12 Favorites of JIRA in 2012

Today, December 21st 2012, marks the end of the Mayan calendar, and many speculate we'll have an Apocalypse before the day is over. If you're reading this, you're either just as skeptical as I am, or you love the iPad you got for Christmas so much that you want to spend your precious last hours reading blog posts online. It's the end of yet another awesome year in the land of JIRA. Let's take a look back at some of the highlights of 2012. Fun Projects JIRA-gami: If you're looking for stocking

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JIRA tip of the month: take a moment for yourself

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian's tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. If you spend a lot of time in JIRA, take a moment to check out all the personal settings available. It might save you a click or two every time you use JIRA, prevent you from missing important updates, or even keep unnecessary emails out of your inbox! I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about JIRA, but I

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Marketplace Monday: Documents for JIRA

Documents for JIRA by StonikByte lets you manage files in JIRA on a project level and store them on your JIRA server. With file storage options like company file servers, Microsoft SharePoint, cloud storage services, and the file graveyard known as the "email inbox," why store files in JIRA? Well, if you attach files to your JIRA issues, you already do. Frequently, a particular file might relate to multiple issues or an entire project–Documents for JIRA helps you share these files in the context

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This is a guest blog post from Eliza Wright of Lucidchart, a diagram viewer and editor for Confluence and JIRA. Lucidchart: Easy Diagramming for Confluence and JIRA Confluence and JIRA are built for collaboration from the ground up.  Great teamwork requires the ability to quickly and effectively get your point across--visual communication is a perfect counterpoint to text. Lucidchart seeks to deliver streamlined, intuitive visual communication with our diagramming tool, but we’re just one

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JIRA 5.2: in case you missed it

People love the re-imagined search experience in JIRA 5.2. The awesome power of JIRA lies in its flexibility, and harnessing that power can be a daunting task, so let's take a look at some of the other things our hard-working development team shipped in JIRA 5.2 to make it easier than ever for you to configure, tweak and customize JIRA to your hearts content! Re-order Gadget Columns A while ago we walked through 5 steps to build a killer dashboard, and along the way, we used the Filter Results

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For Ford it was the Model T, for Reebok it was Pumps, for Apple it was the iPod, and for Facebook it was the Like button. Now it's Team Calendars' turn to change the game. Team Calendars 3 gives you one vision of your team, events, and JIRA projects so you can plan for the future like never before. Introducing Timeline – A bird's-eye view of your team Calendars typically display events month by month or week by week. These views are sufficient for planning personal appointments and meetings,

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