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Task management with Confluence and Jira
I’d like to take a few moments to share how task management in Confluence relates to Jira. Both products enable teams to collaborate using task management and distribution. Confluence works well for smaller business teams, whereas Jira excels for larger projects. Getting from here to goal People rally around goals. For goals to be actionable, we need to break them […]
Deliver well: requirements to deployment
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap! 2 Moving from roadmaps to requirements 3 Deliver well: requirements to deployment Prioritizing requirements using epics and versions Now that we have all of the requirements as user stories for a particular feature inside of Jira, it’s […]
Moving from roadmaps to requirements
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap! 2 Moving from roadmaps to requirements 3 Deliver well: requirements to deployment If you’re still with me after my agile heresy, Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap!, then I’d like to move down to the next level […]
Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap!
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Yes Virginia, even agile teams roadmap! 2 Moving from roadmaps to requirements 3 Deliver well: requirements to deployment Give context to your teams Roadmapping has always been a dirty word in agile circles. In some ways it feels inherently waterfall to plan a […]
Inside Atlassian: building automated index pages in Confluence
When we introduced Confluence Blueprints a year ago, we wanted to empower all of our users to create rich pages for their repeatable business processes. If you’ve ever used the product requirements, or decisions Blueprints you’ve seen how easy it is to also track all the pages you’ve created on a single index page. This […]
Managing vacation days with Jira and Confluence
Here at Atlassian, we love using our own stuff. And when we’re not busy building kick-ass new products, we’re usually off finding new ways to use our stuff internally. Recently, Jeff Sinclair, our IT portfolio manager devised a clever way to combine the power of Jira Service Desk and Confluence to manage employee leave. “We […]
3 ways Confluence makes authoring for WordPress awesome
This is the second post in a three-part series about how we use our tools to power atlassian.reaktivdev.com. In part one we focused on using Jira Agile to manage the cadence and blog flow. Unlike a personal blog, content is a collaborative effort here at Atlassian; this allows for multiple perspectives and results in better quality […]
5 ways to work with Jira issues in Confluence
Half of the teams that use Jira also use Confluence. Development teams live in Jira where they track their work; The rest of the business lives in Confluence where everyone collaborates around requirements, documentation, marketing plans, sales reports, and anything else. We’ve worked hard over the last year to bring Jira into Confluence like never […]
Publish Jira reports in Confluence, fast
One out of every two Confluence customers also uses Jira. Development teams live in Jira where they track their work; the rest of the business lives in Confluence where everyone collaborates around requirements, documentation, marketing plans, sales reports, and everything else. You’ve told us you need an easy way communicate the work that your development […]
Managing a product backlog with ease (3/3)
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Organizing your backlog 2 Prioritizing work 3 Handing off to engineering In the last post, we outlined how Josh Devenny, one of the Jira product managers, uses GreenHopper to prioritize work for the team. He works closely with the development team to ensure […]
Managing a product backlog with ease (2/3)
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Organizing your backlog 2 Prioritizing work 3 Handing off to engineering I received a number of comments on the post Managing a product backlog with ease. Because there were several key questions around the larger workflow and how the product managers interact with […]
Five Confluence features beginners will love
Prior to joining Atlassian on the Confluence Marketing team, I had never used Confluence, so I understand what it’s like to learn it from scratch. There are tons of useful features for any kind of Confluence user that I’m still learning, but I found concentrating on a few basics helped me get comfortable quickly. 1. Keep […]
Four fast ways to link to content in Confluence
The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. At Atlassian we live in Confluence. Our intranet houses all the content that keeps the company running. This collection of rich pages and […]
Five Keyboard Shortcuts I Can’t Live Without
I’ve said it before – I’m a productivity junkie. If there’s a faster way to get something done, I’ll find it. That’s why I commit keyboard shortcuts to memory. Shortcuts for the actions I perform the most. Shortcuts that help me get more work done, faster. Since I spend 90% of my day working with my team in Confluence I thought I’d share the five keyboard shortcuts I use the most to get my job done.
How to manage a product backlog with ease
Product owners have the challenging task of ingesting feedback from multiple sources, organizing it into a meaningful format, and communicating out to the product teams. Feedback is a critical part of the product life cycle. We can’t iterate to make our products better without it, as we talked about in our three-part series on collecting […]