Archives for the tag: JIRA

Using watchers and @mentions effectively

JIRA makes it easy to keep others in the loop and stay on top of issues you care about.  For notifications to be effective you can't overwhelm your audience.  JIRA has three notification methods known as notification schemes, watchers, and @mentions.  In this blog article we will focus on watchers and @mentions as they apply to all users.  Let's look at how we can use both to send just the right amount of notifications to ourselves as well as our team.  For reference, notification schemes are

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JIRA 6 webinar recording available

Yesterday we held a webinar for nearly 800 JIRA administrators, users, and evaluators. We covered how JIRA 6: Is redesigned & re-engineered for efficiency Makes teams faster with views for every work-style Stays with you wherever you are with JIRA's new mobile interface Makes it easy to get started by importing workflows from Atlassian Marketplace Watch the recording, share it with your team If you’re interested in JIRA, or are planning on upgrading to the latest version, this

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Become “triage fit” in 7 steps!

Making great software is an exciting and collaborative process.  Teams often have too many things to do and not enough time to get them all done.  Effective managers use their issue triage sessions as an asset by making them short but frequent, so everyone stays on the same page. Issue triage sessions often involve several if not all members the team, which makes them expensive meetings to run; plus, when run poorly, issue triage can be a drag. Issue triage sessions are an important staple in a

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Meet Ross, JIRA’s Lead Designer (2/2)

This is a second in a two part series about the JIRA 6 re-design with Ross Chaldecott.  In our first part we talked about Ross' design approach.  We will continue with Ross about the implementation of the Atlassian Design Guidelines inside of JIRA.  First, let's take a closer look at the beginnings of ADG with Ross in Sydney before jumping into how ADG shaped the release of JIRA 6.   JIRA 6: Implementing the ADG Q: What part of JIRA was the most difficult to update to use ADG? 

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Meet Ross, JIRA’s Lead Designer (1/2)

JIRA 6 is the biggest release to modernize JIRA ever. We've updated everything from typography, icons, layouts to make JIRA look and feel awesome. I got a few moments to catch up with Ross Chaldecott, the lead designer on the JIRA program to see how this transformation took place. In this two part series we will focus on the design approach and delivery during the JIRA 6 release. JIRA 6: The Design Approach Q: How does the product re-design process begin? A: Millions of people

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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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