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Atlassian’s 20% Time: A Year in Review
One year ago, Atlassian announced it’s 20% Time Experiment. Originally a 6-month trial, we’ve actually let it go for 12 months before reviewing results and determining its fate. In line with Atlassian’s innate openness, I’m happy to share our findings. Atlassian’s 20% Results At-a-glance 1 Year 48 Projects* (25 In Progress, 16 Incorporated into products**, […]
Quit Your Job and Build a Plugin
Peldi has a great blog post about the idea for Balsamiq came to him and why he made it into an Atlassian plugin.
Reminder: AtlasCamp is three weeks away
Just a quick post to remind everyone that AtlasCamp, our first-ever developer camp, is approaching and you need to book your reservation soon. We’re down to the last few spots, so don’t wait too long. Also, feel free to join the discussion on the AtlasCamp page about the topics that we’ll cover. There have been […]
Atlassian’s 20% Time now out of Beta
In my previous blog about 20% Time, I gave a summary of Atlassian’s “20% Experiment” but left readers hanging as to the future of 20% Time at Atlassian. Well, I’m glad to end that suspense now and officially announce that Atlassian is continuing with 20% Time, rather than keeping it under the label of being […]
Talk nerdy with Atlassian – at our October User Groups
This October I’ll be travelling around the world for quite a few Atlassian events. We’ll be holding Atlassian User Groups in Toronto, New York, Berlin and Munich within just 4 weeks throughout the month. Why do I dev-blog this, you ask? Well, if you are a plugin developer (or intend to) but your CFO just […]
The SF Mission Party – big success!
I hope those of you located in the Bay Area were able to come party with us last month at our San Francisco Office House Warming. The theme of our party was “The Mission,” in honor our eclectic neighborhood. It featured local flavor such as Mexican food, margaritas, and a Mariachi band. We added some […]
Bike friendly business
The Atlassian Sydney office isn’t the only office where you’ll find a lot of bicyclists. In San Francisco, Atlassian recently won an Honorable Mention as a bike-friendly business! Atlassian was recognized for a number of reasons: On average 20% of the employees in SF bike to work; It’s not only a bicycle-friendly ride (the company […]
Jira Studio upgraded with customisable tabs, Jira 3.13
The October release of Jira Studio has been rolled out to all customers, and includes a host of new features and application upgrades. First off, the projects toolbar in Studio has been overhauled in this release. We updated it with an eye towards simplification and hierarchy, but also incorporated some neat new features, like global […]
Dash to the webinar near you
Dash is the new kid on the block, and they’re shaking things up in the world of GPS navigation with an innovative new product, Dash Express. Behind the scenes, Dash developers use Jira, Fisheye, Crucible, and Confluence to make great software. Listen live as Patrick Coleman, Director of Platform SW, walks us through their equally […]
20% projects in the wild — Raphaël
As you may recall, in March this year, Atlassian publically announced the commencement of the 20% Time Experiment. Since then, we have been keeping you up to date how it works, and what people have been doing. Dmitry Baranovskiy, a Developer on the Confluence team, has been spending his 20% time on a JavaScript library […]
Behind the scenes of the Jira Desktop Client
The Jira Desktop Client offers Jira users an alternative, asynchronous method for working with your issues. The connector is a good example of Jira’s SOAP and RPC services in action. On October 29th, the Jira Desktop Client’s creator, Igor Sereda, will demonstrate the connector and discuss the ins and outs of developing an application that […]
Atlassians go Conservation Volunteering
On Friday, fifteen Atlassians went out to Long Reef to help with an ongoing bush regeneration project. Our team leaders were Matt and Emma from Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA). We were there under the auspices of the Atlassian Foundation, a company initiative driven by the interest of all Atlassians in improving our society and environment. Each Atlassian can take up to five days “Foundation leave” per year to devote to their pet project. So we went conservation volunteering.
Plugins + mashup = brainstorm
Is it possible create a mashup with Confluence that mimics a combination of Dell’s IdeaStorm with Digg? That’s exactly what netoCiety, a partner of Atlassian’s, did with their netoVation solution. Stephen Danelutti at netoCiety emailed me several weeks ago to tell us about their solution, the so-called Networked Innovation Platform. Using a combination of Confluence’s […]
Come join us in Europe!
We are looking for passionate people to make up the core of the new Amsterdam office! Let me tell you something we have not mentioned yet… This is going to be the coolest Atlassian home to work for and here is why: What happened so far: A month ago Atlassian officially became a Besloten Vennootschap […]
New Fisheye and Crucible video
In case you missed our “What’s New in Fisheye 1.6 and Crucible 1.6” webinar this week, you can now watch it on-demand. For more Atlassian video, tune your browser dial to AtlassianTV and/or subscribe to this blog.