release. Aprende más sobre GreenHopper 5.2 en español. Some of the great features of recent GreenHopper releases include: Project Templates - The built-in Scrum project template configures everything necessary for Scrum teams to instantly start capturing user stories,

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