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Introducing the Bamboo Release Management Plugin – Part 2
This is the second blog of a two part blog series submitted by Jonathan Doklovic. The first blog introduced the Bamboo Release Management plugin (Part 1) and the second will provide a brief tutorial on using the plugin. Jonathan is Founder and CEO of Systems Bliss Inc., an Atlassian Partner. Jonathan has been using Atlassian […]
(Case Study) ShopLocal API technical documentation with Confluence
Founded: 1999 Offices: HQ in Chicago, IL Industry: Multi-channel marketing services Employees: ~225 Tools used: Confluence, Jira I had the pleasure of speaking with Brendan Flynn, Senior Director of Product Development, at ShopLocal, a couple of weeks ago about how they have standardized on Confluence for developing and publishing their API documentation. ShopLocal, a leader […]
Plugin Profile: Time Tracking with Minyaa Suite
This is a guest blog post submitted by Vincent Thoulé. Vincent started his journey with Jira by implementing CMMi in IT services for a European Bank. After 4 years of committed work on Kaamelot, in 2009 he accepted to join Pyxis Technologies in Montreal in order to continue the Jira adventure on a full-time basis. […]
Wiki Management – Keep Your Team Informed
Have you ever wanted to notify a team member of a recent contribution to a space, page or blog post? Now you can, with ‘Manage Watchers’, a feature released in Confluence 3.3 that allows you to keep all your key stakeholders informed of important updates. Whether you are using Confluence for documentation, knowledge management or as an intranet, your teammates can stay up to date on the latest documents without getting bogged down by information or email overload. Staying in ‘the know’ without receiving thousands of emails is a critical part of collaboration and wiki functionality.
Traceable Builds with Atlassian Bamboo and Artifactory
This is a guest post by Noam Tenne of JFrog Ltd. This post takes a deep look into the Build Artifactory Plugin, a Bamboo plugin that introduces support for Maven 3 and Ivy/Ant builders while providing improved CI and Build Integration capabilities to Bamboo users. Where are your build artifacts? It’s Monday morning; Do you […]
Improving Jira User Experience – Delivering with agility – Part II
For the last couple of months, the Jira team has been hard at work on our 4.2 release. A large part of Jira 4.2 is building on the user experience journey that we began in Jira 4.0 last year. True to our agile approach to incrementally enhance the Jira user experience, we have approached Jira […]
Introducing The Bamboo Release Management Plugin – Part 1
This is a guest blog post submitted by Jonathan Doklovic. Jonathan is Founder and CEO of Systems Bliss Inc., an Atlassian Partner. Jonathan has been using Atlassian tools and writing plugins for them for over 5 years and has over 25 years of development experience. His goal is to blissfully skip through a field filled […]
Take part in the State of Agile Development survey
It’s that time of year again.. the 5th annual State of Agile Development survey is currently being conducted. I encourage you to participate and share your impressions of the current state of agile development. Last year, Jira showed very well in this survey as the most popular development-specific tool used by agile development teams (coming […]
Wiki Adoption: Why there's no Reason to be Scared of Sharing Knowledge
Often in the opening phase of deploying an enterprise wiki it is difficult to encourage employees to participate. This is because employees haven’t been properly brought up to speed and thus they misunderstand the concept of and benefits of using a wiki. One symptom of this is the fear of sharing knowledge.
Summit 2010 Highlights – Building Plugins with Groovy
Groovy is a dynamic programing language based on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with features for improved productivity. For Java developers, it’s a great way to get the benefits of dynamic languages such as Python and perl without having to learn a lot of new syntax and object models. At Atlassian Summit 2010, Paul King, […]
Code review with the Atlassian Bamboo developers (Part 2)
In a previous post (Part 1) we introduced how the Atlassian Bamboo developers were using Crucible for their code review process. We showed a snapshot of why the Bamboo developers do code review and how they get the process started. In this post you will learn about how the Bamboo developers perform code reviews and […]
Video: Clustering Jira
We produced a webinar on Scarlet by Sourcesense, an open source systems integrator. Scarlet is a special edition of Jira created to meet the demanding needs of customers Sourcesense has met as an Atlassian partner, sometimes in need to handle millions of issues, often requiring failover, all of them wanting top performance at low costs. […]
Using Jira Studio for distributed development? Tell us about it!
Recently we did some analysis of Jira Studio’s usage metrics, and came across an interesting fact. According to our measurements, 60% of Jira Studio instances are accessed by users in more than one country. We suspect this metric indicates that a lot of Jira Studio customers have team members located offshore (either […]
Video: Designing Complex Jira Workflows
Yesterday we hosted a webinar which focused on complex Jira workflows. Solid process design is an important part of any software development project. Communicating your processes builds client confidence and provides clarity around scope and issue timeframes. This webinar covered process design and implementation using Jira’s powerful Workflow editor. Jason Imms, Insight4‘s Quality Assurance Team […]
AtlasCamp 2010: Coming Soon To A Picturesque Bay Near Us
Dust off your pup tents — the 3rd annual Atlassian developers’ conference, AtlasCamp 2010, is barely a month away!