A Sneak Peek at Jira 3.7
If you’re an admin or project lead at a large organisation, you can uncross those fingers — project roles have made their way into Jira 3.7! This means developers, testers, admins, and other various users can be grouped together according to their role. Project leads even get to edit their own ‘roles’ in the Jira […]
New Case Study Spotlights Confluence as an Extranet
Confluence as an interactive extranet?! Now we have a case study focused on it thanks to Red Ant, a website design and development firm. In this new case study see how Red Ant uses our wiki as an extranet that visually communicates complex design ideas to their clients. Here’s an excerpt: Do your clients know […]
Order Page Optimisations
Yesterday I came across a discussion spotlighting Atlassian’s pricing and order forms. Mike spoke about transparency and pricing on Robert Scoble’s ScobleShow CEO Talk and that got people chatting. At Atlassian, we don’t have a ‘sales’ team. The most efficient way to order our products is online. When you order, instead of checking a box […]
Atlassian on ScobleShow CEO Talk — Watch
Mike Cannon-Brookes and Jonathan Nolen recently visited Robert Scoble at his PodTech offices in Menlo Park. This is part one of two (part two is TBA) in which Mike and Jonathan discuss wikis, Confluence and Atlassian with Robert for his new podcast video series, ScobleShow CEO Talk. Watch the video here.
Jira on Display
Our feature tour for Jira had not been up to par for a long time. But, happily, we’re able to announce that the revised Jira Feature Tour is live and ready for browsing. This updated tour — with over a dozen sections and many times that number of feature descriptions in each section — should […]
Traditional Website or Wiki Web-Publishing?
First things first, click here. If you’re not too familiar with wikis, you’d probably assume you just viewed a typical ol’ website. If you are familiar with wikis, you might have an inkling that this is one. The truth is that this website is, indeed, a wonderful example of Confluence (our wiki) re-skinned.
Blog on the Free Confluence Personal Wiki
“Confluence is a super-wiki application that uses a database backend. Instructions are provided to setup Confluence with various open-source and commercial databases. It talked to my PostgreSQL server with no problem.” Thanks Tom McQueeny for plugging the free personal license of Confluence. Glad you blogged candidly about our wiki. We always interested in hearing what […]
Jira 3.6.5 Released
Jira 3.6.5 has just been released. Check out the bug fixes and improvements that make this application more efficient than before. If you have a current Jira maintenance license, you can download this version here.
The Blog and Wiki Alternative
“Two alternative software categories that should be examined as possible replacements for the desktop word processor and, to some extent, to the document/content management systems in use within Life Sciences are Blogs and Wikis.” This a good piece on Office 2.0 and wikis, thanks to the The Laszlo Letter.
Thanks Wiki Woman
“If your organization has not embraced wikis, I would highly suggest taking a look at this type of technology for internal collaboration and documentation.” Wiki Woman, thanks for your vote of confidence in our wiki. It’s cool you’re using our free personal wiki version for home “stuff.” Also very cool that your company is “embracing” […]
Jira 3.6.4 Released
Jira 3.6.4 was released on August 22 and offers over 20 bug fixes and improvements. Check out the 3.6.4 release notes for details. If you’re currently a Jira customer with active maintenance, you can download this latest version today. Thanks everyone for submitting your feature requests and bugs, and also for voting on them. A […]
Atlassian User Group to Meet in September
Mark your calendars for a new Atlassian User Group meeting! Meet our customers, developers, and people interested in Jira and/or Confluence. Also learn how Jira and Confluence can work in an Agile environment. Get an overview of Atlassian development, our Developer Network, and see demos of some new products. Here are the essentials: When: Tuesday, […]
Jira, the New Required Skill!
A mate of ours first brought it to our attention — Jira, our issue tracker, is the new requested “be familiar with” or “have expertise with” program. He forwarded along a job posting seeking candidates with Jira experience. Being intrigued, I Googled the world of job postings myself. Among the required skills set of Java, […]
Wikis, Access Control, Calendars
In the spirit of being transparent, here’s a library managers blog with a good discussion about Confluence, other wikis, and pricing… Yes, [Confluence is] not free, but we’ve found that it’s well worth the price and support is extremely good. They use their Issue tracking system to track bugs, enhancements, support requests, and they monitor […]
Atlassian Founders Both Named Eastern Region Young Entrepreneur Of The Year
Atlassian founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar have received top honours at the Ernst & Young Eastern Region Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards.
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