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Jira Service Desk is now on Twitter, and we’re giving out t-shirts!
Jira Service Desk is now on Twitter Attention IT service management geeks: we’re going social! Let’s talk SLAs and swap tips on how to create a legendary service desk. From now on, @JiraServiceDesk will be the home for all IT service management content coming from Atlassian, while @Jira will remain the handle for all things agile and […]
Webinar recap: building a great agile team
If you tuned into the “Building a great agile team” webinar, then you participated in a first for the Jira team: We hosted three webinars in three different time zones to try and reach as many of our customers as possible. Between the three webinars, there were 316 questions asked by audience members. Our host […]
Atlassian Pop-Up – we’re bringing Australia’s best place to work, to you!
In true Atlassian style, we’ll be hosting Pop-Up events around Australia to bring our people, culture, and office directly to you. We’re looking for the best and brightest talent in our own backyard to join our team and help unleash the potential in every team through the power of software. With more than 200 job opportunities available, we’re […]
Webinar: Practical Advice for Agile Product Management
A few months ago we held a webinar with two of Atlassian’s rockstar product managers on doing agile product management the right way. After seeing how helpful and popular it was, we’re doing it again! Save the date: November 12, 2014 10:00 AM PST We’re bringing back the dynamic duo of Sherif Mansour and John Masson […]
Fisheye/Crucible 3.6: branch reviews, actions dialog
Today we are proud to announce the release of Fisheye and Crucible 3.6. In this release we’ve made creating a review from a branch in your SCM much, much simpler and streamlined. We’ve also continued improvements to the performance and enhanced the overall experience with Fisheye and Crucible by adding faster keyboard navigation with the […]
Organic code reviews for a billion-dollar order system
Let’s get the punch-line out of the way up-front: “Without being asked”. In a move that genuinely surprised me, the team behind the Atlassian ordering system adopted peer code reviews in a purely organic manner. I’ve been thinking about why this is… But don’t developers hate code reviews? Code reviews have a long and chequered history in software development. […]
Important support policy change
To better serve our customers and partners, Atlassian has modified our security policy for Jira, Confluence, and Stash. Atlassian Cloud customers are not affected by any of the changes described in this email as Cloud customers are always updated to the latest fixes and versions. New policy for security fixes Under the new security policy, when […]
Stash 3.4: More signal, less noise
Pull requests are an easy way for teammates to request your feedback on their code. But, as your projects are successful and your team grows, the number of pull requests coming your way can get overwhelming. With Stash 3.4, we’ve made it easier for you to manage your pull request load and reduce the noise. Now, […]
Sharing knowledge is easy with Confluence Questions 1.1
Forums and email distribution lists were great tools for communication in the 90s, but neither is as effective as a question and answer platform for sharing knowledge with your team or company. Starting discussions was easy, but finding answers in long winded forum threads or buried in email proved tiresome. The latest update to Confluence Questions combines […]
Git workflows webinar now available
In case you missed last Thursday’s “Git workflows for SaaS teams” webinar, we just published the recording. Despite the title, the content is about 10% SaaS / 90% Git best practice, so you should get something out of it (regardless of what type of software you make)–especially if you’re: currently using Git, but feel like […]
Watch the Jira Keynote from Summit 2014
2014 has been an exciting year for software teams here at Atlassian. During the Jira keynote at Atlassian Summit 2014, we highlighted all of the changes and improvements (both past and present) that our teams are most excited about. In case you missed it, here is a recap of those highlights from what was our biggest […]
SSL and POODLE
Another day, another SSL vulnerability. Following the announcement of the POODLE vulnerability, we have removed SSL V3 support from all of our Cloud platforms. Our testing shows this should not affect any of our users, and we encourage everyone to use up to date browsers and clients. If you find a problem, please contact us at support.atlassian.com.
Culture, quarantine, and bringing down Bamboo: my secondment on Confluence build engineering
There’s this idea floating around: an idea that builds are the devil. That they’re unreliable, tedious and confusing. I won’t try to refute this… but my secondment has taught me that builds are so much more! I began at Atlassian as a developer on the Confluence development team where my work primarily involved delivering features […]
Webinar recap: ‘Intro to Jira Portfolio’
Jira Portfolio is available today for Jira Server. Coming to Cloud in early 2015. Full details below. Last week, Martin Suntinger, Product Manager for Jira Portfolio, hosted an introductory webinar on Jira Portfolio. Attendees stole the show and asked 638 questions (638!). Whether or not he realized what he was signing up for, at the […]
2 days, 200 customers, and conclusive results: the new user testing
At Atlassian, we’re always trying to increase the ways we can get meaningful customer feedback. We’re constantly trying new methods to understand our customers, and learning what we can do better. At Summit, our annual user conference in September, we reached out to customers in a new way: the Test Lab. User testing, Summit-style Summit brought over 2100 […]