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Marketing for Startups and Small Teams: A Primer on Lead Generation
This is the third post in our Marketing Essentials blog series. Last week we talked about product marketing and how a product can gain traction in the market. This week we’re focusing on lead generation, showing how a team can drive more traffic to their website. Joe Lambe also contributed to this post. In the […]
Video: Zephyr & Jira for Test Management
Today we hosted a webinar with Zephyr on using Jira for Test Management. Zephyr and its optimized, true 2-way integration with Jira provides teams with more testing time. There may never be enough testing time, but Zephyr and Jira are providing teams with close to 100 more hours of testing time per ten person team. […]
Surveys, Event Registrations, and Expense Report Workflows in Confluence
This is a guest blog post submitted by Frevvo, showing how Confluence can be instrumented with forms and workflows. Confluence is a powerful tool that enables employees to collaborate and share knowledge on your intranet. But Confluence by itself does not support common tasks organizations perform, such as surveys, event registrations, vacation requests workflows, and […]
Virgil – Guiding your users to relevant resources [guest blog]
One way to guide customers to the right resources is by displaying relevant resources as they are creating support tickets in support.atlassian.com.
Webinar reminder: Zephyr & Jira for Test Management
Just a quick reminder that on January 18th we will host a webinar with Zephyr on using Jira for Test Management. Zephyr and its optimized, true 2-way integration with Jira provides teams with more testing time. There may never be enough testing time, but Zephyr and Jira are providing teams with close to 100 more […]
Plugin Profile: Extend and Configure Jira Admin with Minyaa Suite
This is a guest blog post submitted by Vincent Thoulé. Vincent started his journey with Jira by implementing CMMi in IT services for a European Bank. After 4 years of committed work on Kaamelot, in 2009 he accepted to join Pyxis Technologies in Montreal in order to continue the Jira adventure on a full-time basis. […]
Webinar: Scroll Office – Generate sophisticated Word documents out of Confluence
On January 20th we will host a webinar with K15t on Scroll Office which allows you to author in Confluence and style with Word. Do you use a wiki or Microsoft Word for your documentation? A wiki like Confluence is often the tool of choice for technical writers for collaborating on and authoring documents. Multiple […]
Jira Importers Plugin 1.5 adds Mantis & CSV support
Updated: Check out the Top 5 Reasons to GO Jira! There is little rest for the team working on the Jira Importers Plugin. Subsequent to enhancing the Bugzilla support in version 1.4, Pawel and Wojtek have helped get the plugin bundled with Jira 4.2.2. In the latest release of version 1.5, they have also added support […]
Marketing for Startups and Small Teams: Product Marketing
This is the second post in our blog series about marketing essentials for startups and engineering teams. Last week we talked about the customer funnel, a vital construct for understanding and measuring your customer acquisition process. This post focuses on product marketing, or how a team can clearly and effectively communicate a product’s purpose and […]
Atlassian Summit 2011 – Save the Date!
Mark your calendars and book your flights for Atlassian Summit 2011. This year we’ll be returning to the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, CA on June 6-8. Keep your eyes on our blogs or Twitter for the call-for-speakers and Early Bird registration which opens on January 26. Charlie and Community Award nominations will open shortly […]
Size Doesn’t Matter: 4 Small Improvements Coming in Confluence 3.5
With every Confluence release we try to squeeze in as many “small improvements” as possible. Confluence 3.5 is no different. While there are some BIG new features on the way – we’ll keep those secret for now – there are also some nice little ones that we’ll let out of the bag.
2010 State of Agile Development
The fifth annual State of Agile Development survey was recently released by Versionone. It was conducted by Analysis.Net Research, and gathered responses from over 4,500 participants in 91 countries. As one of the largest and longest-running agile development surveys, this serves as a pretty decent barometer for the community — but like any survey, the results […]
Announcing UPM 1.3, a.k.a. "OSGi is not a four-letter word."
One of the major perks of working on the Developer Relations team in San Francisco is that we sit right next to the Integration team, whose job — in a sense — is to test and push the limits of our plugin development platform, through the process of developing useful cross-product components. They are often […]
Problems with Plugin Dependencies? Try This!
As a newcomer to Atlassian, I spent my first few weeks on the company’s brand new Bootcamp program. Doubtless we’ll write more about Bootcamp soon, but to give a brief summary, new joiners get to attend technical classes given by other Atlassians, and work on improvements across a wide range of products and codebases. This […]
Marketing for Engineers and Small Teams
The Social Network, apart from being an entertaining movie, reminded me of those times we all spend hacking into the wee hours of the morning, trying to get that website off the ground, finishing one last feature before submitting to our exhaustion, changing the world with software. Software engineers, not unlike other professionals, are passionate […]