Earlier this week, zAgile released Teamwork 3 -- a much anticipated and exciting release with significant focus towards improving the integration and interoperability of JIRA and Confluence for team collaboration and software project management.
With zAgile Teamwork, teams can capture Features, Use Cases, Requirements, Test Suites, Test Cases and other project artifacts in Confluence and use JIRA for managing the execution and workflow of related tasks through Projects and Versions -- with Teamwork automatically integrating the definitions with executions.
For example, Requirements may be captured in Confluence. And within Confluence, engineering managers can initiate Approval and Implementation Workflow Tasks, respectively, in JIRA.
Similarly, Test Cases may be captured and related to Requirements in Confluence but executed across Versions using JIRA -- with full tracking and traceability.
We believe that by separating definition from execution, organizations are able to get the best of both worlds -- using Confluence for capturing and sharing project artifacts, and JIRA for managing task execution, workflows and notifications.
The key features of Teamwork 3 include:
- Easy creation of templated and parameter-driven Confluence pages
- A redesigned JIRA plugin for easy installation and support for issue submission from Confluence
- The ability to interact with JIRA workflow tasks from within Confluence tables
- Improved Project Dashboards in Confluence
- Pull-down Action Lists in Confluence for embedding Confluence page and JIRA Issue Creation Actions in simple tables
- Integration of JIRA Users and Groups into zCALM repository
- Integration of CRM concepts (Customer Account, Customer Case, etc) with the Software Engineering Lifecycle
and ... a lot more.
If you are a JIRA and Confluence user, Teamwork 3 is worth checking out :)
zAgile Teamwork 3 is now available for Confluence 3.5 and JIRA 4.3 (support for JIRA 4.4 coming soon).
-Sanjiva
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