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How to get a speaking slot at Atlassian Summit
The countdown to Atlassian Summit has started again. Once again this year, we’re encouraging everyone to submit a speaking abstract for Summit. It’s a great opportunity to improve your speaking skills, present your ideas to a large audience, and get a chance to talk with hundreds of like-minded people at the event. Applying to be […]
Boost Your Build Automation with Artifact Sharing in Bamboo
If you’ve been following the recent posts about using Bamboo to set up a continuous delivery pipeline, you have probably noticed us talking about build artifacts. These are the products of the build itself: JARs, WARs, code coverage reports, test results, javadocs, rdocs… the list goes on n’ on. In this post, we’ll walk […]
It Takes a Village to Launch a Product
In the early days of a software startup, engineers do all the work to bring a product to market. But as a company grows, so too do the number of people who share in the product launch activities. Where Atlassian provides products and tools to help teams collaborate and manage tasks, Atlassian Summit provides the direction. And this […]
Continuous Delivery One Byte at a Time (or, “How to Eat an Elephant”): part 2
In part 1 of this mini-series, I introduced the concept of using manual Stages in Bamboo to set up a Plan that evolves as more and more of your build, test, and deploy processes become automated. When putting it into practice, there are some nuances to keep in mind, and “gotchas” to avoid. In […]
Continuous Deploy One Byte at a Time (or, “How to Eat an Elephant”): part 1
We’ve been talking about continuous deployment here on the Atlassian Dev Tools blog. Many of you are already sold on the idea, and some of you are putting it into practice already. But others may be reading these posts thinking “Continuous deployment sounds wonderful, but my hurdles are so many and so high, I wouldn’t even know […]
The Kaizen Project – Continuous improvement for your Agile team
is a new source of information to assist Agile teams in continually improving their practices and processes. Kaizen is the Japanese word for ‘improvement’ and The Kaizen Project shares best practice stories from around the globe. Topics from innovation to continuous deployment are covered, along with everything in between. Teams at Atlassian are always looking for, […]
Continuous Delivery with Bamboo Stages
Bamboo’s biggest strength lies in its ability to give developers control over their entire workflow – all the way from testing to production. With Bamboo, those difficult tasks, such as releasing or deploying software, are easy to automate using a practice called Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery Continuous Delivery is the process whereby all the steps from code […]
(Case Study) mgm technology partners uses Jira to connect development projects directly to customers
About mgm technology partners mgm is a medium sized software solution company that defines its success by its contribution to the success of its clients’ businesses. Founded in 1994, mgm is based in Munich, with about 300 employees throughout Europe. Alexander Weiss has been with the company since its migration from Bugzilla to Jira in […]
Agile Software Application Development Survey 2011
Forrester is currently conducting a study on the adoption of Agile software development practices. This study will explore how organisations measure the value of software delivered. I encourage you to participate and share your impressions of the current state of agile development. With a growing trend towards DevOps and Kanban this is going to an interesting […]
GreenHopper 5.8 sneak peek – managing Atlassian projects with the Rapid Board
With pending GreenHopper 5.8 release of the Rapid Board out of labs, Atlassian teams have been dogfooding like crazy and we’ve found several teams using the new board in unique ways. In this sneak peek we’ll take a look at a few examples highlighting the amazing flexibility of GreenHopper. Getting a project off the ground Atlassians love geeky project […]
(Guest post) Agile ALM task-based development
This is a guest blog post by Michael Hüttermann, a software developer and coach on Java/JEE, SCM/ALM, SDLC-Tooling and agile software development. He has recently authored a new book, Agile ALM, that provides an overview of task-based development, continuous integration, and using Scrum as an agile approach, and which uses the Atlassian toolset as an […]
What is YOW!? An interview with Dave Thomas
Atlassian is a sponsor of this year’s YOW! events in Melbourne and Brisbane. For weeks we’ve wondered Why is it called that and we finally got the gumption to ask. Here’s an interview with Dave Thomas, one of the founders of YOW (and also a judge of our Ultimate Wallboards Competition), about the event and […]
Oz news: May 2010 events at Atlassian HQ
DevOps Downunder When: Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of May Where: Atlassian HQ, 173-185 Sussex St Who: “Devops” is a movement of like-minded sysadmins and developers interested in bridging the artificial gap between our camps. It’s impossible for sysadmins to do their job without reading or writing code, and developers need intimate systems knowledge to […]