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Portfolio for Jira meets kanban
No matter what agile framework your team uses, Portfolio for Jira can forecast a realistic roadmap for your product or project. In our blogs about Portfolio for Jira, we’ve focused heavily on Scrum methodology, but lately we’ve been getting more questions about how kanban can be planned in Portfolio for Jira. So lets see how […]
Become an Atlassian Certified Professional Jira Admin
Becoming an Atlassian Certified Professional not only means you will join the most elite group of Atlassian VIPs in the world, but it also means you’ll continue to be a top-notch Jira Admin throughout your entire career.
5 ways to become a planning master with Portfolio for Jira
[cta] Even when your teams are agile, there’s still a need to plan ahead. However, it can be hard to balance the day-to-day of completing your team’s sprint with the added pressure of having to plan for what’s next. Knowing that Jira is the place where teams manage their everyday work, we’ve built Portfolio for Jira […]
Ideas to optimize your planning poker sessions
This is a guest post by Vitalii Zurian, a software engineer and the creator of a series of agile add-ons for Jira Cloud, including the #1 paid add-on, Planning Poker. Vitalli blogs at agilevalues.com. As your team matures and becomes more experienced, you’d think your estimates and planning poker sessions would improve as well. Seems […]
How feedback helps you develop better software: insights from the Jira Mobile team
Collecting and responding to user feedback is what makes agile software development lean. This relationship creates a constant need to release early and develop with users in mind. As a result, user feedback is crucial to understanding how to add value to a product. Learn why feedback collection and early user involvement was such an important decision to the Jira mobile team, how this set them up for success in a mobile world, and how feedback fits into the lifecycle of any software product.
Jira Software Cloud is now available in Portuguese, Korean, and Russian
Today we’re pleased to announce that Jira Software Cloud is now available in 3 new languages: Portuguese, Korean, and Russian. Over the past three years Jira Software has seen tremendous growth around the globe, including incredible 35% year-over-year growth in Russia and South Korea and over 50% year-over-year growth in Brazil. To further empower software teams in these three countries to release higher quality software faster, we’ve translated Jira into Portuguese, Korean, and Russian to provide a native product experience.
Agile marketing: fad or future of marketing?
Can agile methodologies used to deliver products really help marketers in delivering campaigns? We think the answer is yes. In today’s world of constant customer feedback, marketers must be able to adjust their plans based on what’s trending in digital and social media. And with that, they need a better way to manage their marketing projects. That is why many are looking at agile marketing and methods such as scrum and kanban, to help.
AtlasCamp 2016: fueling cloud collaboration for all teams
Atlassian is helping teams across all industries do amazing things. The common thread between all teams is the need to work smarter and faster. And we see more and more teams choosing to collaborate in the cloud. During today’s keynote at AtlasCamp 2016 I shared new product advancements for team productivity in the cloud. At a time when the speed of software development continues to increase, our Atlassian teams are focused on delivering new tools to help you work smarter and be more connected with your team.
Know thy customer: agile’s essential guide to user story maps
A story map is a visual representation of the journey a customer takes with a product, including activities and tasks they complete. Agile teams create the story map in a collaborative session to ensure they have a shared understanding of the customer and their desired outcomes. Today I’ll show you the basics of user story mapping and why it’s a worthwhile endeavour for your agile team.
My life runs on Jira: an inventory system for carp fishing
By using Atlassian Jira (Core or Software) every day, I became crazy about wanting to “jiralyse” everything. As the product moves to being less and less linked to IT software development, it’s becoming easier and easier to use Jira not only for workflows and customer relationships but also for data analysis. Check out how I built a JIRA-based carp catches inventory system!
6 steps to better release management in Jira
In a DevOps world, work is often merged to master multiple times a day, but it’s not always easy to know when changes ship. Developers have full control over deploying their changes to customers which makes it extra important that those changes are tracked. The good news is that teams can automate much of this process using Jira or Jira Service Desk. Here are six actionable steps for better release management in the Jira platform.
Agile roadmap planning done right with Jira Software and Portfolio for Jira
Agile software development supports a release plan, but it’s challenging to coordinate that on a multi-team level when you’ve got a lot of dependencies between teams. Rosetta Stone, a language learning technology company, found a solution to this challenge by bringing their entire development organization together about once per quarter to map out 10 to 12 weeks of work. And last week, I was lucky enough to watch how they do this at their 5th program increment planning (dubbed “PI5”). Here’s how it worked.
Agile portfolio management with Portfolio for Jira and Jira Software
Using both Jira Software and Portfolio for Jira, teams can see whether the day-to-day work they’re doing maps directly to the company’s overall strategy. But people often ask me “well, what happens in Portfolio for Jira and what happens in Jira Software?”. So I decided to throw together a quick diagram to show you how they fit together.
4 new Jira Software features you didn’t know about
Since the launch of Jira Software, we’ve added some features to make the lives of every software team member easier. But you might not know these features exist! Read on to learn how these four features put more control of Jira projects into the hands of team leads, scrum masters, and developers. You can start using these features today, and we guarantee they’ll make you and your team more efficient.
Top 10 user suggestions addressed by Portfolio for Jira’s live plans
Ever since I joined Atlassian as a product manager for Portfolio for Jira, there is one thing that keeps blowing my mind: the quantity and quality of feedback we’re receiving from you, our users. It’s humbling to see how much effort you put into providing us with great ideas, detailed descriptions of challenges you are […]