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Kanplan: where your backlog meets kanban

There’s no silver bullet when it comes to picking an agile framework for your agile team. Whether you use kanban, scrum, or a combination of the two, like scrumban, agile is a team process. Every team needs to figure out which framework works best as a foundation for how to plan, track, and release great software.

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Super-powered continuous delivery with Git

Developing as a team can be messy. You’re trying to understand which pieces of code everyone is working on, trying to make sure changes don’t conflict, trying to find defects before your customers do, and trying to keep everyone connected with the project up to date on how things are progressing. As it turns out, each of those problems is addressed by either Git branching or continuous delivery.

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Inside Atlassian: Jira workflows for tracking blog projects

Chances are, your marketing team manages blog projects on spreadsheets. You probably track who is working on it, what state it’s in, when it’s going to be published, what it’s about, how it fits into larger marketing campaigns… And that’s just the stuff you’re concerned with before it’s published. It’ll come as no surprise that Atlassian’s marketing team uses Jira Core, Confluence, and Hipchat to keep our blogs running smoothly. So today I’m going to get all meta with a blog about how we use Jira Core, including some example workflows, to track our blogs.

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From Asana to Jira Software: one customer’s journey towards agile development

Switch Communications is a San Francisco based company whose mission is to provide cloud-based business communications systems for the fastest growing, most innovative companies in the world. Switch.co recently found that their project management software wasn’t fully supporting their software development process. The most glaring pain point was bug reporting, and they needed a single […]

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Start real-time planning with live plans in Portfolio for Jira

Live Plans is a new type of real-time planning experience in Portfolio for Jira. By loading data dynamically from Jira Software, Live Plans lets you plan in real time and be assured that everything is always up to date. We invite you to try out the new Live Plans feature and pioneer the experience with us.

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Be more agile with new sprint permissions

Cue the music for one of Jira Software’s new permissions: manage sprints. Learn more about permissions and how they function behind the scenes to affect every member of your team. Plus, get an overview of how manage sprint permissions bring simplicity to planning and tracking work, remove overhead, and minimize risk for everyone – no more single points of failure and instead an environment in which the entire team can be more agile.

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Three resolutions for better agile ceremonies

No matter where you fall on the scale from zero to agile, by mastering the basics of agile development, you and your team can make awesome software. So in the light of the new year and bettering oneself, I propose three resolutions for your team – each one focused on an agile ceremony.

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4 tips for using Jira and Outlook

In a software development setting, it’s a common requirement to transfer information from emails to Jira Software, Jira Core, or Jira Service Desk. Have you ever wondered “Is there is a faster way to create a new issue?” Or “How do I work with the Jira Software notification emails?” These four best practices will answer those questions and show you how to get the most out of using Jira Software and Outlook together.

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Atlassian University: new ways to help teams use Atlassian products

We’re excited to announce new learning content at Atlassian University to help accelerate your success. Atlassian University now offers something for everyone, from brand-new users to Jira admins. Our new learning levels provide content that’s focused on where you are – enabling teams to get the most out of Atlassian products.

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PMs weigh in: prioritizing customer feedback and backlog grooming

Gathering customer feedback, turning feedback into actionable inputs, and then prioritizing those inputs for your development team are some of the most important functions of a PM. They’re also the most challenging. Every PM has their way of balancing and prioritizing their products backlog, but we want to give you some additional tips and techniques […]

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Inside Atlassian: a product manager and a dev manager walk into a planning meeting…

Product planning meetings are one of the most important meetings in a product’s lifecycle so we decided to take you inside a product planning meeting at Atlassian by filming the latest Portfolio for Jira planning meeting (filming the planning meeting of a planning tool seemed only fitting). These product planning meetings tend to happen quarterly and last about four hours (don’t worry – we time-lapsed it for you of course!).

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Examples of capturing customer feedback for agile development

Customer feedback in agile development is a three-step process of gathering, documenting, and prioritizing. Here are examples from our product managers.

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Inside Atlassian: designing software with the customer at heart

I decided to sit down with different Jira designers to learn how they reimagined Jira as Jira Software, Jira Core, and Jira Service desk from a design perspective. The stories were endless, but three things kept popping up in each designer’s story: design spikes, live data prototyping, and a stellar feedback collector.

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Portfolio for Jira: project managers edition

This is part three of Portfolio for Jira’s “across the team” series. In this edition, I’m going to show you how project and program managers can use Portfolio for Jira to accurately plan across projects and teams.

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Keeping projects on track: four lessons for development managers

Imagine you had a product with millions of users, over five million lines of code, and more than 100 developers working on it. And then your company decided that this product had the opportunity to become an even more successful platform. Check out how two of our development managers co-coordinated Jira’s move from product to platform.