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4 features you asked for from Jira Software

Since our early days, we’ve encouraged customers to share feedback and suggestions for improving Jira Software through our feature request site.The Jira Software team recently closed out some of the highest voted requests as part of Jira Software Server 7.2, including a few that you’ve been patiently waiting on for some time. Thanks for helping us get […]

How Jira Core puts the groove in email marketing processes

Email has stood the test of time. While new technologies pop up every day, 91% of consumers check their email at least once a day and report it as their preferred channel for marketing messages. This is great news for an email marketer, who is always thinking about how to reach customers through email campaigns. But, […]

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Atlassian Summit 2016: tips for getting the most out of Summit

Whether this will be your first Atlassian Summit or your 8th, we hope you’re getting as pumped up as we are for Atlassian Summit 2016 – our biggest event yet. From attending awesome sessions to networking with fellow Atlassian users, to Summit Bash, your days will be jam-packed with activities and we want you to make […]

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Group video chat and screen sharing: coming to a Hipchat near you

Remember the last time a discussion really got going in Hipchat? Someone probably wrote, “I bet we could hash this out in 5 minutes if we talked face-to-face.” So you either scheduled a meeting or you flipped over to Skype, Google Hangouts, or your company’s conference-bridge-of-choice. Invariably, the conversation lost momentum. The new Hipchat video platform […]

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4 ways prototyping untangles your product requirements

As a writer with over 10 years of experience in product management, Germaine loves to share resources that help agile PMs. Check out her recent ebook Prototyping for Product Managers. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype must be worth a hundred thousand pages of a requirements document. While a requirements […]

How Jira Core makes me a less grumpy social media marketer

As a Content Marketing Manager, I deal with words all day long. I’m always writing, editing, reading, or posting on social media in the name of Atlassian’s Jira products including Jira Coreand Jira Service Desk. When it comes to social media, the details are key. Every word, every character, and every image counts toward building […]

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What teaching kids to code taught me

“Good morning, Mr. Kelley!” Over the past year, I’ve enjoyed hearing this cheerful greeting from my students at the start of every class. No, I’m not a teacher; I’m a Senior Java Developer at Atlassian. But this year, I’ve been able to teach kids computer science education in a local Sydney school. Like many places, […]

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The me in team: personal productivity tips to boost your team game

You’ve heard a coach say: There ain’t no “I” in team! And that’s true enough. But, there is a “me.” (You take the m from the end and the e from the second position… oh, never mind.) At Atlassian, we believe good teams are made up of individuals with distinct strengths that collectively drive teamwork […]

Getting more out of your Atlassian products

  These days, many of us rely on teaching ourselves new skills. Whether it’s a Google search, YouTube videos, or word-of-mouth, we’re accustomed to figuring it out as we go. A lot of times, this works just fine, like if you’re learning how to change the battery on your car or how to perfectly poach an […]

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How to build a kick-ass agile team

Despite sharing common values, there is no formula for the perfect agile team. Some implement scrum while others use kanban. Agile purists prefer co-located teams, but business realities sometimes necessitate distributing an agile team across geographies. Most agile teams possess all the required skills, but sometimes it’s necessary to call on specialists for specific work. So how do you know whether your team is on the path to greatness? Read on.

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How to scale Jira Software to 10,000+ users

What do you do when your Jira Software instance grows from 10 to 10,000+ users? This was what Brian Wallace and Mike Damman, Vice President and Knowledge Architect at Cerner, the leading U.S. supplier of healthcare information technology, needed to answer in order to meet the needs of their growing teams. How do you guarantee reliability […]

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The importance of empathy in coding interviews

A loss of color to the face. Sweaty palms and clammy handshakes. Cracking voices and fumbled words. Yes, I am describing one of the most-feared elements of any job search: the interview. At Atlassian, we’re all about teams and how they work together to create great things. And in this pursuit, it’s essential that we […]

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Portfolio for Jira meets kanban

No matter what agile framework your team uses, Portfolio for Jira can forecast a realistic roadmap for your product or project. In our blogs about Portfolio for Jira, we’ve focused heavily on Scrum methodology, but lately we’ve been getting more questions about how kanban can be planned in Portfolio for Jira. So lets see how […]

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Bitbucket Data Center is now available for growing teams

Whether you’re burning the midnight oil at a startup or starting a new project within a larger organization, we want to be part of your Git journey. And in order to do that, we need to be there from the start. So Bitbucket Data Center now offers source code collaboration for professional teams, across any […]