Tame an unruly backlog with GreenHopper 6.1 – Available Today

Enterprise Admins - Be sure to check out the Scaling GreenHopper guide. Product owners are occasionally struck with awe at just how large their product backlog has grown. The GreenHopper team has been exploring this problem and we’re happy to announce a solution – Epics, your key to taming a growing backlog. Try GreenHopper 6.1 Today 'When will we ship?' Product owners are often asked how much more work is needed until a feature is ready to ship. A big feature can be represented

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Plugin beta: start translating JIRA on the fly

The new JIRA InProduct Translation plugin, which lets you translate JIRA items on the fly, is now available in beta! Simply select "Translate Page" from your profile menu and start translating. Translated items are immediately visible to all JIRA users with that particular language selected. We built this plugin with two audiences in mind: If any of your JIRA users primarily speak a language other than English If JIRA's English interface is 98% right, but you'd like to change the name of just

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Marketplace Monday: JIRA Enhancer

Tuncay Senturk, the developer behind this week's Marketplace Monday add-on, has been working on his JIRA Enhancer Plugin for over six years. JIRA Enhancer extends JIRA's capabilities with a powerful set of custom fields. The 21 custom fields capture a ton of data that can better inform your dev team'ss project tracking. Most of the fields cover are related to issue state changes–it can also log the information about issue state changes into reports, which can provide the full history of an issue. Custom

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Free JIRA training until 2013!

  • By Jesse Katz, Program Manager, Atlassian University
  • JIRA
  • On November 29, 2012
Until the end of the year, we’re giving everyone the chance to take the 28 JIRA lessons for free. Included are the brand new JIRA 5.2 lessons, so you can get your hands on JIRA's brand new search and filtering functionality. Atlassian University videos and step-by-step interactive tutorials will get your team up to speed on JIRA, fast. You'll learn all the tips and tricks you need to be a JIRA wiz. Jump over to University to give it a spin. To access the free lessons, please sign

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JIRA 5.2 deep dive: prepare for the day ahead

Quick - what did you work on yesterday, and what's at the top of your list for today? If you can't form an intelligent answer until you've finished your first cup of coffee, JIRA's new system filters are here to save your day. Use these new filters to manage your morning: My Open Issues - unresolved issues assigned to you Recently Viewed - your issue view history Reported by Me - issues you've reported The Stand-Up Smile and relax on your morning commute knowing you're ready to

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Marketplace Monday: eazyBI Reporting and Charts Plugin for JIRA

Here at Atlassian, we're particularly stoked about this week's Marketplace Monday add-on. Why? It offers one of the most intuitive and powerful user experiences for reporting and charting JIRA data that we've seen. EazyBI began as a web-based business intelligence tool for users tired of paying high prices for hard-to-use enterprise BI software. Enter eazyBI. It integrated data from disparate data sources, offered flexible reports, and allowed you to add data with a drag-and-drop user interface. While

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