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Beyond the wallboard – information radiators for extreme feedback
As evidenced by many of the entries in the Ultimate Wallboard contest, teams devise countless clever ways to provide feedback. In addition to displaying important metrics and current status, a key aspect of information radiators is nofitying members of events that require immediate action. This concept is also known as extreme feedback. For that reason, […]
ShipIt Day in the wild
Dan Pink’s book, Drive, is about motivation. The book includes a profile about Atlassian and our ShipIt Days and 20% time. Since the book was released, it seems that dozens of companies have been motivated to start ShipIt Days of their own, which we think is awesome. If you haven’t heard of Dan Pink or […]
What marriage has to do with releasing software
Someone recently emailed me this joke: “A little girl and a little boy were at daycare: The girl approached the boy and said, “Hey Johnny, wanna play house?” He said, “Sure! What do you want me to do?” The girl replied, “I want you to communicate.” He said to her, “That word is too big. […]
Atlassian’s Big Performance Review Experiment – Part II
Our journey to perfecting the often dreaded biannual performance review process is underway. In my previous post, I mentioned that we’ll keep you informed. In this blog is an overview of what we’ve done so far, and some of the challenges we’ve encountered.
Just 2 weeks left to win the Ultimate Wallboard contest
We’re halfway there.. The Ultimate Wallboard contest is gaining steam with over 35 entires so far including some very impressive wallboard submissions already. If you have not checked out the contest site yet, I recommend you browse some of the “hot” entries. Time is running out – enter today! It’s not too late to submit […]
What is YOW!? An interview with Dave Thomas
Atlassian is a sponsor of this year’s YOW! events in Melbourne and Brisbane. For weeks we’ve wondered Why is it called that and we finally got the gumption to ask. Here’s an interview with Dave Thomas, one of the founders of YOW (and also a judge of our Ultimate Wallboards Competition), about the event and […]
Information Radiators: Extreme feedback with Bamboo
This little project was inspired by the Ultimate Wallboard contest, our effort to find your best status boards, information radiators and wallboards. If you have a wallboard, simple or sophisticated, we want to know about it! Check out the contest site to enter for a chance to win prizes. Hacking Bamboo with Arduino We wanted […]
Bamboo 2.7 has shipped! Improved build process, faster builds and DVCS support
A new build structure, parallel builds, wallboards and out-of-the-box Mercurial (Hg) support are just some of the new features in Bamboo 2.7. The focus of this release was to take Bamboo beyond continuous integration and improve the feedback loop. What’s new? Map your build process Bamboo allows you to define and map your complete build […]
Technical Writing in a Wiki – Documentation Release Management
This is the fourth in a series of posts from Atlassian’s Technical Writing Team focusing on using a wiki for technical writing. Last week, Sally Hawse wrote about time-saving ways to re-use content. In this post, I’ll be talking about how to manage the documentation release process using Confluence.
Jira 4.2 Deep Dive – the Jira experience
This post is the first in a series of “deep dives” into the latest version of Jira. Stay tuned to the Jira Blog for more details on Jira 4.2. Evolution of the Jira experience During it’s first seven years of Jira’s existence the interface and user experience remained largely unchanged. Although comforting for long-time users, […]
Jira 4.2 and GreenHopper 5.3 Webinar and Demo
A big thanks to all of our customers who joined us on November 2 in our webinar announcing Jira 4.2 and GreenHopper 5.3.
What’s new in Jira 4.2 and GreenHopper 5.3
These releases are all about making your interactions with Jira and GreenHopper quicker.
Improved keyboard shortcuts allow you to navigate with virtually no use of your mouse, and our new pop-up dialog menus let you perform issue operations without having to load a new page.
Click through to check out the recording of the webinar and see a live demo of the new features.Extending Your Wiki – Confluence User Macros
User macros have generally been one of Confluence’s best kept secrets, used by a few people within an organisation. Secondary users have remained on the outside looking in. All that’s changed with Confluence 3.4. Administrators now have access to an improved user macro creation form that allows administrators to easily insert macros into the Macro Browser. The secret is out.
In the new user macro form an entire section is devoted to the macros existence in the Macro Browser. Administrators now have the option to:
How does Atlassian count customers?
At a recent Business of Software conference, our CEO Scott Farquhar told “The Atlassian Story” (slides). After the presentation, he was constantly approached by people asking for more information about the unique way Atlassian does business. In line with Atlassian’s “Open Company, No Bullshit” value, we’ll be sharing some of this information in these blog […]
We’re still hiring (a lot)
It has been a busy few months at Atlassian and things are not slowing down! In August 2009, we launched ‘Atlassian 32‘ – a recruitment campaign dedicated to finding 32 awesome people to join our Sydney team. 6 months in, we had hired 24 people. To date, we have hired 69 people in Sydney alone […]
Hello Europe, we’re hiring
We’re hiring locals all across Europe! If you live in Europe, we’re hiring in a city near you. We’re on the hunt to hire in-country Atlassian Ambassadors throughout Europe. We’re looking for people who have a combination of engineering-savvy, marketing know-how, and a little pizzaz to represent Atlassian in their countries. Read the Ambassador job […]