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Video: Connecting Jira to MS Project
Ceptah Bridge links MS Project with Jira and provides bi-directional synchronisation between the systems. It streamlines the project management process by making Microsoft Project tasks available to Jira users for browsing, modifying and reporting progress. A rich interface gives the user full control over the changes made during the synchronisation. Sergey Gussak from Ceptah Solutions […]
Summit 2010 Highlights – Code Review for Busy Teams
Developers universally recognize the benefits of code review including Fewer defects Knowledge sharing Mentoring of new team members Despite the clear benefits, most teams don’t do code reviews because they are too time-consuming. In this talk from Atlassian Summit 2010, Brendan Humphreys discusses how teams can incorporate code review into their daily development practices to […]
Selenium – push my buttons
Or Selenium – everything is obvious in retrospect. I spent some of my 20% time trying to figure out why simulating typing or pushing keys in selenium is such a pain for us and has been for so long. Here is what I have found out: Finding 1: Javascript events are first class citizens in […]
Summit 2010 Highlights – Kaizen with GreenHopper
Kaizen with GreenHopper: Visualising Agile & Kanban Storywalls One of the popular sessions in the Dev Speed track at Atlassian Summit 2010 was on Kaizen with GreenHopper. The presentation was delivered by Craig Smith who is an Agile Coach at Suncorp and works with over 160 active projects to ensure development is constantly moving forward. […]
GreenHopper 5.2 available today – Kanban Kandy
I’m happy to announce that GreenHopper 5.2 is available today. This release includes several great features for you to use Kanban to optimise your development process. What’s new in GreenHopper 5.2? Cumulative Flow Diagrams – The chart board and release boards now include Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFD). This chart plots the number of issues in […]
The Scrum Framework with GreenHopper
People often ask me, “how exactly do you guys do scrum?” This is a very tough question to answer because every development team within Atlassian has a slightly different answer depending on their size, skill sets, experience, requirements, etc.. As each team evolves, so do their processes, techniques and tools. Despite their uniqueness, many agile […]
111 reasons why you need an enterprise wiki
At //SEIBERT/MEDIA, we’ve been doing our work on a wiki for years. Through our day-to-day work as well as through dozens of enterprise wiki projects, we’ve experienced – thanks to innumerable different example cases – how useful and valuable a wiki can be on a number of levels. Therefore, we believe it is high time to compress the arguments for a wiki into the limited space offered by tweets to make our points as efficiently as possible.
Bamboo continuous integration and Asterisk open source project
Russell Bryant has written a great blog post on how Asterisk, an open source telephony project, is using Atlassian Bamboo for continuous integration and automated testing. In the post you will find links to live examples of how Asterisk is using Bamboo Bamboo setup with automated testing code coverage analysis To read the full blog […]
3 reasons to try the Universal Plugin Manager in Jira
At Atlassian Summit 2010, we announced the Universal Plugin Manager. We said: The UPM allows you to see and manage the plugins that you have installed in your application, and it allows you to discover, download and install new plugins from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. If you’re a Jira admin and you haven’t already downloaded […]
Create custom approval process workflows in your enterprise wiki
This is a guest post by Roberto Dominguez from Comalatech, creators of the Ad-hoc Workflows Plugin for Confluence. Announced at Atlassian Summit 2010, the new Ad-hoc Workflows Exchange will get you up and running with custom workflows for your enterprise wiki content in just a few seconds. It’s a place where you can browse through a number of pre-configured workflows and discuss best practices.
3 ways Atlassian delivers Legendary Support
Delivering legendary service is something Atlassian Support team is constantly striving for. At Atlassian Summit 2010, Andrew Rallings, the Support Director, shared the three ways we try to achieve this goal and some of the innovative tools we have created to better serve our customers.
Jira Studio + Google Apps – Activity Bar
When you integrate Jira Studio with your Google Apps domain, you unlock several features that are only available in this flavour of Atlassian’s hosted software development suite. A previous post highlighted single sign-on using your Google Apps domain account. This post will focus on the Activity Bar in Jira Studio. All Your Activity In One […]
Summit 2010 Highlights – Auditing your Build and Release Infrastructure
Atlassian’s build and release infrastructure uses dozens of build agents to run hundreds of builds every day. Needless to say, it’s a critical part of how we deliver great software to our customers! Jim Severino is a member of the internal systems team at Atlassian who is responsible for our build infrastructure. At Summit 2010, […]
Software Support Best Practices: How Atlassian Support Visualizes Our Support Queue – Part 1
At the recent Atlassian Summit 2010, we demonstrated the homegrown tool that Atlassian’s global Technical Support team uses to manage our shared support queue. In part 1 of this blog series, we’ll cover why we needed a new tool, and the concepts behind the shared view we built. In part 2, we’ll break down how we turned our best practices and ideas into a working tool that we plan to eventually release as a Jira plugin.
Webinar: Ceptah Bridge Links Jira to MS Project
Please join us in 2 weeks to learn more about Ceptah Bridge. Ceptah Bridge links MS Project with Jira and provides bi-directional synchronisation between the systems. It streamlines the project management process by making Microsoft Project tasks available to Jira users for browsing, modifying and reporting progress. A rich interface gives the user full control […]