Archives for the tag: GreenHopper

GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How To Indicate you are Waiting

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Here are 3 ways to indicate you are waiting on other work to be done before you start working on your task. Say you need to update a page, but are waiting on your designer to give you the polished images, or you are waiting for your PM to get the wireframes approved before you start development, how do you indicate to the

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Screencast: Agile Best Practices from Code School

Code School is a community of web professionals who use video, in-browser coding, and themed challenges to let you play courses, win badges, and learn by doing. Their 10-15 minute videos are designed to get you up to speed on a concept or practice, teaching web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons and coding challenges. Free Screencast: Agile Best Practices Agile software development methodologies like Scrum are easy to learn, but hard to master. It's easy to get some

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Improving Agile Estimation via Triangulation

Yves Riel has been exploring Scrum by participating as a team member, a Scrum Master and a Product Owner. He also acts as a Scrum Coach to help teams learn the Scrum methodology. Yves has actively been using JIRA and GreenHopper since 2009. Benjamin Franklin once said that there were two certainties in this world: death and taxes. I suspect that if Benjamin Franklin had been in the software industry, he would have added “estimation” to the lot. Although there are some heated debates on the

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How Atlassian uses GreenHopper

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. To build great products, we use the same exact products we offer to you.  Lets take a sneak peak at how the Interactive Marketing team uses GreenHopper to plan sprints and get stuff done.  The 8 of us in the Interactive team at Atlassian manage the Atlassian website, Atlassian University, videos and various design

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Keyboard Shortcuts

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Zip around GreenHopper even faster with Keyboard Shortcuts If you live within GreenHopper, use these keyboard shortcuts to save you a few seconds with every action.  Over time, the seconds you save will add up. Here are the GreenHopper specific shortcuts: Use 'j' to go to the next issue (down) in a column Use

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How Atlassian uses Quick Filters

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. How the Interactive team at Atlassian uses Quick Filters The Interactive team at Atlassian manages the Atlassian website, Atlassian University, videos and various design tasks. Let's take a quick look at how our team uses Quick Filters to further filter cards in the work and plan mode of the GreenHopper boards. By default,

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