Cenqua and Jira
While visiting our Sydney office this week, I had some time to grab a coffee with with Pete Moore, one of the founders of Cenqua, and Bruce, his terrier (who spent his time charming everyone that walked past us in the café). We chatted about how Cenqua’s development team use Jira for tracking software issues. […]
Benefits of Wikis
The recommended Wiki (Confluence by Atlassian in this case), allows for Wikis within a Wiki (Spaces) so that multiple entities such as teams, departments or organizations can be served within one Wiki with collaboration amongst the entities still possible. Read the complete blog entry at Transforming Business Weblog: Benefits of Wikis. The full blog, in […]
Jira Issue Tracking Meets Tagging
From the AnyWare Development Consulting blog, a really interesting suggestion for grouping tasks in Jira by tagging that other Jira users may want to check out. Component field settings ARE tagging but with the wrong name. I’m going to set up “components” (in Jira parlance) for “Must have”, “Very desirable”, “Wishlist” as well as other […]
Atlassian Founders Share the Secrets of Success on Business Sunday
Atlassian founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar were recently featured on Business Sunday to discuss the company’s origins, today’s performance, and the future. Watch it now or read the transcript.
Using Jira to manage releases
This is a short excerpt from an Anywhere blog posting entitled Using Jira to Manage Releases: I’ve been using Jira issue tracker for some years now for software development. I’ve also helped to roll it out at several client sites, which has given me the opportunity to see the different ways of approaching the issues […]
SFWIN at Atlassian on July 25th
Atlassian is hosting the next SFWIN event in our San Francisco office, July 25th beginning at 6pm. SFWIN organises monthly Bay Area events for the technology community to get together for drinks and conversation. If you’re in the area, please drop by to say hello. Learn more and register at the SFWIN website.
Corporate Wikis Reviewed
Troy Angrignon (Adventure Capitalist) reviewed a bunch of commercial wikis. The conclusion: “Atlassian’s Confluence is the best of them so far.” Pros: the overall design is clean, it has advanced management tools, good security, and simple attachments.Its email function has to pick mail up from a POP box which makes it a little bit less […]
The Enterprise Wiki
From Mike Radomski’s blog… My organization is embracing a product called Confluence from Atlassian. Confluence is an enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge…. If your organization has not embraced wikis, I would highly suggest taking a look at this type of technolgy for internal collaboration and documentation. […]
Dawn of Confluence at Relic Entertainment
Canada’s Relic Entertainment, the makers of Dawn of War and other real-time strategy and multiplayer games, recently installed Confluence for collaboration. Relic’s Frank Roberts was telling Jim in the San Francisco customer advocate group, “We recently switched to Confluence [from another wiki whose name shall be withheld 🙂 ] to achieve the same result but […]
Jira’s Second Life at Linden Lab
Linden Lab called us a couple months ago to show us how they are using Jira. Now, many of our customers have customised our products in innovative and interesting ways, but rarely have we talked with a customer doing anything like this. Linden Lab has democratized just about every aspect of decision-making. Employees across functional […]
Wikis–a disruptive innovation
Cindy Gordon writes in the May issue of KMWorld on wikis: What is clear is organizations continue to spend millions of dollars on content management infrastructure solutions, rather than putting more power in the hands of their users to collaborate effectively together. The wiki paradigm is disruptive because it is a low-cost alternative that brings […]
Johns Hopkins and Jira
Staff at Johns Hopkins University, the first research university in the U.S., are long time fans of Jira. At JHU, Jira’s used to manage thousands of issues, tasks, and bugs across multiple projects, most recently for the deployment of a new student information system. “So I turned to my director and said, ‘I used a […]
Using Wikis for Academic Research
I had a chat (thanks Skype!) with Peter Higgs at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation at Queensland University of Technology about their use of Confluence for academic research and collaboration. It wasn’t too hard to track Peter down as he’s related to one of the developers here, Jeremy. Small world, […]
Dots and Dashes – Social Software Success
Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes were featured in the June issue of The Bulletin: In just four years, Atlassian has achieved what many Australian software companies have found impossible: create a global market. It was ranked as the fastest-growing Australian software company in 2005 and the third-fastest of any company in Australia. Read […]
Grad Student Needs Participants
This blog caught my eye: Survey: Wikis in Enterprises. If you’re a Confluence user and have a few minutes to help with Tim’s studies, head on over to his blog. I personally don’t know Tim or anything about his work (other than what he’s published about it), but it seems like a worthy-enough effort.
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