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Headshift on Wikis for Law Firms
Penny Edwards over at Headshift recently blogged about the social intranet they deployed to over 5,000 employees at Freshfields. Freshfields is a large, international law firm providing business law advice throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US. The platform they chose? Confluence. According to Penny, “The firm had an old, tired intranet, where […]
Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 5 – {run}
This post is fifth in a series on using Confluence as a Business Intelligence tool. We’ve covered a lot of ground up to this point, from accessing your data to charting it to making it run like a greased weasel. But Confluence isn’t just for making pretty webpages out of your data. It can also […]
New Atlassian Product Blogs: Subscribe now
A Whole New Purpose Today, Atlassian is announcing new product blogs, the Jira Blog, the Confluence Blog and the Dev Tools Blog. The idea is to provide a steady and focused drip feed of product updates, power user tips and usage examples to help passionate product users be increasingly more successful with these tools. Three […]
Jira 4.0 Social in San Francisco
On Tuesday October 20th we invite San Francisco-based customers to join us in the SF office as we celebrate the release Jira 4.0! This has been months of overtime, missed happy hours, and blood, sweat and tears (well, at least sweat ;-)). And now we’d like to show off our labor of love! Atlassian co-founders […]
Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 4 – Optimizing
This post is fourth in a series on using Confluence as a Business Intelligence tool. Now that you’re pulling your data onto Confluence pages and making it into eye-popping charts, your reports might be so popular that they’re putting a strain on your database. A flashy executive dashboard that shows daily stats from every division […]
Technical Writing In Agile Software Development – Part 3
The Atlassian Technical Writers aren’t clairvoyants, neither can we use The Force, but those would be really handy abilities in the documentation profession.
Balsamiq Mockups for Confluence – now with interLinking
For anyone who’s ever had to mockup a web page, Balsamiq is an amazing Confluence plugin that lets product managers, developers, web masters and business folks all collaborate on the UI right inside a wiki page. Just this week they added a major feature to their Confluence plugin that lets you link together between mockups […]
Atlassian Values – Once upon a time…
You don’t set core values, you discover core values. – Jim Collins I often talk about Atlassian’s values to people outside the company, and the most frequent question asked is “are they real values that people live, or are they just words?” This is closely followed by “how do you get people to follow them?”, […]
Trade-In Your Clunky Bug Tracker for a Free Version of Jira 4
Jira is set to rock the bug tracking, agile, ALM and project management world with a release so big that we call it four-point-OH. We’re spending thousands of development hours to turn Jira 4.0 into our biggest product release ever, and we really want the non-Jira users, the unconverted and non-believers out there, to make […]
Clover 2.6 is available – $300 Desktop Edition, Tree maps and more!
Atlassian is excited to announce the launch of Clover 2.6, the latest release of Atlassian’s award-winning tool for Java code coverage and test optimisation. With performance improvements, new coverage graphs and a bargain-priced Desktop Edition, the industry’s best code coverage tool for Java has gotten even better! Clover Desktop Edition Available for Only $300 2.6 […]
Clover 2.6 is available – Desktop Edition, Tree maps, performance improvements and more!
Atlassian is excited to announce the launch of Clover 2.6, the latest release of Atlassian’s award-winning tool for Java code coverage and test optimisation. With performance improvements, new coverage graphs and a bargain-priced Desktop Edition, the industry’s best code coverage tool for Java has gotten even better! Clover Desktop Edition Available for Only $300 2.6 […]
Checking in on red helps keep the build green
For the last 3-4 weeks the Jira team has been following a development process where we are allowed to check in…when the build is broken. Heresy…lunacy…insanity… Well it turns out that it helps keep the build green. And here is why…build latency. I am defining build latency as the time from checking-in a change, finding […]
Technical Writing In Agile Software Development – Part 2
Like surviving in a tropical jungle, to an extent you must give yourself over to the environment, rather than trying to fight it.
Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 3 – Charts and Formatting
This post is third in a series on using Confluence as a Business Intelligence tool. Nothing compares to a chart for quickly conveying rich, multivariate comparative data. Confluence comes with several types of charts, each of which has many formatting options that let you present your data in cool and powerful ways. Out of the […]
AtlasCamp 2009
Atlassian is gearing up for this year’s AtlasCamp — our second annual developer camp. Last year’s camp was an amazing, inspirational time, and this year’s event will be even better: We’re extending AtlasCamp 1/2 a day longer than last year, to fit in even more great content. We’re building in lots more free time to […]