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Is your team making bad decisions? The culprit is likely your conversations
“Oh no, here we go again,” thought Laura as she sat in her weekly engineering meeting. Two of her engineers, Rob and Rachel were at it again. Arguing back and forth, over and over, about which framework they should choose for their next big project. She had seen this many times before. Team meetings where […]
How to win at CI with configuration-as-code and Bamboo Specs
[cta]Expectations from continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools differ between teams and organizations. Small projects require relatively simple CI/CD solutions, where the simplicity of configuration (with a handful of defaults) is the key to success. However, mature, enterprise teams have more intricate processes, with hundreds of thousands of tests and advanced release pipelines. […]
104 years of downtime: looking through a year of Statuspage incident data
Statuspage customers logged more than 104 years of collective incidents in 2017. We’re always interested in the ripple effects of downtime, and with a few high-profile outages taking place in 2017, we wanted to see what our numbers had to say. To get a handle on this, we decided to look through our data on how many […]
3 myths that explain why innovation fails
Businesses are terrible at innovating. Sure, recruiters promise innovative jobs, companies claim to sell innovative merchandise, and shareholders rave about innovation. But most of these promises are hollow. (And deep down, we all know it.) That spells trouble for anyone competing in a well-established market space. You can’t be a little bit different or a little […]
A beginner’s guide to scaling DevOps
Over the years “DevOps” has become quite the buzzword. It’s been used to describe culture changes, automation, change management, continuous delivery… essentially, a culture where dev and ops collaborate to build a faster, more reliable release pipeline. That’s all well and good… until you’ve been assigned the task of scaling your organization’s “DevOps transformation”. It’s an […]
15 hot takes on the future of agile
#IWish there was another kind of Agile besides just Scrum and Kanban. #RetroOnAgile — Dan Chuparkoff (@Chuparkoff) January 28, 2018 Agile is about to reach its 20th birthday. Software teams, support teams, and even marketing teams have been practicing its rules and principles for years. These teams have built some amazing products thanks to agile […]
10 ways to tell if your team trusts you as a leader
Trust makes your job as a leader easier in just about every way possible. Your teams make decisions faster (and revisit them less often). People pro-actively admit to and learn from mistakes instead of scrambling to hide them. It’s easy enough to know your own level of trust in the people you lead. But gauging […]
AWS status: The complete guide to monitoring status on the web’s largest cloud provider
If you’re hosting on AWS, you can expect some pretty excellent reliability and availability. If your service isn’t responding, it’s likely an issue with your own code. On the other hand, system outages do happen. They’re usually pretty minor.[cta] Sometimes, they’re not. While AWS is the largest cloud provider and boasts excellent reliability, the service […]
How Thrillist merged into Group Nine Media and scaled its planning process with Portfolio for Jira
Aligning plans across an organization, staying up to date on progress, and then communicating that progress to stakeholders – simple, right? [cta]Anyone who has been tasked with this responsibility across multiple teams knows there’s often pain associated with it. Once upon a time, the way that Thrillist dealt with this challenge was by entering issues […]
Feeling scattered? Regain your focus with these 5 rituals
[cta]If there’s anyone out there not feeling dizzy after a topsy-turvy 2017, I’ll eat my hat. (Also, would you please share the secret to your serenity?) Between the debate over remote work, Facebook’s near-daily changes affecting branded content, and the fact that robots might take our jobs, we’re being pulled in a hundred different directions. Not to […]
Coming from Hipchat? What to know and <3 in Stride
Hi, Hipchat friends! We’re so happy you’re checking out Stride. Whether you know it or not, you’ve been instrumental in making Stride come to life. All features, designs, and functionality were created with you in mind.[cta] Stride has all the features you relied on in Hipchat Cloud, like group chat, direct messaging, and video chat. […]
We made a data visualization of our org chart and it looks surprisingly like a human heart
At Atlassian, we’re constantly studying teamwork. In that research, we know it’s best to start with ourselves; to understand how our teams work together first before applying our knowledge elsewhere. As a data scientist, I naturally turned first to our data. I wanted to create a network graph visualization of our company in order to […]
Groom your backlog like a boss with Jira Software
How many times have you heard — or said — this? It’s so easy to let the projects, requests, and bugs pile up in your backlog until you can’t even remember what these tickets were in the first place. And it can feel like an impossible task to even sort through them: prioritizing what to […]
Why every Atlassian administrator should get certified in 2018
The beginning of the year is the usual time to reflect on past accomplishments and set goals for the year ahead, both personally and professionally. The personal goals seem to come more naturally: be healthier, travel more, get organized. But when it comes to professional goals, it can often be harder to come up with […]
Team building, in prison
This month, 50 Atlassians participated in a rather unique team-building day. We went to prison. As part of taking the Pledge 1% pledge, Atlassian gives 1% of employee time to social causes. That translates into roughly 5 days each year that Atlassians use for all manner of social good – volunteering at a food bank, […]