Craig and Renee, sitting on the banks of the Potomac River on a sunny but slightly windy day at Agile 2015, they catchup with JC Huet, creator of GreenHopper (renamed to JIRA Agile and post-podcast now JIRA Software) and Tempo Folio:
- Craig was apparently the first client of GreenHopper that was built in a basement, now JIRA Agile is the most popular JIRA add-on with over 500,000 users, used by more than 80% of JIRA users
- the idea was to have a tool that brought bugs into software management
- the name GreenHopper represented the Green company branding at the time, and Hopper was for cards hopping between columns
- a shout out to our friend Nick Muldoon (who is now writing Atlassian plugins at Arijea)
- Tempo Folio plugin is about supporting cost management, including time sheeting, estimation, forecasting and allocation
- time and dedication and about three months is all it takes to create an Atlassian plugin (and JC challenges Renee to write her own WSJF plugin)
- hippies, not EP’s!
- versions on frameworks are good, means feedback changes are coming
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