Agile prioritises people over tools, and so do we, but we also use tools to help give people and interactions some extra juice. Practically all of our tools were born from a need we had in our own development process. Xpand IT as an Atlassian partner provide several tools that cover the full SLM (Software Lifecycle Management) Process.

Coupled with the Greenhopper plugin, JIRA is the foundation of a powerful agile platform for developers to plan releases, gather feedback, track issues and manage project status.

Useful for: Developer, Team Lead and Product Manager

Designed for: agile planning, gathering customer feedback and monitoring team performance

Learn more: Take the JIRA + GreenHopper feature tour

Confluence is designed to help agile developers plan requirements, collaborate on changes and display metrics.

Useful for: Developers (internal blogging with peers), technical writers (develop docs) and product managers (collaborate on requirements and Balsamiq mockups)

Designed for: planning (PRDs and JIRA issues macro), lightning feedback (documenting changes, RSS + Dashboards) and team performance metrics (JIRA Issues macro + Bamboo builds plugin)

Learn more: Take the Confluence feature tour

With FishEye's insight into a source code repository agile developers can find code fast, get notified about relevant code changes and receive useful metrics on team performance.

Useful for: Developers (find code fast), Team Leads (metrics on the team and each developer) and Technical Leads (RSS for a branch)

Designed for: lightning feedback and team performance metrics

Learn more: Take the FishEye feature tour

Agile developers use continuous integration to get the most from their unit tests. Set up Bamboo to get instantaneous feedback on the impact of each commit and monitor build metrics.

Useful for: Developers (learn about their commits), Team Leads (get build stats fast) and Testers (perform integration and performance tests early in the game)

Designed for: Testing early and often (CI Whitepaper), lightning feedback (two way IM) and team performance metrics

Learn more: Take the Bamboo feature tour

The ultimate Java code coverage tool for agile development, Clover accurately assesses the impact on your tests and notifies you of test coverage gaps before it is too late.

Useful for: Developers and testers

Designed for: Testing early and often and lightning feedback

Learn more: Take the Clover feature tour

Crucible's integrates peer code review directly into your work habits. Agile developers use Crucible get timely feedback on their code and maintain metrics and an audit trail.

Useful for: Developer (Distributed review), Team lead (get developers to learn from each other) and Technical lead (Get metrics on audit trail on who did what and why)

Designed for: Testing Early and often (pre-commit reviews), lightning Feedback (review notifications), Performance Metrics (reports and audit trail)

Learn more: Take the Crucible feature tour