3 New Bitbucket Apps to Stay on Top of Your Projects – Third Quarter 2018
November 8, 2018
#How To#Bitbucket
6 min
With so many apps for Atlassian products on the Atlassian Marketplace, it can be pretty tough to cover every solution out there if you want to power up your Bitbucket. That’s why we’ve taken the time to try out and recommend a couple of new apps for users who want to get the most out of their Bitbucket experience. Here is our top three apps appeared on the Atlassian Marketplace in the third quarter:
You can also check our picks of the most interesting Bitbucket apps released in the first and the second quarters of 2018.
Commit Graph for Bitbucket Server
Commit Graph for Bitbucket Server appeared on the Marketplace in 2016 as a part of the paid PR-Booster app. Now it is an independent free add-on that helps you get a clear overview of commit activity across branches in a nice way so you can identify them quickly. This graph integrated into the Commits page allows your team correctly render octopus merges and orphan branches.
You can easily filter and search user names, Jira tickets, and more. You will see the results in a condensed git graph.
This app does not cache, persist, or index any data, works on large Data Center instances and is compatible with all branching strategies.
SonarCloud is a handy tool that helps you analyze your source code detecting the various issues that may influence the code quality. Moreover, this app supports all major programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, C/C++, and more.
Powerful static code analyzers of the SonarCloud app help you track bugs and quality issues providing you with the overall picture of your code commit by commit. This apps allows you to detect and fix issues before they are merged into the master branch.
The Sonar Cloud team will offer you a paid plan in case you need to run a private check for the closed source code
Project Size List for Bitbucket is a tool that lets developers view all projects with their storage space (MB) used on the hard disk. Now you can sort your projects by size.
You can create project tables in Bitbucket to list your repositories and projects including information about their size, forks, branches and branch permissions. This app also helps you search specific projects and repositories.
If you want to get more information about your projects, for example, pull request and commits metrics, you can try out Awesome Graphs for Bitbucket. This app allows you to quickly evaluate the performance of your team and get the insights into your projects’ history and code quality.
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3 New Apps to Power Up Dev Tools – Second Quarter 2018
July 26, 2018
#News#Bitbucket
5 min
There’s always new content arriving on the Atlassian Marketplace with the potential to change the way your work, so we’ve taken the liberty of rounding up the best new Dev Tool solutions for you to try. You can also check similar post for the first quarter of 2018 to read about other handy apps picked by our team.
Here is our top three new free add-ons for Atlassian Bitbucket and Bamboo released in between April 1 and June 30:
Browse through a brief overview of these products to learn which ones can be a catch for your team.
Needs Work Merge Check for Bitbucket
Checks for merging pull requests in Bitbucket prevent pull requests from being merged until your required conditions are met. In such situations the Merge button is not available letting you know what should be done to take your pull request a step further.
The Linked Pull Requests app provides you with easily visible links between related code changes you can have at hand. It adds the Create link button to every pull request you can use to choose the required pull request from other project or repository.
The pull requests you have chosen will be shown as the links with their status information on the sidebar and you can easily navigate between them.
Stride is a platform for workplace communication that can be tailored to all your requirements. Practically all Atlassian products have integration with Stride. Now you can receive updates about your Bamboo build results right in Stride with the help of Notifications from Bamboo to Stride.
All you need to do is to get your access token and add this app to Stride. After that just add the Stride notifications to your plan configuration in Bamboo. That’s it. Now you will receive Bamboo build notifications sent directly into the required Stride room providing you with information about the success or failure of your builds.
If you want to keep your team with up to date Bamboo notifications, you should try this simple tool.
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5 New Jira Apps to Work Agile – Second Quarter 2018
July 20, 2018
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11 min
Last week we presented you with our Confluence favorites of the second quarter. We’re back this week with an all-new list of Jira apps for you to try. Plus, you can try the Jira apps released in the first quarter that may help your team work smarter. Check them all out and share your feedback with us.
In fact, so many Jira apps come out every month that it’s difficult to keep track of them all. However, every quarter we do the legwork for you and select the five apps we like best. So if you are looking for some new solutions to get more done in Jira, meet our list of the five new add-ons that will help you:
We’re certain that any and all of these apps will make your life easier, and help you get the most out of your Jira.
Chat for Service Desk – Chats to Issues
Chat for Service Desk – Chats to Issues allows you to integrate chat as an additional communication channel to Service Desk. When your customer starts a chat conversation, it automatically transforms into request and all new messages appear as comments in the Service Desk tickets. This handy app helps you keep all requests from your clients in one place.
This app perfectly works within the customer service portal, on mobile screens, and on external web sites. The agent issue view allows your team to interact with the customers from within Jira naturally. Now your customer service reps can determine when they are visible online letting your customers know when you are available for chatting.
You can maximally simplify the complex process of customer interaction with the help of this useful solution.
Enhanced User Profile for Jira helps you smoothly perform bulk operations with user profiles. Now you can add and update your Jira users’ information and properties in bulk.
You just need to upload a CSV file that contains the required information about new or existing Jira users. This way you can add phone numbers, emails, location, time zones, and any other information you want to have at hand.
This app allows you to see the assignee and reporter details when you hover over the name of the user.
This add-on can be useful for the teams who need to quickly access their users’ information. This tool lets you save the time you usually spend to find the required user details and easily browse through various user profiles.
Pricing: The pricing for the Enhanced User Profile for Jira app starts from $65 for 25 users and ends at $1,320 for 10,000+ users.
Great Gadgets for Jira Server
Great Gadgets for Jira Server provides you with the eight useful tools you can add to your agile dashboard. It contains gadgets that allow your team to organize their work and track the overall progress of the projects helping team members work together in the most effective manner possible.
This app offers you five Agile gadgets that will help you better understand your development process, making releasing software easier. These gadgets allow you to:
Track the completion of work throughout the sprint;
Predict how quickly a team can work;
Monitor velocity to ensure consistent performance over time;
Ensure the flow of work across the team is consistent:
Improve your team’s processes.
You can also use the time management tools this app has to assist you with managing time and making the most of it, for any business or personal situation.
Add this handy gadgets to your Jira dashboard to boost the productivity if your team.
Pricing: The price of Great Gadgets for Jira Server starts from $80 for 25 users and ends at $960 for 10,000+ users.
Tree CustomField
Tree CustomField is the app that allows you to see a tree display in your Jira tasks. This add-on allows you to easily create and sort options using the CustomField schemas. You can create as many options as you need and easily drag and drop them from one category to another.
Moreover, you can set one Tree Schema for different fields.
This app provides you with the single select and multi select field types.
Pricing: The price of Tree CustomField starts at $130 for 25 users and ends at $2,640 for 10,000+ users.
Agile Retrospectives for Jira
Agile Retrospectives for Jira is a customizable tool that helps you make your team collaboration more engaging. Every member of your team can create a Retrospective session and share it with the team. You can choose either to run an open retrospective or an anonymous session. The session consists of four stages:
Think.
Group.
Vote.
Discuss.
So once you’ve started the session, your colleagues can share their ideas on each column. If you have some ideas on the same topic, you can easily group them.
When you’ve grouped all the inputs, your team members can vote for the ideas they like best.
Now you can discuss the most voted topics and create action items based on your discussion and assign them to your colleagues. You can always come back to the session to review the progress.
This app helps you focus on what really matters for your projects at them moment.
Pricing: The Agile Retrospectives app price for Jira Cloud starts at $37/mo for 20 users and ends at $3,152.50/mo for 2,000 users.
These were our favorites in the second quarter of this year. We think that these apps can help you boost the productivity of your team. You can try any of them for free and make your own choice.
If we missed any great new Jira apps, tell us about them in the comments!
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5 New Confluence Apps to Achieve More in Less Time – Second Quarter 2018
July 12, 2018
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11 min
Every quarter we review all new apps for Atlassian products that appear on the Marketplace and publish the list of our favorites. We usually start our blog post series with Confluence and you can check our previous post featuring Confluence apps that were released in the firstquarter of this year.
This time we have reviewed more than 70 Confluence apps released between April 1 and June 30 and selected five handy solutions for Confluence Server you may like to try:
Now let’s see each app in details and find their advantages.
Smart Attachments for Confluence
Sometimes sharing files in Confluence with your team can be challenging. You need to create a document, upload the required files, and then share the page you created with your colleagues. To improve your experience with getting quick access to project documents and files, we designed the Smart Attachments for Confluence app.
This useful add-on helps you keep all sorts of documents and media assets that relate to your current project activities in a shareable space storage.
The Smart Attachments app allows you to upload multiple files by dropping them into the space storage on the fly. You can also easily rename and delete your files.
Your team members can keep track of specific document revisions choosing the required version.
This handy app allows you to embed the documents from the file storage of the space into your Confluence pages.
Smart Attachments for Confluence takes team collaboration to the next level helping you keep project files and documents organized to your needs.
Pricing: The pricing for Smart Attachments for Confluence Server starts from $100 for 25 users and ends at $4,200 for 10000+ users.
Advanced Children Display for Confluence
The Advanced Children Display for Confluence app provides you with an efficient way to navigate through a lot of content in Confluence. This simple tool allows you to list the child pages of any page and the further descendants. You can easily specify the depth of descendant pages to display.
If you click the plus sign, you will see the links to all the headings of the child pages. This way you can quickly navigate to the required part of the document you are searching for.
This app provides you with the advanced capabilities of the Children Display Macro and the Table of Contents Macro all in one.
Team Admin for Confluence is a lifesaver for space administrators. This app allows you to manage your space groups on the fly. All you need to do is to open the space permissions and create a new space group.
For example, this can be helpful when you want to grant the space permissions to new hires on probation period. This way you can make your space read-only for your new colleagues without changing the global permissions with no need to ask the Confluence administrator to create new groups and manage space permissions.
You can quickly add members to the existing group and remove them clicking a single button.
This app easily integrates with the Confluence space permissions page. It allows you to configure space groups all in one place.
Pricing: The pricing for Team Admin for Confluence Server starts from $60 for 25 users and ends at $1,230 for 10000+ users.
Advanced spaces list
Advanced spaces list provides you with a bird’s-eye view of all your Confluence spaces. It shows you a set of space metrics and details. You just click the Spaces tab on the Confluence menu.
Now you can quickly access any space of your Confluence site filtering the list of spaces by:
Category;
Type;
Status;
Name.
The Advanced spaces list app provides you with a complete set of statistical information about Confluence spaces in a breeze.
Pricing: The pricing forAdvanced spaces list for Confluence Server starts from $20 for 25 users and ends at $1,500 for 10000+ users.
Blueprint Creator
Blueprint Creator (Advanced Templates) allows you to create templates and blueprints for your pages and blog posts in Confluence. If your authors need to add a number of pages with the same structure, this app will save them time and effort. You can create the template that will help you provide the necessary information when you add various instructions, meeting notes, reports, documentation sites, and more.
Confluence users don’t need programming skills to create blueprints, they can just use the provided form fields and placeholders.
When they create a new page or blog post, they just fill in the fields with the necessary information.
This app helps you manage your projects in a more organized way.
3 New Apps to Boost Bitbucket – First Quarter 2018
April 24, 2018
#How To#Bitbucket
6 min
Last week we shared our top 5 apps for Atlassian Jira that appeared on the Marketplace in the first quarter of 2018. We’ve checked all the new Bitbucket apps and here’s a rundown of the most interesting free Bitbucket apps released in January-March of 2018:
Let’s see each app in details and find their advantages.
Karma
The Karma app is a nice solution that helps you motivate your software engineers and development team. It allows you to award your colleagues for great commits and pull requests improving their karma in Bitbucket.
The Karma overview tab shows you the current karma score, the number of medals received for some impressive improvements, and the total impact by repository of every contributor.
The karma can be improved in two ways:
giving scores;
giving Thank you medals.
The Karma app allows you to like single changes in pull requests.
This add-on helps you reward your developers for collaborating and contributing to your projects. It seems that keeping your competitive edge in the workplace is always a good idea.
Pricing: The Karmaapp for Bitbucket Server is free to use.
Bitbucket Cloud for Slack (Official)
After installation of Bitbucket Cloud for Slack, you get the Bitbucket Cloud bot for Slack that will help your team stay up to date with your Bitbucket activity. You will receive smart notifications about any pull request activity (important notes about pushes, merges, and builds only for your primary branch) and commit comments across the entire repository.
You can fulfill some Bitbucket tasks without leaving your Slack channel:
create a new pull request;
merge PRs right in Slack;
reply to the comments in your pull request;
re-run a failed build pipeline:
ping your team members that have an overdue PRs.
All the notifications are updated with the latest status to get your team on the same page.
The Advanced Logging app allows you to change logging levels for different types of packages via application UI.
Moreover, you can add different system packages by clicking the Add button. So this useful tool helps you change your logging levels in one click.
Pricing: The Advanced Logging app for Bitbucket Server is free to use.
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TodoMe for Jira
TodoMe for Jira is a useful tool that allows you to create and manage todo lists in your Jira instance. You can add personal tasks or assign them to other Jira users.
When you create a new task you can add labels, web links, priority, and more.
This app shows you a number of your open tasks for today on the Jira menu bar, so you can easily access them from any site in Jira.
By default, your todos are not linked to Jira issues or projects. They are created separately letting you add minor tasks that can be completed quickly. However, you can link your tasks to your current Jira issues. This way you can split your issue into some smaller todos.
You can create new projects in the TodoMe console to group the tasks (note that these projects will not be added to your Jira instance). You can also add comments to your tasks clicking the message icon next to the task.
This nice task management and collaboration tool practically redefines how your team works.
Pricing: The price of TodoMe for Jira Server starts from $140 for 25 users and ends at $2,800 for 10,000+ users.
Doitbetter Calendar
Having a well-organized calendar is crucial for knowing what you need to be doing. The Doitbetter Calendar can help you get all team members on track towards achieving your goals. You just create as many calendars as you need choosing the projects you want to display.
So this app visualizes your tasks according to the Event start you have chosen.
You can have a quick overview of any task right in the calendar view mode. You can also share your calendars with your colleagues and set access restrictions to users or groups.
This app for Jira Cloud allows you to add your calendar to the dashboard to always have it at hand. You can also easily drag and drop issues changing the Event start and end dates. These features are in progress for Doitbetter Calendar for Jira Server.
This useful tool allows you to stay connected and on the same page with your team with the help of different features packed inside it.
Pricing: The price for Doitbetter Calendar for Jira Cloud starts at $6/mo for 20 users and ends at $332.50/mo for 2,000 users. You can contact the Do it Better team to learn the price for Jira Server.
ReqFLO – Requirements Management
Successful requirements are the key to delivering high quality products. The ReqFLO – Requirements Management app is a powerful tool for requirement management. It helps you visualize your current project issues as requirements (just click the Import Requirements button) or create new requirements in your projects.
You can easily change the position of any requirement in the tree using a smart drag & drop feature. This way you can prioritize the requirements starting the list from the most important one.
To make sure that all requirements are tested, you can use the traceability matrix.
This solution helps you tailor your Jira to your needs and workflows.
Pricing: The pricing for the ReqFLO – Requirements Management app starts from $100 for 25 users and ends at $16,000 for 10,000+ users.
GoalFocus
Staying focused on your goals can be hard when we have so much going on. Moreover, if you don’t write your goals, they stay in the abstract. The GoalFocus app can help you stay focused and organized. It allows you to set, track, and execute goals for sprints and projects.
You can fix all the steps you take to achieve your goal and track your progress. Your team can access the information about the set goals to stay up to date.
You can plan long-term initiatives and share progress with your stakeholders. So this tool can help you improve the productivity of your workforce and stay focused on what really matters at the moment.
Pricing: The price for GoalFocus for Jira Cloud starts at $28/mo for 20 users and ends at $770/mo for 2,000 users. For Jira Server the price starts from $50 for 25 users and ends at $10,000 for 10,000+ users.
Skills-Radar
The Skills-Radar is a powerful tool for HR management that helps you obtain a complete picture of your personnel development over the time and find the best matching tasks for your employees.
After installation of this add-on, every user receives access to the Skills and Proficiencies menu. The HR manager adds a list of different skills that can be required for various positions. Every user can rate him/herself accordingly.
Users can also take a test that measures their personality type. This information will help your HR department to better understand what kind of tasks can be assigned to each employee.
Every user can compare personal skills with some reference profiles set in the system.
When you create a new task, you can find the best matching job profile with the help of skill diagrams comparison (as demonstrated above). You just need to click the Assign by skills button. This way you can staff your projects with the right resources.
This app is a great solution if you want to identify the best skills and traits of each team member. It can also help you find some gaps your employees have and help them improve their skills.
Pricing: The price for Skills-Radar for Jira Cloud starts at $30/mo for 20 users and ends at $662.50/mo for 2,000 users. For Jira Server the price starts from $500 for 25 users and ends at $7,500 for 10,000+ users.
These were our five favorite Jira apps in the first quarter of 2018. Implementing any of these add-ons will definitely help you get your tasks done faster, better, and more easily. You can try any of them for free and make your own choice.
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