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Webinar: zAgile Teamwork
Next Thursday will mark this month’s Plugin of the Month webinar with zAgile‘s CEO and Founder, Sanjiva Nath. Sanjiva will discuss zAgile Teamwork which enables your software engineering teams to maximize productivity and minimize time to delivery. zAgile Teamwork delivers easy, affordable agile requirements and test case management right inside Confluence, and it integrates those […]
Using Jira for Product Management
Gathering customer input is a critical part of a Product Manager’s job. Atlassian PMs have an ace up their sleeve: http://jira.atlassian.com. We’ve opened our internal bug tracking system to the world, and use that to help understand our customer’s needs.
Jira and Zendesk: Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
Zendesk announced recently the Zendesk Updater Plugin for Jira, which is available at the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. The plugin links Jira issues to Zendesk tickets, and vice-versa.
Dogfooding and Frequent Internal Releases
Shipping a new feature-version of software every few months – instead of every few years – is great.
Agile Book Club Explained
Last year, when the engineering team leads & managers were thinking about ways to keep ourselves trained up without going old-school, we came up with the idea of an Agile Book Club. Sounds dull, but the results can be kinda cool.
Webinar: SharePoint Connector for Jira from CustomWare
Join us for a webinar with CustomWare! CustomWare are specialists at Enterprise deployments of Atlassian products and integrating them with enterprise technologies. Atlassian is fortunate to have CustomWare as a partner, and in recent events, an Atlassian Summit sponsor. In this webinar, we’ll take a closer look at the SharePoint Connector for Jira, which allows […]
The Twittersphere is Buzzing About Confluence 3.0
Confluence 3.0 is just over a month old now and, despite being captivated by the recent spate of celebrity deaths, thousands of people took the time away from CNN to download Confluence and share the luv Twitter-style. Here’s what people are tweeting about Confluence 3.0: Loving Confluence 3.0 to death… What a superb wiki solution! […]
Agile With A Remote Product Owner
We Are From Mars All agile methodologies stress the need of co-locating development with the customer’s representative – the Product Owner – or at least, having them in close proximity – both in time and in space. Our team seems to be the exact opposite of what “the agile way” requires – we are located […]
Make Your Code Agile: Refactoring
In this post I define and promote refactoring in productivity terms through controlling code complexity.
Fisheye 2 and Crucible 2 released!
I am very excited to announce the release of Fisheye 2 and Crucible 2. Both of these products have undergone a complete UI makeover with improved usability and productivity features focused on agile development. Fisheye and Crucible help you explore your source code and conduct code reviews that actually work.
(Cartoon) Follow me NOT
We created a special piece of collateral to hand out at our booth at last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference. Confluence 3.0 has some great, new social features, but rather than tell the story through a typical sales datasheet, we invented Bill and John, two cartoon characters trying to overcome a few coworker TMI issues — […]
Help us Integrate Confluence with Alfresco
At Atlassian we’re always looking for ways to expand the utility and functionality of our products. Sometimes this means we develop that code ourselves, and sometimes it means our community fills in the blanks. Such is the case with a new integration we’ve been working on with Alfresco, an open-source content management company, and Sourcesense, […]
Atlassian Fisheye 2 Released – Introducing a Social Source Code Interface
SAN FRANCISCO (BUSINESS WIRE) — Atlassian announced today the release of Fisheye 2 – a web interface for Subversion, Perforce, CVS and now Git – for collaboration, monitoring, search and analysis of your source code. Fisheye 2 adds social networking to source code insight with the ability to follow your favourite developers and code to […]
Atlassian Releases Crucible 2 – Introducing Iterative Code Review
SAN FRANCISCO (BUSINESS WIRE) — Atlassian has announced the release of Crucible 2, its lightweight peer code review tool, which introduces iterative code review along with a host of other usability improvements. Crucible is a code review tool that allows software development teams to establish an effective, distributed process for conducting one of the key […]
Hamcrest saves your soul – Now with less suffering!
In a previous post I described how Hamcrest can save your soul. After writing that, it was pointed out that you probably don’t need to suffer so much boiler-plate to save your soul. With that thought I set out to write the deeplyIsEqual matcher. The result is the DeepIsEqual Matcher. Using it is pretty easy. […]