JIRA Community Awaits the Release of JIRA v4.0 September 25, 2009
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Issue & Work Request management System
A diverse community of for-profit and nonprofit business stakeholders, departmental managers, project managers and leads, workflow management system developers and system/software development professionals, are all anxiously waiting for Atlassian’s release of JIRA v4.0. This versatile platform was born as a quest to develop a more powerful and flexible issue management system for software development.
Over the years, Atlassian and its enthusiastic user and development community has evolved JIRA into a powerful workflow management system, capable of managing issues and work requests for large enterprises as well as small organizations.
In the last two years, I’ve designed well over a dozen online custom JIRA issue and work request management systems, for user communities numbering from a dozen to hundreds of users. JIRA has been one of the few platforms where both managers and users have told me they actually enjoy using the systems we have developed. How often do you hear that from your end-user community?
JIRA v4.0 brings to life many of the features and capabilities that users have been asking for over the years. With the Beta Program complete and JIRA Release Candidate 1 now available for download, it appears that established and new JIRA users will have a brand-spanking new platform that will retire the shared spreadsheet approach to issue and work request management.
Managers of nonprofit organizations that need an affordable collaborative online environment for effectively managing issues and project work should take advantage of Atlassian’s Cash for Clunkers promotion and Community license option. For organizations that qualify, a Community and Open Source JIRA license can be obtained for free. Given JIRA’s large worldwide installed user base, the odds are excellent for nonprofit organizations that seek experienced JIRA developers to donate time and expertise toward developing a JIRA issue or work request management system for nonprofit use.
Are you using JIRA or considering using JIRA for group collaboration and management of issues and work requests? I’d like to hear about your experience and thoughts about using JIRA.
