SAN FRANCISCO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Atlassian
announced the availability of GreenHopper
5, its agile project management and planning tool. The latest
release offers tighter integration with Atlassian JIRA and
includes
improved capabilities for Scrum and Kanban practitioners.
“It can be used by
strict Scrum and Kanban developers, yet it's flexible and
customizable
enough to fit into any agile workflow.”
GreenHopper works in conjunction with JIRA to offer software
engineers a
complete application for planning, managing, tracking and
collaborating
on agile project plans.
"GreenHopper has rapidly become one of our best-selling products
because
of its integration with JIRA, ease of use, and flexible nature,"
said
Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and CEO at Atlassian. "It can be
used by
strict Scrum and Kanban developers, yet it's flexible and
customizable
enough to fit into any agile workflow."
Customer & Market Validation
Atlassian has seen tremendous growth for GreenHopper since the
product
was acquired in June 09. The number of agile
software development teams using GreenHopper grown from 900 to
over
10,700 in less than a year.
Besides the recognition from customers sales, Atlassian has
received
prominent feedback from the industry analyst Forrester. In their
report
titled, The Forrester Wave(TM): Agile Development Management
Tools, Q2
2010 (May, 2010) Atlassian was firmly placed as an industry
leader.
Besides the leadership position, Atlassian was noted as having the
lowest cost-offering for large teams and it was highlighted for
having
strong strategy.
What's new in GH5
-
Simple, fast user experience: A cleaner, more simple UI
makes
for a tightly integrated experience for JIRA users who see their
agile
stories in the context of all of their other issue types (bugs,
enhancements, etc). Reduced clutter makes navigation simple,
while
usability improvements throughout make GreenHopper faster than
ever to
use.
-
Scrum improvements: Among the many scrum features,
GreenHopper
5 speeds backlog management and planning sessions by expanding
inline
editing to all fields on all views. Large backlogs can now be
quickly
prioritised as drag and drop support has been extended to the
pagination. New project templates enable users to add scrum
planning
to any project in just seconds.
-
Kanban improvements: GreenHopper 5 improves support for
kanban
allowing users to set both minimum and maximum column
constraints to
help identify spare capacity or bottlenecks in any workflow.
Adoption and availability
GreenHopper is used for agile project management and development
in 80
countries around the globe — across Fortune 1000, government,
education,
finance and technology sectors.
GreenHopper 5 can be downloaded at http://www.atlassian.com/greenhopper.
About Atlassian
Atlassian is an Australian software company specialising in
software
development and collaboration tools. More than 18,000
organisations of
all sizes use Atlassian's issue tracking, collaboration and
software
development tools to work smarter and deliver quality results on
time.
Learn more at http://www.atlassian.com.
Contacts
SSPR
Tony Keller, +1-847-421-1477 (Media)
tkeller@sspr.com