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60 agile pros tell me what really matters in agile today
Despite what you might have heard, agile is alive, well, and solving some serious problems across the world of business, tech, and beyond
Striking a balance between speed and quality in continuous delivery
This is a guest post written by Adam Wignall, Head of Quality Assurance & TM4J Cloud Product Manager at Adaptavist, a Marketplace Vendor and Solution Partner. [cta]Over the past few years, we have accelerated into a fast-paced ‘everything now’ era. Endless tech-powered innovations are giving customers more choices than ever before. When developing new products and […]
How Jira Software’s feature flagging integrations help you release with confidence
We’re bringing integrations with feature management services LaunchDarkly and Rollout into Jira Software. Before releasing this integration, we custom-built it into Jira Software and it’s been instrumental to the way we build products. Read on to learn more, sign up for the webinar, and get the integrations. Join our webinar with Taylor Pechacek, Sr. Product […]
Why diversity in teams is the key to customer success
This article was written with Teagan Harbridge of Easy Agile. What does it mean to be agile? Everyone has an opinion about it, and the amount of agile-flavored literature continuously grows, fostering interest and engagement. But what is at the heart of agile? People. In 2001, 17 software developers came together to write the ultimate ‘agile […]
A preview of the new agility boards in Jira Software
[cta]For more than a decade, Jira Software has helped teams around the globe turn ideas into reality. From building the world’s most prominent music streaming service, to landing a rover on Mars, to distributing life-changing healthcare in developing nations. Regardless of a team’s size, structure, or preferred style of work, Jira Software’s power and flexibility allows teams to plan, track, and deliver. However, it’s no secret this same power and […]
Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools and the state of agile
[cta]In recent years, we’ve seen agile methodologies adopted by a variety of teams beyond software development, watched the rise of DevOps, and witnessed adaptations of agile across larger and larger organizations. It’s clear that in 2018, agile has reached mainstream adoption for companies large and small, across virtually every industry. The outcomes of agile—higher quality software in […]
How to choose the best methods of estimation for planning
This article was written with Jacek Wizmur-Szymczak of Spartez. Every planning or grooming session, where team members meet to estimate stories and work items, has its own rules. Sometimes we haven’t estimated for a long time, the backlog is huge, and time is limited. Sometimes we have a team that can meet in the same office, […]
5 trends we’re seeing from open-sourcing agile
tl;dr See the raw data for yourself: These tweets are defining the future of software development. [cta]One of the first steps in improving any product is talking to customers. But how do you go about improving a process? Or even a methodology? What if this methodology is used in thousands of ways by millions of people? These were some of the very questions we asked ourselves when […]
Productivity data proves stand-ups aren’t just for coders anymore
Poor communication and wasted work are toxic for any team – but there’s an easy solution.
15 hot takes on the future of agile
#IWish there was another kind of Agile besides just Scrum and Kanban. #RetroOnAgile — Dan Chuparkoff (@Chuparkoff) January 28, 2018 Agile is about to reach its 20th birthday. Software teams, support teams, and even marketing teams have been practicing its rules and principles for years. These teams have built some amazing products thanks to agile […]
Why you should learn more about agile HR
This is a guest post by Alexis Croswell, Content Marketing Manager at Culture Amp. The concepts behind agile development have proven so successful, other teams, like HR, are starting to adopt the agile philosophy. You’ve likely seen some great articles on agile software development, which was created as a way to meet the rapidly changing […]
Groom your backlog like a boss with Jira Software
How many times have you heard — or said — this? It’s so easy to let the projects, requests, and bugs pile up in your backlog until you can’t even remember what these tickets were in the first place. And it can feel like an impossible task to even sort through them: prioritizing what to […]
Streamline your risk management process with Portfolio for Jira
Every good agile team needs to know, is everything on track? And if it’s not, why? That is why Portfolio for Jira has launched a new dependency report that shows you dependencies across multiple teams and projects in a single view. It helps you avoid possible project delays and will save you from scouring individual […]
Catching up with Gosia Kowalska, product manager lead for Jira Software Server
It’s an exciting time for the Jira Software Server team. In the past 6 months, we’ve been hard at work on product improvements, new feature requests and setting our future vision with one goal in mind: how to best support agile teams in growing organizations. Leading the charge for the product team is Gosia Kowalska. I […]
Boiling the ocean with Portfolio for Jira: adventures in capacity planning
[Captain’s log August 1, 2117 – somewhere off the Gold Coast. What follows is an account of how I created the agile capacity plan for building the software that will power our mission to boil the oceans – and save humanity.] . . . If you’re reading this, it means our mission failed and the crew is […]