GreenHopper Drinkup – San Francisco, May 24

Calling all GreenHopper Gurus in San Francisco! Shaun Clowes of the GreenHopper team in Sydney is visiting San Francisco for Atlassian Summit. He'd love to buy you a pint. Or three. Join Shaun, myself and other GreenHopper Gurus on Thursday May 24 from 6pm at Thirsty Bear. Find us in the Billar Room. Shaun and I are keen to learn how you are using GreenHopper. We are happy to chat all things Agile/Kanban/Scrum/DevOps and we will also have time to answer any GreenHopper questions you

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Business Frameworks with Ad hoc Canvas

Earlier this week we shared the benefits of using Confluence if you're on the management team. We want to give some more love to our managers and business users, with this guest post by Martin Cleaver, Director at Comalatech, showing how easily you can create business frameworks in Confluence using Ad hoc Canvas. Business Frameworks the Wiki Way, with Ad hoc Canvas Flick through just about any book on business & management from the last four decades and you can't help but notice the use of

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Why did you GO JIRA?

  • By Ken Olofsen, Product Marketing Manager - JIRA
  • About JIRA
  • On May 16, 2012
We have recently been talking to lots of customers about the main reasons why they decided to GO JIRA. Whether they switched to JIRA from an old bug tracker or just started up a new project, we found the same reasons came up again and again. Top reasons to GO JIRA Here are the top 5 reasons why our customers decide to GO JIRA: Polished User Experience - Create, update, and work through issues using a fast and intuitive web interface with lightning-quick keyboard shortcuts. Customizable Workflows

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RIP FedEx Day, Meet [Your idea here] Day

  • By Joe Lambe, Demand Generation Manager
  • About News
  • On May 16, 2012
Since 2005, we've been holding quarterly internal "innovation" days - our unique blend of a hack day and Google's 20% time. Seven years later, we've done 19 of these events, featuring more than 500 projects from developers, IT ninjas, and even marketing folks. The name for the event was inspired by the one company that "ships" more than anyone - FedEx - and their commitment to ship something in 24 hours. We liked the idea of applying that "ship in a day" concept to these internal innovation hack-a-thons,

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Atlassian Summit 2012: It’s gonna be huge

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
  • About News
  • On May 15, 2012
Atlassian Summit is just two weeks away. Here's a taste of what you have to look forward to! If you haven't bought a ticket yet, now's your chance to seize the moment! Six awesome marquee speakers Jeff Atwood (codinghorror.com), Michael Lopp (randsinrepose.com), Pamela Fox (indie dev), Eric Ries (Startup Lessons Learned), Dave Thomas (Bedarra Research) and Jeff Ma (MIT Blackjack Team and entrepreneur) will be sharing their secrets to software development on high producing teams. In addition, the

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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Launches Atlassian Into Space

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) uses a host of Atlassian products to build the software used for flight mission planning as well as modeling data sent back from satellites and Mars rovers. I sat down with David Mittman, lead software developer and "default Atlassian guy" at JPL to get a closer look at what they're up to. JPL was founded in the 1930s as a place to test new rocket technologies, and—after the creation of NASA in 1958—was chartered with developing the robotic spacecraft

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