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How visuals can boost the accuracy of product development
This is a guest post written by Mac McConnell, VP of Marketing at Gliffy, creators of visual planning apps on the Atlassian Marketplace – Gliffy Project and Gliffy Diagram. “That is not what the ticket said to build. How could that paragraph of text be misunderstood? It is so clear. ” -Any Product Manager, Anywhere Any […]
Why greater autonomy is the future of software development
Atlassian releases first-ever State of the Developer report.
How cognitive biases influence software development
Don’t let your brain trick you when you’re testing software.
Happy customers, quality code: the new trends in software development
We surveyed 500 pros to find out what the future of the industry looks like.
Career development planning for the intellectually curious
How to make sure you create a career development plan that sets you up for success, including the Start, Stop, Continue method and T-shaped professionals.
Modernizing product development in a traditional Japanese keiretsu
This is a guest post written by Hiroshi Ohnuki, CEO of Ricksoft Co., Ltd. and Sean Osawa, CEO of Ricksoft, Inc. Ricksoft Co., Ltd. is an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner in Tokyo and was awarded Top New Sales Partner in Asia Pacific region in 2015 and 2016. Ricksoft, Inc. was established in 2016 in San […]
Inside Atlassian: An interview with Crowd Development Lead, Marcin Kempa
Hi Marcin, can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a development lead on the Crowd team located in the Gdańsk office. My entire professional career, almost 10 years now, has been focused on developing mission critical enterprise products – servicing industries ranging from aviation to financial services. I made my way to Atlassian two […]
User testing in the software development process… when you don’t have a billion users
In DevOps circles, there’s a myth about the software development process: real software teams automate everything. Look at Facebook. Look at Google. Look at Etsy. Companies killing it at DevOps. Hundreds of deployments a day. Push-button, amazing, magical automation. And like many myths, there’s some truth to this one. Continuous integration, automated testing, and cloud-deployment […]
The challenges of scaling software development teams globally – Part 2
How we’re solving them with Jira This article is part of a blog series! Part 1 – The challenges of scaling software development teams globally Part 2 – The challenges of scaling software development teams globally – How we’re solving them with Jira This is the second blog in a series of two. In the […]
Bringing sanity to your website development projects
Websites. They just happen – right? Wrong! Just ask anyone who manages projects for a living. Unfortunately, this isn’t an obvious answer to a lot of people out there who request website projects. The thinking is that websites are so simple, easy to use, and beautiful, they must be a breeze to create. But, there […]
When I grow up, I want to be… a development lead?
It’s not quite what I had in mind when growing up, but right now my role title tells me I am a team lead. In the course of my time in this role, I’ve learned that being a team lead is something my fellow developers are interested in doing someday, so I want to share about my experience. This is what I’ve learned in discovering what it means to be a team lead.
Faster and leaner: the trend toward smaller software development teams
We recently conducted a survey to assess and evaluate the latest software development trends amongst our customer base and more than 1,300 people weighed in. While most of our insights are focused on process, one thing stood out to us that we wanted to dig deeper into: 80% of respondents said the average development team in their org had 10 or fewer members. Here are our thoughts on why that’s happening, and the advantages small teams enjoy.
From Asana to Jira Software: one customer’s journey towards agile development
Switch Communications is a San Francisco based company whose mission is to provide cloud-based business communications systems for the fastest growing, most innovative companies in the world. Switch.co recently found that their project management software wasn’t fully supporting their software development process. The most glaring pain point was bug reporting, and they needed a single […]
Making the shift to behavior driven development
Many years ago, some smart people devised a better way to develop software quickly and with high quality using a test-first methodology in place of a traditional requirements-driven approach. But businesses quickly realized it didn’t give them the visibility and coverage they needed for the most important business cases in their systems. So, a variant was born called behavior driven development (BDD). Now, organizations could push features quickly with quality AND confidence that they met end user expectations.
Examples of capturing customer feedback for agile development
Customer feedback in agile development is a three-step process of gathering, documenting, and prioritizing. Here are examples from our product managers.
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