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Jira 3.12 (as seen through the eyes of Iteration Title Cards)
Jira team has one week iteration cycles. It means that that we form streams, each stream consists of a single person or a pair (pair programming). At the beginning of an iteration we do some planning. Each stream (support, bug fixing, feature development) gets work allocated. Work pieces are represented by task cards that we […]
Announcing the 2008 Atlassian User Groups
We’re proud to announce the 2008 Atlassian User Group lineup! Atlassian User Groups are designed to give you the opportunity to learn more about our software, discover interesting implementations and answer any burning questions you’ve been harboring. This year’s User Groups will span three continents and over half a dozen countries. 2008 Locations: May: San […]
Win tickets to No Fluff Just Stuff
Atlassian is proud to announce its partnership with “No Fluff Just Stuff”:http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com (NFJS), the premier technical Java/Agility event series. NFJS is truly _the conference_ for developers by developers. Its technical focus and intimate environment (max. 250 attendees per conference) fosters a high level of interaction between the speaker and attendees, making it one of the […]
Case Study: Dow Jones On Confluence
“It’s funny. One of the first things people say when I talk about the wiki is, _We can’t have something out there that just anybody can edit. Just think of what might happen._ And I say, _Yeah, just think—people might actually collaborate!_” Read what else Jamie Thingelstad shares about “Confluence”:http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence use in the new “Dow […]
Atlassian Wants to Sponsor Your User Group!
Atlassian loves user groups and wants to help make yours a raging success. Here’s what we can offer: * Pizza and drinks * Book of the Month * Nifty Atlassian Swag (w00t!) * And oh so much more! And why not invite us? If an Atlassian developer is in your area and you’d like for […]
APC’s 7 Strategies for Implementing a Successful Corporate Wiki
Industry Week reports on the results of a study on wikis in business by the Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council (APC). When considering use of wikis, CIOs should keep in mind that in reality, a large number of companies may already have employees using wikis for work purposes without the authority to do […]
Atlassian Wants to Sponsor Your User Group!
Atlassian loves user groups and wants to help make yours a raging success. **Here’s what we can offer:** * Pizza and drinks * Book of the Month * Nifty Atlassian “Swag “:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UGS/Atlassian+User+Group+Sponsorship (w00t!) * And oh so much more! And why not invite us? If an Atlassian developer is in your area and you’d like […]
Developing Jira Studio – Finding Common Ground
Plugins are arguably the killer feature for Atlassian products, as they allow you to tweak a theme or deploy full-blown applications within a familiar environment and infrastructure. The number of plugins available, especially for established products like Confluence and Jira, is huge and the amount of extension points available to plugins basically give you full […]
The New Guy on Exposing Yourself at Work
As I mentioned last time, everything we do here at Atlassian is on our internal Confluence Wiki, available for everyone at Atlassian to see and comment on. I learned this the very first day, when my boss asked me to put a short bio up on my Profile. “Sure, no problem. Once I’m done, how […]
Don’t panic, we are from Poland
Hi, I’m Janusz Gorycki, Manager for Atlassian’s newest office. We just started working for Atlassian on January 7th. We are from Gdansk, Poland and we are the staff of Atlassian’s European office, located here. There are currently eight of us – seven software developers and their manager–me. We joined Atlassian as a team, having moved […]
Developer Jira is happy and healthy again
Sorry for the long service interruption, but http://developer.atlassian.com/jira has been up and stable for the last few days, so feel free to go back about your business. We moved some services to new hardware to alleviate some of the load, ad well as changed some configuration parameters, both of which have resulted in a much […]
Agile Project Management with Jira
A few months ago I blogged about “Jira”:http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira becoming a “platform for other software tools”:http://atlassian.reaktivdev.com/news/2007/10/jira_plugins_an.html. I had mentioned several applications that had been built on top of Jira (or maybe you’d prefer to draw a diagram showing them side by side… no matter!). One that I hadn’t mentioned was from “VersionOne”:http://www.versionone.com/, “the leading project planning […]
The New Guy on Climbing the Learning Curve
The bottom of the learning curve is a pretty awful place to be. It feels like everything you know is wrong, like everyone else knows some secret that you haven’t figured out yet. It made the start of my second week at Atlassian a lot less fun than the end of the first one. I […]
Confluence connects with Lotus Connections
At “Lotusphere”:http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2008/ today, “IBM announced”:http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2008/01/lotusphere-20-2.html an integration they developed to connect “Atlassian Confluence with Lotus Connections”:http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf. Lotus Connections is a platform for social computing that includes blogs, workflow, and now the world’s “most popular enterprise wiki”:http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence. We were told that the solution would first be rolled out internally before being made available to customers. “IBM […]
Sharpening Our Functional Test Axe
In the book Dreaming in Code , the author mentions Axe Sharpening, specifically how development teams can spend too much time sharpening their axe and not enough time cutting down trees. “Give a person six hours to cut down a tree, the saying goes, and she will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. […]