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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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Get fancy with card colours in GreenHopper

A neat feature in GreenHopper is the ability to colour cards based upon JQL. Over the past two days I've visited two great customers and each of them came up with a novel way to use the card colours in their environment. I wanted to share them ASAP so you can start using them Monday morning. It's Friday 651pm in San Francisco and I'm about go watch the Sydney Swans win the AFL Grand Final at the pub - this is so cool it couldn't wait until Monday. Anyways... Twitter The cool folks at Twitter

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(Case Study) mgm technology partners uses JIRA to connect development projects directly to customers

About mgm technology partners mgm is a medium sized software solution company that defines its success by its contribution to the success of its clients’ businesses. Founded in 1994, mgm is based in Munich, with about 300 employees throughout Europe. Alexander Weiss has been with the company since its migration from Bugzilla to JIRA in 2005 - he championed the adoption internally after using JIRA at a customer site. mgm technology partners uses JIRA, GreenHopper, Confluence and recently brought

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