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Tarun Upadhyay   //  Tarun is still just flatly amazed by the power of the Internet, its ability to level the field and help the little guy compete with the biggest organizations.

Those little guy success stories are what drags him to work every morning and he lives a small part of that little guy's dream working for hCentive.

Prior to co-founding hCentive, Tarun served as a co-founder and CTO for GlobalLogic - an outsourcing service provider for large, complex products and software - which grew from 0 to 400 engineers while he was the CTO.

Prior to Globallogic, he was co-founder and CTO of Pinelabs - an India-based provider of Loyalty and Payment solutions using Smart Cards. While Tarun was CTO, Pinelabs grew from a drawing board idea to a suite of successful products running at many fortune 500 companies handling millions of credit card transactions per day.

Tarun holds an M.S in Mathematics and Computer Applications from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

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Nov 19 / 9:39am

In search of a decent Jira app on iPhone

by tarun upadhyay
At hCentive, we are big users of Jira Studio. Its been a big help for our distributed team. Unfortunately, I am yet to find a good app to use Jira Studio from my iPhone. Features I need in my Jira Studio iPhone app (in the order of priority) are:
  1. Works with hosted Jira Studio
  2. Shows me what has changes since my last access
  3. Allow editing of jira issues and their workflow transitions
  4. Ability to add comments to issues
Features that are desirable:
  1. Allows creation of issues (directly in greenhopper views)
  2. Shows me Greenhopper boards (Planning Board and Task Board) for my projects.
  3. Allows saving of favorite filters and projects
  4. Integrates confluence activities in the same screen
  5. Text based search of issues (and possibly confluence data)
  6. Caching for offline access
  7. Allows fisheye view of SVN (read only)
  8. Supports custom workflow transitions and custom fields.
I have looked at JiraMate and iJira. The developer for both the applications are apparently slow to respond and both the applications are not being frequently updated (neither of them is compatible with OS 3.0) JiraMate seems to be richer in features with ability to save favorite filters and projects and ability to comment. However, it does not support any editing of issues or any workflow transition. iJira, apparently, does not work with hosted Jira and crashes when a project has large (>1000) number of issues. It allows editing of issues and sorting on many fields. Neither app provides any integration with confluence or fisheye. There seem to be some confluence apps available and mini confluence actually seem nice but I think an integrated jira+confluence+svn app can be very useful for many developers and small teams. I am just surprised that there are no good apps here. Is there no market for an iPhone version of Jira Studio?
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