(Guest blog) Face-to-Face Across the Globe

  • By Dave Meyer, Product Marketing Specialist
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  • On May 22, 2012
This is a guest post by Sococo, a sponsor at Atlassian Summit 2012. One of the founding principles of Agile development (from www.agilemanifesto.org) is that “The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.” But we all know that development teams are increasingly distributed—often across the globe. At Sococo we use JIRA, GreenHopper and Confluence to structure and track work and capture content relevant

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(Guest Blog) A Case Study for Using JIRA and Tempo as a Help Desk

  • By Dave Meyer, Product Marketing Specialist
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  • On May 22, 2012
This is a guest blog post from Tempo by TM Software, a Sponsor at Atlassian Summit 2012. Have you ever considered using JIRA with Tempo’s plugin from TM Software as a help desk? We sat down with Þorsteinn Hallgrímsson, Service Manager at Nýherji’s headquarters in Reykjavík, Iceland, to talk about what Nýherji was looking for and why they chose JIRA with Tempo’s time tracking plugin when looking for a system that would support its technical services department. Tell us a little

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(Guest Blog) Scaling a test & change management process to meet growing demand

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On May 21, 2012
This is a guest blog post and case study by Go2Group, an Atlassian Platinum Expert and a sponsor of Atlassian Summit 2012. Background RWE Supply & Trading (RWE) is an energy trading company headquartered in Essen, Germany, boasting Europe’s largest and most sophisticated energy trading floor with subsidiaries and affiliates in Den Bosch, Geneva, Singapore and New York. RWE uses Quality Center from HP (HPQC) for both test and change management. With RWE’s high-volume change requests,

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GreenHopper Drinkup – San Francisco, May 24

Calling all GreenHopper Gurus in San Francisco! Shaun Clowes of the GreenHopper team in Sydney is visiting San Francisco for Atlassian Summit. He'd love to buy you a pint. Or three. Join Shaun, myself and other GreenHopper Gurus on Thursday May 24 from 6pm at Thirsty Bear. Find us in the Billar Room. Shaun and I are keen to learn how you are using GreenHopper. We are happy to chat all things Agile/Kanban/Scrum/DevOps and we will also have time to answer any GreenHopper questions you

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RIP FedEx Day, Meet [Your idea here] Day

  • By Joe Lambe, Demand Generation Manager
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  • On May 16, 2012
Since 2005, we've been holding quarterly internal "innovation" days - our unique blend of a hack day and Google's 20% time. Seven years later, we've done 19 of these events, featuring more than 500 projects from developers, IT ninjas, and even marketing folks. The name for the event was inspired by the one company that "ships" more than anyone - FedEx - and their commitment to ship something in 24 hours. We liked the idea of applying that "ship in a day" concept to these internal innovation hack-a-thons,

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Atlassian Summit 2012: It’s gonna be huge

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On May 15, 2012
Atlassian Summit is just two weeks away. Here's a taste of what you have to look forward to! If you haven't bought a ticket yet, now's your chance to seize the moment! Six awesome marquee speakers Jeff Atwood (codinghorror.com), Michael Lopp (randsinrepose.com), Pamela Fox (indie dev), Eric Ries (Startup Lessons Learned), Dave Thomas (Bedarra Research) and Jeff Ma (MIT Blackjack Team and entrepreneur) will be sharing their secrets to software development on high producing teams. In addition, the

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