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GreenHopper 5.9.3 is now available. In this release we have focused our attention on backlog grooming and starting a sprint retrospective. These features are available as part of GreenHopper Labs and we are actively seeking your feedback. Sprint Retrospective An important part of every sprint is the retrospective. A great way to start a retrospective is to look at what the team accomplished in the just completed sprint and continue the discussion from there.   Backlog Grooming Product

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It wasn't long ago that we released GreenHopper 5.9 and introduced the Rapid Board for Scrum into GreenHopper Labs, our proving ground for new functionality. Today we're giving early adopters of the Rapid Board for Scrum even more to play with, specifically:   Add stories to an in-progress sprint Drag and drop the issue in Plan mode onto the active sprint and it will show up in your current sprint.     See issue Attachments in the Detail View Following on from

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GreenHopper 5.9 available today

We've been listening to your feedback on the Rapid Board for Scrum features over the past few weeks - it has been constructive feedback, so please keep it coming. We have also received some very encouraging feedback: Love the new Rapid Board and the ability to use JQL to define the swim lanes. It is an awesome asset to our process. - Brad Jones, Flurry The new Rapid View is a splendid tool for daily work as well as long term planning. - Mikael Rask, Com Hem The development of GreenHopper is

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The Atlassian Bar comes to Sweden at Jfokus

The conference season is starting again in Europe, and we're kicking it off in Stockholm, Sweden at Jfokus. Jfokus is the biggest Java conference in Sweden and runs for three days from 13-15 February. There will be a bunch of updates about software development trends; some highlights include: Kevlin Henney - Cool Code Kevlin will show how to fit the code of a chess program into just 4.8 SMS and how to write a web server in just one line of code. The point is, that programmers should

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Since the release of the Rapid Board in GreenHopper 5.8 we have made a number of improvements to the Rapid Board for Kanban teams - a JIRA Wallboard gadget, performance improvements, the ability to copy views, the Getting Started screen and an interactive cumulative flow diagram. Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Scrum for the Rapid Board as a Labs feature. Scrum for Rapid Board Our initial release of Scrum for Rapid Board allows your team to: Prepare the backlog for the

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Software development teams are increasingly making the switch to Agile. A successful transformation is crucial for engineering leads and more important than ever as the business demands more value from engineering teams. Jeffrey Palmer, VP of Engineering at Nextag, is one leader who is currently undertaking an Agile transformation with his team. Over the past ten years Palmer has led transformations for a number of Agile teams. For the current switch Palmer is overseeing Scrum and Kanban teams.  Nextag is

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