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Portfolio for Jira: development managers edition

This is part 2 of the Portfolio for Jira ‘across the team’ series. Last time, we talked about product managers and how they can use Portfolio for Jira to organize ideas, build roadmaps, and play with what-if scenarios. So in this edition, I’m going to show you how development managers can use Portfolio for Jira to […]

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5 Jira and Confluence plug-ins your HR team will love

Many Atlassian customers don’t realize there are loads of add-ons and integrations within our marketplace, including these 5 Jira plug-ins an HR department can use to create a unique, customized central system for their team and processes. Jira isn’t just for software teams, because all teams need to plan, track, and collaborate on projects. We built Jira Core to make Jira simpler for all business teams, and these add-ons help tailor the HR experience.

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Portfolio for Jira: product managers edition

There are a lot of stakeholders involved in the planning process, each with different needs, and as you’d expect, they all use Portfolio for Jira differently. So, we’re doing a series on Portfolio for Jira ‘across the team’ to show you how different team members can use it, starting with product managers. Product managers need reliable […]

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6 call-outs from the Summit 2015 keynote address

Highlights from the Summit 2015 keynote address including Hipchat Connect, Jira Software, Jira Core, Jira and Confluence for iOS, the Health Monitor, Room to Read, and Pledge 1%.

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From rough to real-time: Klarna’s planning revolution with Portfolio for Jira

Klarna simplifies buying by providing a streamlined solution for all payment types, so that businesses can give their customers the simplest buying experience. They believe that the easier it is for people to shop, the more you sell.  But Klarna’s planning process wasn’t as simple as its buying process. They needed a real-time planning solution […]

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Jira Software just got easier to navigate (and more fun, too)

The new customizable sidebar brings projects and your team to center stage in Jira Software. Read on for our list of conventional (and not-so-conventional) ways to use it.

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Introducing Jira Software: the #1 software development tool used by agile teams

Today we’re thrilled to announce the next branch in Jira’s evolution: Jira Software. This new branch was created specifically for software teams, the customers who made Jira great from the beginning.

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Tearing down the walls between development and support

Anyone who works in support will agree: it feels like the dev team isn’t exactly on your side. One of the biggest frustrations in support is when a problem can’t be solved because the dev team is needed to fix a bug or create a new feature. Check out we broke down the departmental silos.

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The smoke test: the golden arrow in an admin’s quiver

Software teams have long benefitted from using a smoke test to quickly validate a new software build. The smoke test is designed to verify basic functionality and the most common problems that appear in the product. Using a structured smoke test makes managing change across your Confluence instance much easier as it’s an easily reproducible test any administrator can perform. In this article we’ll cover how to use the admin tools to verify integrity, how to generate a good content test bed, and how to run those tests.

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Skyscanner’s tips for bug triage in Jira + Jira Service Desk

When something goes wrong, it’s nice to know that you can simply raise a ticket and see it fixed. For those of us doing the fixing, it’s not as easy as it looks. You’ve probably got a backlog of tickets that you need to sort through each day. Some of those tickets actually report a […]

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Break it down: decomposing user stories in Jira

With over 500k agile projects in Jira (among just Cloud customers – wow!), we realized we’re sitting on a ton of data that sheds light on how agile teams function. We then bet, that with some anonymized data mining, we could find teams that have a release cadence that they hit sprint after sprint after sprint.

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Three simple ways to encourage bug reporting

When it comes to software, bugs are always a concern. A bug in the system can take an entire company down if it goes unnoticed. Staying on top of your system’s health is imperative. But, who hunts for bugs?

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A shake n’ bake recipe for realistic roadmaps with Jira Portfolio

This recipe is for the perfect roadmap. It’s data-driven, realistic, and it’ll give you the ability to combine agile and long term planning, without the need for messy spreadsheets.

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Jira Portfolio is now Jira Data Center compatible

Data Center is all about performance at scale. Jira Portfolio is all about agile at scale. And now we’ve combined the power of both — Jira Portfolio is now Jira Data Center compatible! So if you want to combine long-term planning with agile, and get great performance for growing teams, your time has finally come.

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The challenges of scaling software development teams globally: pt. 1

Atlassian is a unique software company: we use our own products just as much as our 40,000+ customers do. And like so many of our customers, we experience the same growing pains that many software companies face, especially when it comes to scaling. Why? Because Atlassian went from one small team in Sydney, to over 1,300 people […]