Live from the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas, Texas, Atlassian, a leading provider of collaboration software for product development, today unveiled GreenHopper 6, the newest release of its agile project management and planning system that simplifies agile adoption for new users and experts alike. GreenHopper turbocharges JIRA, Atlassian´s industry-leading issue and project tracking system, to help software development teams quickly plan, manage, track and continually release quality software. The latest release improves visibility and predictability across teams and projects with a refined user experience, improved visualization and additional reporting capabilities for Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies.
GreenHopper 6 makes Scrum easy to implement for new users and agile experts alike. Order the backlog, estimate stories, and create test cases with Bonfire during a planning session. Quickly groom a large backlog with multi-select drag and drop, future sprint planning and the instant filter. (Graphic: Business Wire)
"We can easily track progress against multiple longer-term investments with GreenHopper," said Jeff Palmer, vice president of engineering at Wize Commerce. "GreenHopper has been a critical enabler for our organization´s rollout of Agile this year, and support for Kanban and Scrum allows both our feature and support teams to take advantage of the same tools."
"GreenHopper is incredibly easy and intuitive to use," agrees David Bennett, director of application development at Riverside Publishing. "It´s been instrumental in helping us adopt the Agile methodology."
Unlocking the Power of Agile
GreenHopper 6 introduces a bevy of new capabilities that leverage the visual power of agile planning to increase the speed of distributed teams and how they collaborate.
- One board to rule them all: GreenHopper 6 advances the digital whiteboard by introducing a "single view" board to give individuals and teams quick, custom views of their work so they can quickly sort and shift projects and priorities. Created in seconds, these new boards offer dynamic and speedy view modes to plan, work and report on the numerous items in a backlog.
- Agile best practices built-in: Scrum and Kanban implementation is made easy with GreenHopper´s simple reporting and visual indicators that identify scope risk, remaining work, timing issues and team progress. Development teams can also now manage and groom huge backlogs with GreenHopper´s powerful instant filter.
- JIRA turbocharged: Deeper JIRA integration makes agile project easier than ever. Teams can quickly create GreenHopper boards from any JIRA project and jump between the two with a single click. Team Calendars display sprints so teams can better plan around schedules. Instant filtering improves team visibility and zippy inline editing lets users make changes on-the-fly.
GreenHopper 6 is the culmination of more than a year of agile product innovation with a consistent cadence of new releases and capabilities. The latest release focuses on providing clear visibility into team performance through sprint retrospective reports, managing work via swimlanes, and improving predictability on delivery dates with automated measurement of cycle time.
"This release caps a huge year of innovation for GreenHopper," said Audra Eng, Atlassian´s vice president of product management. "GreenHopper 6 will be a difference-maker for teams big and small trying to take the agile plunge. It´s slick, sexy and chock full of goodness."
More than 650,000 licensed users at 6,300 companies use GreenHopper as their agile project management and planning system. Customers include NYSE Euronext, Constant Contact Inc., Abbott Laboratories, and Autodesk.
Availability
Starting today, Atlassian is offering a free 30-day trial of GreenHopper 6. GreenHopper and JIRA can be purchased for on-site download starting at $20 for 10 users, or in the cloud starting at $20/month for 10 users.
Additional Resources
- Come visit the GreenHopper and JIRA teams at Agile 2012 at booth #402
- Join the GreenHopper team for a live webinar on Wednesday, August 15 from 9-10am (PT): https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/467256634
- Join the discussion by using #chatatlas and following @GreenHopperTeam during a live Twitter Q&A on Thursday, August 16 from 1-2pm (PT)
- Learn more about GreenHopper: http://www.atlassian.com/software/greenhopper
About Atlassian
Atlassian products help innovators everywhere plan, build and launch great software. More than 21,000 large and small organizations "´ including Citigroup, eBay, Netflix and Nike "´ use Atlassian´s issue tracking, collaboration and software-development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time. Learn more at http://atlassian.com.
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