Monthly Archives: July 2011

Hassle-free time tracking for JIRA with Worklog Assistant

This is a guest blog post by Sohail Somani of Worklog Assistant, a hassle-free time tracking solution for JIRA. In this post Sohail will explain what Worklog Assistant is, how it integrates with JIRA, and why you should give it a try. Time is the wisest counsellor of all. -Pericles Anonymized Twitter User   Yes, that's right. People hate timesheets. Or perhaps more accurately: they dislike the repetitious, manual work logging and data entry that comes along with timesheets.

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Love the Workflow – Atlassian Summit 2011, JIRA 4.4 Sneak Peek

Nothing helps you get things done quite like the right JIRA workflow. Emma Rush from Adaptavist gave a great talk at Summit about how she used the JIRA workflow to improve productivity, visibility, and reporting for her own projects. Mastering JIRA Workflows Emma learned the underlying concepts at my own talk at Summit 2010, then mocked up her process for creating a large number of short videos in a searchable library. She used JIRA to increase visibility, delegate tasks, and ultimately spend more

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JIRA Mobile Connect offers free hosted alpha @ iOSDevCamp 2011

This past weekend, I was at iOSDevCamp 2011 to talk about the new alpha of JIRA Mobile Connect for iOS and offer a free hosted JIRA project to anyone who wants to play around with it. It is very exciting to see the energy and excitement around the mobile development showing no signs of letting up. What's even cooler is increasing thirst for killer development tools to support the growing community. iOSDevCamp 2011 Over 400 mobile app developers descended upon the PayPal offices in

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Save Time Working with Issues – Atlassian Summit 2011

As I mentioned last week, JIRA's powerful search is getting even better with the coming release of JIRA 4.4 - but you don't have to wait to reduce the time you spend working with issues. A few weeks ago at Atlassian Summit 2011, two of our JIRA gurus gave tutorials for saving time while searching, editing and triaging issues in JIRA. Watch both talks in less than 20 minutes! Faster Searching John Sloat's talk will show you how to utilize the often-overlooked Quick Search box as a fast and direct

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JIRA 4.4 Sneak Peek – Search Change History Enhancements

Searching the change history of issues in JIRA gives specific, key information about issues, and helps developers make decisions and prioritize work. Do More with 'WAS' The ability to search issue change history was introduced in JIRA 4.3 with the Status field. In JIRA 4.4, now you can also search: Assignee field Reporter field Number of watchers (=, <, >) and dynamic dates! JIRA is already full of information about your team and work. Dynamic date searching makes JIRA's search

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Introducing Atlassian Bonfire 1.0 – Rapid agile testing for JIRA

Shortly after introducing the Bonfire beta program at Atlassian Summit 2011, I'm happy to announce the official release of Bonfire for JIRA. Bonfire is a tool for QA teams, testers, and developers - or anyone, really - to rapidly file comprehensive bug reports directly from the web application they are testing. Why testers love Bonfire We all know the pressure most agile development teams endure as their release date gets closer. It's not uncommon for the QA team to be desperately under-staffed,

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