Monthly Archives: March 2012

JIRA Deep Dive – Mine for Gold

You can use JIRA to see what's happened in the past, view today's work in a whole new light, and to frame important decisions as you plan for the future. Take advantage of searching the change history of issues in your JIRA instance to discover all kinds of new insight into the flow of work in your organization. The longer you've been using JIRA, the more gold is in there for you to discover! Let's take a look at some examples. Search for Training Needs A key indication that the Reporter and

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Bonfire 2 Deep Dive – Ensure Consistent Bug Reports from Remote or Outsourced Testers

Atlassian Bonfire 2 makes it easy to test together, whether you sit across the room or across the globe from the rest of your team. You may work with consultants, teams at partner companies, or outsource development or testing. Quality issue creation from people outside your team is important to keep software development projects on track and keep velocity high. Consistent Communication The best way to keep velocity high and projects moving forward is to minimize the back-and-forth discussion clarifying

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JIRA 5 Deep Dive – Issue Linking

Want to link a JIRA issue with a requirements document in Confluence, or with a support ticket in Desk.com, or even with a Google search result you found? With Issue Links in JIRA 5 you can quickly and easily append important information to your JIRA issues to give you more context, facilitate collaboration, and help you build better software. Whether you are adding a test cases from Zephyr, a discussion topic from Get Satisfaction, or a customer record from Salesforce, Issue Links puts all of

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Team Calendars 2 – How to Avoid the ‘Oh $%*#’ Moment

A lot of work we do revolves around people, projects and content that can't be tracked using a Personal Calendar. With so many different schedules and projects happening at once, getting everyone on the same page is nearly impossible, increasing the likelihood of an 'Oh $%*#' moment - the moment when you realize you're going to miss a deadline, a feature has to be pulled from an upcoming release, or quality must be sacrificed. These moments are standard for any group of people attempting

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New GreenHopper! 5.9.1 with more Rapid Board for Scrum features

It wasn't long ago that we released GreenHopper 5.9 and introduced the Rapid Board for Scrum into GreenHopper Labs, our proving ground for new functionality. Today we're giving early adopters of the Rapid Board for Scrum even more to play with, specifically:   Add stories to an in-progress sprint Drag and drop the issue in Plan mode onto the active sprint and it will show up in your current sprint.     See issue Attachments in the Detail View Following on from

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(Guest Blog) Why Write a JIRA Book?

This is a guest post by Matt Doar of CustomWare. He has written two books about JIRA. One of which, Practical JIRA Administration, is up to date with all of the latest JIRA 5 goodness. As we all know, JIRA is extremely flexible. You have the option of customizing pretty much everything. However, learning how to take advantage of JIRA's adaptability can be tough for new users. All of the Atlassian tools including JIRA have excellent documentation online, but much of it is very specific to the purpose

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