An overview of Atlassian’s Jira, an issue and project tracking software. You can see more at http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview/

Meeting Description:

Angela Boardman and Shahzad Zafar will lead a discussion of how their organizations are using Jira and go over some of the software’s features. Other Jira users are encouraged to attend and share how the software supports their process too. We’ll save time for questions and answers, so make plans to attend!

This will be a lunch meeting at 75^th Street brewery and attendees will be responsible for purchasing their own lunch.

About the Speakers:

Angela is a consultant for Advanced Technology Group - she focuses on Agile development, process improvement, project management and coaching. Her passion is coding (Java), but the majority of recent demands have her serving primarily as Scrum Master. Angela is CSM/CSP certified; she advocates Agile anywhere and everywhere it can be applied, thrives on educating others, and even applies Agile principles outside of work where possible.

Shahzad Zafar is a Sr. Team Lead and Technical Project Manager at Cerner Corporation and is an Agile Champion at Cerner as well as a frequent JIRA user. He started as a software engineer before transitioning to project management. He has experience with multiple project management tools such as MS Project, VersionOne and JIRA.