Inside Atlassian

Browse HR

Article in Company news

50,000 dreams come true

$48,500. That was the PricewaterhouseCoopers salary that I turned down in 2002 to start Atlassian with Mike Cannon-Brookes. There was no technology industry in Australia at the time, nor a start-up industry. Our university professors disowned us. Our parents looked the other way. Our original goal was to earn more than $48,500 and not to have to […]

Article in Company news

7 reasons you can’t miss Atlassian Summit 2015

Our 7th annual user conference is back and larger than ever. Whether you’re an admin, developer, product manager, or passionate user, Atlassian Summit is a must-attend event. Still on the fence? Check out the top 7 reasons you won’t want to miss the largest Atlassian Summit yet.

Article in Agile

How to create sprint retrospective and demo pages (like a BOSS) with Confluence

As software makers, we rely heavily on sprint retrospectives and demos to learn more about what’s going on with our team and our products. Read on to see how to build pages that record what you’ve learned and let you share it outside your team.

Article in Company news

Atlassian Summit 2015: how to convince your boss

Ahhh, the end of summer. (Or in the case of our southern hemisphere readers, the equally-lovely end of winter.) The kids are back in school, it’s still warm enough to grill up some burgers n’ brats, and your sunburns have finally healed. In short, everyone in the office is in a good mood. Which got […]

Article in Agile

Creating insightful customer interview pages using Confluence

Using Confluence to document and share customer interviews can help with every step of the process, including using feedback to create better products. Check out these design tips and best practices for creating customer interview pages.

Article in Company news

Atlassian named best workplace in Australia for the second straight year

We’re both thrilled and humbled that Atlassian has been named the #1 Best Place to Work in Australia for the second year in a row.

Article in Agile

Maintaining company culture as your agile teams scale

Establishing a unified culture with a small team can be easy. But as an organization grows, maintaining that same agile culture gets more and more challenging. Teams can become siloed, and the shared company vision, norms, systems, and habits are more difficult to preserve. So what lessons can we impart about keeping your culture intact as your agile teams scale?

Article in HR

#LoveWins at Atlassian

When I moved from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to San Francisco in 2011 to work for Atlassian, I wasn’t sure what to expect. From the outside, everything looked great. They even had these values that seemed to be a big deal. It didn’t take long being on the inside to realize what an amazing place to work […]

Article in Confluence

3 ways to report information in Confluence

Confluence has a simple mission: to be the one place where you organize, create, and discuss work with your team. You can centralize (and organize) all your work in a single place accessible by your entire team or company. In this blog post, I’ll focus on three major improvements to existing macros available in our latest release, Confluence 5.8, that will help you organize your work and knowledge in Confluence.

Article in Confluence

Confluence 101: get the free ebook and graduate with honors

Our crash course in the basics of using Confluence started off with organizing your work in spaces. Next came creating content with pages, and we concluded with discussing work with your team. The goal: to give new users the resources to get started successfully, and vets a chance to learn best practices and new tips and tricks. The […]

Article in Confluence

Three tips to help you organize tables in Confluence

Tables are a useful tool when creating beautiful and organized Confluence pages. In our latest release, Confluence 5.8, we made some major improvements to table functions that will help you create and manage even your most massive tables. Here’s a look at three new features that will make a huge difference when you work with your next table.

Article in HR

Inside Atlassian: how our HR team uses Jira Service Desk

The way we help each other inside of organizations is changing. With internal team collaboration so critical to success, how teams service and provide support to others in the organization is becoming a new way of approaching work. In our latest blog on this topic, we found that 50% of organizations have adopted or are […]

Article in Apps

Multiexcerpt plugin for Confluence: when once is not enough

Featured add-on: Multiexcerpt Plugin – Select multiple excerpts across a page or across different spaces and recombine them to aggregate your content the way you want. You want to display content from one page onto another page? Confluence makes that easy. But what if you’re a super-user and want to pull together excerpts from multiple pages or […]

Article in Apps

Tempo Books: new professional services automation add­-on for Jira

This April, Tempo released Tempo Books, a modern and flexible professional services solution on top of Jira. Tempo Books for Jira is built on years of experience and customer feedback. As a result, our add-on is designed to address the unique requirements of professionals using Jira and Jira Agile for their sold services and client projects.

Article in Apps

Automated Work Log for Jira: keeping time so you don’t have to

You’ve been working through an issue all morning and you suddenly realize you forgot to log the time you started. Oops. If you’re like a lot of people who can’t even remember what they had for breakfast, keeping track of a precise start time can feel hopeless. Automated Work Log for Jira, from Gebsun Support, may not spark your memory, but it could save your bacon next time.