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3 steps to taming technical debt with Jira

Learn how to reduce technical debt.

Get started with these Jira Portfolio demo videos

Are you using Jira Portfolio but unsure about where to start? Or maybe you’re not using Jira Portfolio but want to see how it works? Good news! We’ve created a series of Jira Portfolio demo videos to teach you the fundamentals so you can get your projects into Jira Portfolio in no time. There are 9 videos in total (whoa!) but each one is only 3 to 5 mins long (phew!). If you’re new to Jira Portfolio, we recommend watching them in order.

Announcing Google Apps integration for Confluence Cloud

Keeping up with numerous user directories for email, Confluence, and other software you use at work can quickly turn into a headache. Google Apps integration can make managing your user directory easier especially if you’re already using Google for email. Combine the ease of Google Apps for user management with Confluence where you create, organize, and discuss work with your team.

Bitbucket snippets for teams are here with a rich set of APIs

We’re thrilled to announce Snippets, available now in Bitbucket, where you can create and manage multi-file snippets of all kinds. We took a different approach than standard pastebin or gist and we built Snippets around teams. Snippets can be shared with your team, made private to you, or fully public; you control read and write privileges. If you create a snippet owned by your team, the snippet will stay with the team forever, even after you leave that team.

Working to be the change that you (the customer) seek

Who loves feedback? I can you tell that we do. We love it so much that we’ve created a team dedicated to seeking, synthesizing, and taking action on feedback from our customers. We call it the ‘Voice of the Customer’ team – i.e., the Voice of You. Recently, we’ve been sending emails and adding feedback prompts in our products with a single question: “On a scale from 1 to 10, how likely are you to recommend the product to a colleague?” And we use your answers to calculate our Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Five ways to make your life easier using Atlassian add-ons

The devil’s in the details, they say. And those little details can send you up a wall if they’re not working just right. Your real work is too important to let stuff like this get to you. The Atlassian Marketplace has a vast array of useful — and no-cost — add-ons to take care of the everyday hassles, so you can get back to work.

Managing teams effectively with Jira Service Desk

Learn about how email is the new ‘snail mail’ for service teams. This is the third post in our series on how your service team can build on top of email support with Jira Service Desk by getting the right information from the start, automatically categorizing tickets, and routing tickets to the right people. Read […]

Inside Atlassian: stand-ups for distributed and co-located teams

Stand-up is one of the fundamental parts of agile development, and it’s often the most misunderstood. Let’s be real: stand-ups by themselves don’t make your team agile. They aren’t about inflating egos or justifying job descriptions. They aren’t a time to plan; Sprint planning is for planning. They also aren’t the only time to mention blockers. If you’re stuck, ask for help!

Share tribal knowledge securely with Confluence Questions 2

We built Confluence Questions to help you share tribal knowledge and get answers to your questions at work. It’s helped us share broad, Atlassian-wide questions and get answers to specific questions, too. Today, we’re excited to announce Confluence Questions 2, which will help you share information within your team by making sure questions are both relevant and secure.

New ebook: Jira Service Desk’s guide to asset management

For any IT team, understanding assets is the key to better service. Effective asset management means these questions always have answers. This results in better, smarter IT service and overall cost savings, as assets often account for 20% of IT budget. This guide shows you how to build a simple asset management solution with Jira’s flexible workflow engine and how to integrate support and asset management for streamlined IT service.

Avoiding the email support ping-pong effect with Jira Service Desk

Learn about how email is the new ‘snail mail’ for service teams. This is the second post in our series on how your service team can build on top of email support with Jira Service Desk by getting the right information from the start, automatically categorizing tickets, and routing tickets to the right people.

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For Gilt, agile isn’t a best practice – it’s a mindset

With over 6 million members, Gilt is one of the hottest e-commerce sites on the planet. At noon every day it provides a flash sale of today’s top designer labels at up to 60% off retail. “At Gilt, every day is Black Friday,” says lead engineer Yoni Goldberg. Seconds after announcing a new sale, site traffic and transactions hurtle astronomically. Every employee and every team from development to distribution centers must be ready for the spike. It takes an agile, collaborative effort, spanning hundreds of employees from Dublin to Manhattan, to ensure a smooth and reliable customer experience.

How Twitter reduced email support by 80% with Jira Service Desk

By 2017, 132 billion business emails will be sent and received per day. By the time you finish reading this, 20 more billion business emails will be written.* Email is our go-to mode of communication. While it’s great for conversation, email often gets used in parts of the business where it’s not scalable – including internal support. A few email exchanges may seem harmless, but as your company grows, your internal service desk will become flooded with email requests from employees with no way to prioritize, categorize, assign, or deflect them. The result? Lost tickets, wasted time by agents, and unhappy employees.