Trade in your bug tracker for a free version of JIRA 4.0

Atlassian is currently running a promotion for JIRA 4.0 for users to trade in their bug tracker for a free version of JIRA 4.0 (10-user licenses)

Beside keeping track of bugs and change requests, JIRA can also be used for

• Project Management – Track, allocate and report on project tasks with real-time statistics
• Technical Support /Helpdesk – Escalate cases, monitor response statistics and manage team workload.
• Agile Development – Estimate, allocate and track your iterations.

For those that haven’t tried using JIRA, here’s a good opportunity to try out the full enterprise edition of JIRA with no cost!

For those are using JIRA, you might want to share this information to your colleagues who are still using Excel worksheets, Bugzilla or other tools to track issues.

Here’s 10 more good reasons why you want to consider this attractive offer now.

For more details on this promotion, you may check out Atlassian’s website.

And here’s a quick preview on the new features to be launched in JIRA 4.0

A quick comparison between JIRA and Excel

Recently someone asked me what are the advantages of using JIRA as an issue tracker. They have been using Excel for their project management.

I have summarized the key points below:

 
In conclusion, Excel is a good tracking tool if it is used exclusively by 1 person or a small team. But for bigger groups or enterprises, JIRA will be a better solution with in-built features to facilitate collaboration. The information in JIRA can also be exported to Excel format to do those complex graphing or pivot tables. In this case, we can have the best of both worlds.

Introduction to Confluence and Jira

One of our clients have requested for some slides for him to view before the presentation. I thought it will be good to share with everyone on what Confluence and Jira is about.

p.s: It is a bit wordy since it is more meant for reading than presentation

Introduction to Confluence

Introduction to JIRA