Archives for the tag: JIRA

Bring Code Quality to JIRA with FishEye and Crucible

"I remember when our team was just two developers...". Have you made a statement like that recently? At Atlassian our development team grew from 2 guys to now over 300 developers working in different timezones. Collaborating on the code became more complex as the team was growing but the goal always stayed the same: improve dev speed and ship high quality code. To achieve this we needed to find the right processes, tools and workflows. In our case we just built some of it ourselves. FishEye and

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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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Managers, meet your new favorite gadget

One of my favorite JIRA gadgets is also one of the most overlooked. The name's a mouthful, but the Two-Dimensional Filter Statistics gadget is a must-have for any great JIRA dashboard. This gadget lets you view a summary of issue counts broken down across two axes, which you pick from any field you use in JIRA. Read on as we walk through a few examples - your eyes will be opened to the awesome power this gadget provides! Watch Work In-Flight Most days, I have several issues that I'm waiting

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Admin Love, User Power: Atlassian Releases Universal Plugin Manager 2.8

  • By Dave Meyer, Product Marketing, Atlassian Marketplace
  • News
  • On January 22, 2013
As a company, few things make we Atlassians prouder than our amazing ecosystem of developers building add-ons for our products. So, tucked away in a corner of our San Francisco office, the Atlassian Ecosystem dev team quietly works to ensure that the integration between third-party add-ons and our core products is absolutely seamless. And they're proud to announce a massive update to the Universal Plugin Manager. In fact, it's the biggest release of the UPM since we launched the Atlassian Marketplace in

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Marketplace Monday: Connect Databases with nFeed for JIRA

Getting all your data repositories in sync is a painful process. You might find yourself manually copying data from other sources on to JIRA issues. If filling up field after field with the same information has become a nightmare, nFeed for JIRA by Valiantys is a fantastic solution to display information directly from your database! nFeed, developed by the French team Valiantys, is much more than a simple database connector for JIRA; cascading selections, web service integration, and more dramatically

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Marketplace Monday: CUTE Theming for JIRA and Confluence

What would you get if you crossed the movie Inception with the Atlassian Marketplace? Leonardo DiCaprio going inside devs' dreams to close out thorny JIRA issues? CUTE for Confluence and JIRA by Communardo Software isn't quite that awesome, but it's pretty close. It offers plugins inside of plugins for JIRA and Confluence, making theming and UI customization for your wiki or issue tracker easy and modular. CUTE helps JIRA and Confluence users make modifications to their instance without the

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