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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Organize with Epics

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks.   Epics, which were introduced in GreenHopper 6.1, are a group of related user stories and usually capture a large body of work or a big project.  For example, the University team currently has an epic for all work related to an upcoming homepage redesign.  We had an epic for all work related to our better, faster,

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: T is for Toggle

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. In the past we've looked many times at JIRA keyboard shortcuts, including my four favorites. Today I'd like to share with you my favorite GreenHopper keyboard shortcut: T! Whenever you find yourself in need of more details for any issue on the Plan or Work board in GreenHopper, simply hit "t" to toggle the detail view

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Set your homepage to Agile

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks.   Save 2 clicks a day by setting your JIRA home to Agile How do you access GreenHopper?  Do you go to JIRA, click the Agile tab, then choose your Rapid Board?  Wouldn't it be better if you were taken directly to your Rapid Board?  It takes 2 seconds, here's how: Open up JIRA and click your icon in the top right

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JIRA tip of the month: Look at the JQL behind portions of a chart

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. JQL stands for JIRA Query Language. If you've been following the JIRA blog, you've seen our recent 4-part tutorial all about JQL for those with no experience writing database queries. JQL really is for everyone using JIRA: developers, testers, project managers, as well as business users. This month's tip is a way to

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How To Indicate you are Waiting

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Here are 3 ways to indicate you are waiting on other work to be done before you start working on your task. Say you need to update a page, but are waiting on your designer to give you the polished images, or you are waiting for your PM to get the wireframes approved before you start development, how do you indicate to the

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JIRA Tip of the Month: How to Receive Notifications in HipChat

  • By Sara Yin, content marketing specialist
  • JIRA
  • On January 15, 2013
The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Here at Atlassian, we live in HipChat, the fastest way to communicate with everyone on your team. The brutal truth is, many of us will respond to an instant message before a new email. When it comes to maximizing work productivity, it's no secret that we're not big fans of email. If you prefer JIRA notifications via

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