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Scheduled maintenance message examples and inspiration
[cta]A well run service needs routine maintenance. Without regular system maintenance, updates would go uninstalled, bugs would go unsquashed, patches would go … unpatched. It’s important for the long-term reliability of your service that ops teams and system administrators feel confident and empowered about announcing maintenance activities. Whether you’re running a public service on the […]
A preview of the new agility boards in Jira Software
[cta]For more than a decade, Jira Software has helped teams around the globe turn ideas into reality. From building the world’s most prominent music streaming service, to landing a rover on Mars, to distributing life-changing healthcare in developing nations. Regardless of a team’s size, structure, or preferred style of work, Jira Software’s power and flexibility allows teams to plan, track, and deliver. However, it’s no secret this same power and […]
What’s your feedback flavor? How to give negative feedback beyond the compliment sandwich
Introducing project archiving for Jira Software Data Center
If you’ve ever let your lawn grow way too long, or skipped spring cleaning for another year (but I need that pair of shoes that don’t quite fit), you may have something in common with many Jira administrators. [cta]In Jira, it’s very easy to create new projects and tickets. But it’s not always so easy […]
Why Bitbucket Pipelines is the best CI/CD tool for your Docker-based software
In the Bitbucket team, we believe containerization is the future of continuous integration and deployment. Running your software in containers brings consistency and predictability all the way from your development environment, through your CI/CD pipeline out to production. To help smooth the path for container-based development, I wanted to reflect back on a set of […]
How KodaCloud moved off Excel and onto Portfolio for Jira
[cta]For product and engineering leaders at small and medium sized companies, staying up to date about work happening across multiple engineering teams can be a time-consuming endeavor. (For larger companies, it very often becomes a full time job.) This was exactly the problem that Hubert Sugeng, Director of Engineering at KodaCloud, was facing. Hubert oversees […]
How an outage helped Wistia get on board with Statuspage
This is a guest post from Jordan Munson, Support Engineer at Wistia What do you do when your software is experiencing a critical outage? Post an update to your status page, send out some updates via social, answer emails and calls that come in about it, etc. It all seems pretty obvious what to do […]
How to prepare for the remote-friendly future of work
Three investments to make in anticipation of the highly-distributed future of work. And they won’t cost you a penny.
How to embed Excel tables in Jira issues
Need to comment on Jira issues with a table of data from Excel to support your findings? Here’s the formatting shortcut you’ve been waiting for.
7 true stories of people building incredibly productive morning routines
Productivity advice can often come across as rather drab and uninteresting when it’s doled out like artificially flavored cough medicine. This isn’t the fault of the advice itself, but rather the delivery. On the flip side, we can learn a lot from stories, especially when these stories are both true and read like pages out of somebody’s (productivity) diary.
Looking back on the largest DDoS in history
[cta]On October 21, 2016 at approximately 4am PST, the internet broke. OK, we know the internet doesn’t “break.” But hundreds of important services powering our modern web infrastructure had outages – all stemming from a DDoS targeting Dyn, one of the largest DNS providers on the internet. Here is the initial status notification Dyn customers […]
Atlassian’s 2018 State of Diversity Report finds “diversity fatigue” is real
This year’s results show that diversity fatigue has set in and progress has stalled. People are tired of talking about it, frustrated by inaction, and overwhelmed by the number of issues.
5 tips for shifting left in continuous testing
This is a guest post by Shani Shoham, President and COO for Testim.io, a test automation platform that uses machine learning to create self-healing stable tests. [cta]What is continuous testing? In broad terms, it means testing from the beginning to the end of each development cycle. It means running unit tests, functional tests, performance tests, […]