Agile Software Development & Atlassian Partner
Atlassian is a leading software Development Company which mainly concentrate on tracking, testing and collaborates offering its service from Enterprises to open source projects. Many software development organizations are considering moving to an Agile development methodology in order to better meet their increase product quality, decrease costs, and respond more quickly to market needs. The definition of Agile software development evolved in the mid-1990s as part of a reaction against “heavyweight” development methods. Then it bore Agile development, a style of software development which emphasizes customer satisfaction through continuous delivery of functional software.
Atlassian is popular for developing affordable, lightweight agile software development tools that help technical teams collaborate. Its products include JIRA + GreenHopper, the agile project management and issue tracking tool and Confluence, the most widely used enterprise wiki. GreenHopper is a plugin for Atlassian JIRA that has been recognized for its support of Agile Software Development. Its user interface represents JIRA issues as index cards that can be easily arranged on a planning board by simply dragging and dropping the cards. JIRA is used by more than 12,000 organizations for bug tracking and software project management. Customers include Adobe, Accenture, American Express, BBC, Boeing, Deutsche Bank, Lockheed Martin, Nikon, Oracle, Rackspace, Sony, US Navy, and many others. Confluence is an enterprise wiki that allows internal teams to communicate and share information such as news, projects updates and meeting minutes through an in-built blogging function. It also connects with Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint. In addition, Confluence includes social networking elements such as status updates and the ability to add people to your network and follow them. Atlassian demonstrated its Open Social integration into Confluence 3.0 as part of the 2009 Google I/O (‘Innovating in the Open’) Developer Conference held in San Francisco, United States, a developer gathering focused on programming using Google and open web technologies.
As the Atlassian supports agile development, its provides Agile tools which are designed to integrate with one another to help your team collaborate in an agile way. The agile tools include, Bamboo for continuous integration, Crucible for code reviews, Clover for code coverage analysis, and JIRA for issues tracking. This new acquisition solidifies Atlassian’s intent to, “give agile developers a seamless approach to project management within JIRA.
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