JIRA 6 beta available today!

We're excited to announce the beta release of JIRA 6, now available for download! If you develop a JIRA plugin or simply can't wait to get your hands on the new design, read on. Check out the New Design The JIRA look and feel is being redesigned in JIRA 6.0 according to the new Atlassian Design Guidelines. If you are a developer, these changes will affect you; start making changes to your plugins now. The following documents are designed to help you with this transition: Preparing for JIRA

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Keep your Product Owner happy with GreenHopper 6.2

We're very excited today to announce the availability of GreenHopper 6.2! We've satisfied a whopping 850 votes with this release, and no matter how long you've been using JIRA & GreenHopper, you'll find some exciting stuff in all the reporting goodness of GreenHopper 6.2: New Epic Report - track progress toward larger feature work spanning multiple sprints New Version Report - projected completion dates calculated per-day based on historical velocity, giving you confidence as you get close

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The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Hey JIRA Mavens! It's time for another tip from Atlassian University. Almost everyone on the project team has the question, "How are things going?" Looking sprint to sprint it's easy to see progress at the sprint level but what if you want to take a step up and see the larger picture? Measuring Progress Every project

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Guest Blog: Monitoring Your Teams Estimation Skills

Yves Riel acts as a Scrum Coach to help teams learn the Scrum methodology. Yves has actively been using JIRA and GreenHopper since 2009. He built Rekall for JIRA to help agile teams improve their estimates. Every year, I try to make an appointment with my doctor for an annual check-up. Invariably, I walk out of his office with a blood tests form in my hand. These tests are what helps my doctor notice illnesses like high cholesterol or diabetes. About two years ago, I began to suspect my agile team

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Webinar: Agile Concepts with JIRA & GreenHopper

This is a recording of the Atlassian Enterprise Workshop webinar on Agile Concepts using JIRA and GreenHopper. The session was presented in March 2013 by Roger Symonds from Customware, an Atlassian Enterprise Expert. This webinar is an introduction to Scrum and Kanban and how iteration and flow based workflows can be implemented in Atlassian GreenHopper. Covering the new GreenHopper Boards, Epics and Sprints along with the three new modes Planning, Working and Reporting, you will leave the session

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JIRA Admins: Where is your field?

Do you know about the JIRA Admin Helper? If you're a JIRA administrator, hold on to your hat: we're about to move your configuration tasks at warp speed! The JIRA Admin Helper is a free, bundled plugin that answers questions like: Why isn't my field showing up on view/edit/create screens? Why can/can't a user see a certain issue? Why did/didn't a user get a certain email notification? Three Helpers are built-in, ready to answer all your troubleshooting questions. Field Helper If you're

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