Archives for the tag: JIRA

Atlassian Enterprise JIRA Webinar, Vol 2

Last week, Atlassian Enterprise customers participated in our second installment of the Atlassian Enterprise JIRA Webinar. Bryan Rollins, our JIRA Group Product Manager, provided some great insight to the work we are doing to make our largest customer deployments successful, including our efforts around scaling and administering JIRA. Check out the full recording here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4yXNafM-kg Past webinars If you are interested in viewing past Atlassian Enterprise webinars,

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Collect Feedback in JIRA to Build Better Products: WHY

This is part one in a three-part series exploring WHY user feedback helps you make better products, HOW to best collect and digest that feedback, and WHAT greatness will come for your product, your team, and your organization when you solicit feedback from your users. The best way to make great products is to get a prototype in front of your users, solicit feedback, listen, then iterate. The ‘solicit feedback and listen’ part tends to get tricky, especially at a growing organization, so let's

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How to run a marketing launch with JIRA & Confluence

A marketing launch is a time-boxed project during which the project manager (launch owner) plans, organizes and coordinates activities with several teams, usually engineering, product management, and marketing. As the launch project manager, I'm responsible for tracking activities and tasks and communicating status to stakeholders across the organization. Scheduled items & unstructured content A marketing launch involves creating lots of content - things like video scripts, blog posts, and

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Codegeist is Back! Atlassian’s Developer Competition Returns

Codegeist: The Next Generation Codegeist, Atlassian's add-on development competition, is back on! The seventh iteration of the world's best development competion began February 1 and goes until May 31. What's at stake? $65,000 USD in prizes for members of the Atlassian ecosystem, both new and old. This time, we're giving out a prize for each month of the contest. That means the prize haul looks like this: Best Add-on of the Month ($10,000 x 4): One prize for the best add-on submitted during

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G'day JQL Ninjas in training! You are now on your way to creating more effective queries in JIRA to have a clearer view on your projects, teams, and work ahead. If you've not seen lesson 1, I'd suggest reviewing that post as we will build on a number of concepts talked about in that post. You should be comfortable with simple JQL queries as well as using the AND and OR keywords at this point. Functions: Why they are cool? In JIRA, fields store data related to an issue. Issue fields include: priority,

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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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