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Missed the webinar “Making the Switch to Jira Studio” featuring Boomi and WebFilings? Recording and slides are now available.
If you missed the recent Jira Studio webinar featuring Atlassian customers Webfilings and Boomi (congratulations on their recent acquisition by Dell!), the recording and slides are now available. During the webinar, team members from each of these software companies discuss why they chose to switch from on-premises to hosted software development tools with Jira Studio. […]
Atlassian Expands European Operations, Begins European-wide Recruitement Drive
Uses €42M Accel Partners Investment to Fund European Recruitment Drive and Improve “Local” Approach Abroad Atlassian today announced a major European drive to recruit multiple in-country ‘Ambassadors‘ throughout Europe. Additionally, Atlassian introduced a new crowdsourced translations platform – translations.atlassian.com – and localised versions of their website. Atlassian, an Australian-based software company with more than 20,000 […]
Technical Writing in a Wiki – Content Re-use and Structure
Craft it with care. Review it with your Subject Matter Experts. Keep it in a central location and regularly maintain and update it. Re-use it as required. This is the third of a series of posts from Atlassian’s Technical Writing Team focusing on using a wiki for technical writing. The second post in this series […]
Introducing The Bamboo Sauce Plugin
This is a guest blog post submitted by Jonathan Doklovic. Jonathan is Founder and CEO of Systems Bliss Inc., an Atlassian Partner. Jonathan has been using Atlassian tools and writing plugins for them for over 5 years and has over 25 years of development experience. His goal is to blissfully skip through a field filled […]
The Ultimate Wallboard Contest: 1 week down, 3 to go
Last week we launched The Ultimate Wallboard Contest, Atlassian’s search to find the best information radiators and wallboards. The goal was to see how your team displays critical team information, what kind of information you tracked and why its important to you. Boy, did the community answer our call. As of today, we’ve got 27 […]
Can Atlassian develop the world’s best Team Leads?
How do you scale a software engineering department without introducing top-heavy bureaucracies or lowering the talent quality bar? Read on to find out how we’re going about it, and whether it’s working.
(Case Study) Distributed Development at John Muir Health with Jira Studio
Industry: Health care provider Headquarters: Walnut Creek, CA Employees: Approximately 5,000 employees, with several hundred in IT. Atlassian tools used:Jira Studio with e-Business team. Other teams at John Muir Health use on-premises Atlassian tools. John Muir Health is an award-winning health care provider that runs a network of hospitals and clinics in Northern California. Dustin […]
Brand and Customise Your Enterprise Wiki with Zen Foundation
This is a guest post by Darryl Duke of Stepstone Technologies, an Atlassian Partner that creates a Confluence plugin called Zen Foundation that will completely transform the way your users view and interact with your enterprise wiki. Solving the problem of adoption Adoption, it’s perhaps the biggest challenge organizations face when rolling out a new […]
Technical Writing in a Wiki: From draft to published document
This is the second in a series of posts from Atlassian’s Technical Writing Team focusing on using a wiki for technical writing. Last week, Andrew Lui talked about why wikis are ideal for collaborative documentation development. In this post, I’ll be talking about how you can use a wiki to publish documentation, from authoring content through to publishing.
Summit 2010 Highlights – DVCS in the Enterprise
Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCSs) such as Git and Mercurial have gotten a lot of hype in recent times, but centralized VCS (Subversion, CVS, etc.) are still far more commonly used. In this presentation at Atlassian Summit 2010, Justen Stepka presented an overview of DVCS, as well as the story of his team’s migration from using Subversion to Mercurial.
Bugbox puts Jira in your pocket
This guest post was written by Bugbox. Bugbox LLC specializes in creating mobile apps for smartphones, including iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. Their latest app is Bugbox for Jira which puts Jira on your smartphone. We love Jira, it’s an indispensable part of our software development, but we didn’t have a good way to access Jira while […]
Watch a live demo of the new features in Confluence 3.4
It’s been a couple of weeks since we released Confluence 3.4, a new version of our enterprise wiki packed full of new features to provide faster, richer content creation for everyone. Don’t worry if you missed out on last week’s webinar demonstration of the new features, we recorded everything for you!
See the new keyboard shortcuts, user macro improvements and new Universal Plugin Management by watching a recording of the live demo below (demo starts at 07:25).
Do you have the Ultimate Wallboard?
We’re on the lookout for the most impressive information radiator. If you have a wallboard, status board, story wall or any other form of extreme feedback, we want to see it!
You could win a 55″ HDTV and other great prizes, just by telling us what’s on
your wallboard and why. See contest details below.
(Case Study) – Taming the Jira 4.2 bug dragon!
The Jira team uses a number of wallboards and information radiators to keep the entire team up to date about the current status of the project. We’ve been using them for quite some time however this blog is all about how we used them to get Jira 4.2 out the door. Early on during the […]