Archives for the tag: Agile

It Takes a Village to Launch a Product

In the early days of a software startup, engineers do all the work to bring a product to market. But as a company grows, so too do the number of people who share in the product launch activities. Where Atlassian provides products and tools to help teams collaborate and manage tasks, Atlassian Summit provides the direction. And this year's Summit will be different insofar as we're seeking not only highly-knowledgeable customers to present their case studies, but also other experts who can

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GreenHopper 5.9 available today

We've been listening to your feedback on the Rapid Board for Scrum features over the past few weeks - it has been constructive feedback, so please keep it coming. We have also received some very encouraging feedback: Love the new Rapid Board and the ability to use JQL to define the swim lanes. It is an awesome asset to our process. - Brad Jones, Flurry The new Rapid View is a splendid tool for daily work as well as long term planning. - Mikael Rask, Com Hem The development of GreenHopper is

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Scrum for GreenHopper Rapid Board in Labs

Since the release of the Rapid Board in GreenHopper 5.8 we have made a number of improvements to the Rapid Board for Kanban teams - a JIRA Wallboard gadget, performance improvements, the ability to copy views, the Getting Started screen and an interactive cumulative flow diagram. Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Scrum for the Rapid Board as a Labs feature. Scrum for Rapid Board Our initial release of Scrum for Rapid Board allows your team to: Prepare the backlog for the

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The Kaizen Project – Continuous improvement for your Agile team

is a new source of information to assist Agile teams in continually improving their practices and processes. Kaizen is the Japanese word for 'improvement' and The Kaizen Project shares best practice stories from around the globe. Topics from innovation to continuous deployment are covered, along with everything in between. Teams at Atlassian are always looking for, and finding, new ways increase velocity, improve quality and deliver more frequently. Find stories from these Agile teams on The

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Continuous Deployment for Mobile Apps

This is a a blog post from Thomas Dohmke, CEO at Codenauts UG, creators of HockeyApp. HockeyApp allows you to distribute your betas and collect live crash reports for beta and release apps on Mac OS X, iOS and Android. Before founding Codenauts UG, Thomas worked in the automotive industry and learned the importance of efficient processes. Now he is bringing the same quality to the development of mobile apps. Don't Repeat Yourself One of the most important principles in software development is "Don't

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Usability Testing with Paper Prototyping

This is a guest blog by Richard Duinmayer and Gert-Jan Bartelds of Avisi, an Atlassian Expert based in the Netherlands. Richard and Gert-Jan are members of Testnet, the Dutch software testers’ professional association. On November 8th 2011 they took part in a Testnet workshop on usability testing. More specifically, the topic was “the use of paper prototyping in usability testing”, below is their experience report. What is Paper Prototyping? Paper prototyping an application is: Building

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