JIRA 6 + Bamboo 5 = release management goes up to 11

Delivering software projects is tricky business at the best of times, particularly when it comes to deploying changes. When planning to release, Ops teams need to know what changes are coming so they can mitigate the risk of the deployment and understand what they'll be responsible for supporting in production. JIRA provides a convenient lens for anticipating changes to an application. But correlating a new version of the application (i.e., a new build) with the FixVersion on its associated JIRA

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JIRA 6: Auto look and feel

JIRA 6 is the biggest release of JIRA in three years. One of the big changes is the introduction of the Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG). The biggest benefit of this improvement is a consistent look and feel across JIRA as well as other Atlassian applications that support ADG, including Confluence and Stash. All three applications use similar design and workflow patterns that users can follow within and between applications. In addition, JIRA has a new look and feel configurator that makes it

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Four fast ways to link to content in Confluence

At Atlassian we live in Confluence. Our intranet houses all the content that keeps the company running. This collection of rich pages and blog posts often includes useful links to other relevant Confluence pages, or content from around the web. Linking to other content from the Confluence editor is simple, just type: Trigger autocomplete for links by pressing: Then choose from a list of your recently viewed pages, or start typing to search for other content to link to: Here are four ways you

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JIRA 6 available today!

Meet the new JIRA Modern. Fast. Mobile. Simple. JIRA 6 is a completely new JIRA. The redesigned look and feel brings a whole new user experience to JIRA. It is modern and simple, clearing away the clutter so that you can get your work done faster. It's also mobile so you can work with your project on the go. Check it out: Play  Enjoy the preview? Register for the What's New in JIRA 6 webinar today. Sign up for the JIRA 6 webinar JIRA 6 represents the biggest release of JIRA in over three

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Why tools matter: Optimize your team with JIRA 6

Each of us has a series of tasks that we do on a recurring basis at work. Engineers typically work with a few key tools such as compilers, source code repositories, issues trackers, build servers, and office tools like email to deliver code back to the company. At Atlassian, we think of product development tasks as falling into three groups: As individuals, we can get a great return on investment from optimizing within that inner loop. These are the tasks you and your team perform every

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Make Growth Easy: Why People Choose JIRA 6

JIRA is used by nearly 20,000 teams, spanning 115 countries around the globe. Why do so many companies choose JIRA? Because it lets their teams plan more efficiently, communicate more effectively, and get work done faster. To understand how JIRA makes collaboration easy, let's start with why collaboration gets difficult. Growth makes things complicated! Growth is a good thing; it enables ideas to foster and come to market. Growth also makes things tough because culture and processes don't always

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