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Trello for hr: the best boards for people teams
If there’s one team that has a pulse on the inner workings of an organization, it’s the folks in the human resources department. They are both in the background and at the front lines of the company to make sure every employee is happy and productive. We’re sure you agree: HR’ers are key players in the development, growth, and success of a business.
Downtime and taxes: an open letter to the IRS
Dear IRS, We imagine that Tax Day during the best of times is extremely hectic, so we can’t even imagine what your past 24 hours has been like. First off, we wanted to send you some massive #HugOps from all of us at Statuspage – we know how stressful unplanned downtime can be. Our bread […]
Why ageism could be keeping you from your best teamwork
The irony of ageism: insulting our future selves.
Introducing the Confluence Cloud app for Stride
[cta]Messaging is just not the best place for a full-length blog post, in-depth project review, or documentation article — but Confluence is. Confluence’s open and shared workspace helps teams connect and stay organized, and is perfect for anything from product roadmaps to creative briefs. In short, Confluence helps everyone collaborate on long-form content. The new Confluence Cloud app for […]
How the best teams in the world run on Jira Software
[cta]Great software teams around the world all share a common goal: to build products that users will love. The majority also have something else in common: tens of thousands of teams rely on Jira software every day to plan, track, and release their products. But the composition of each of those teams, how they work […]
Growing the next generation of coders and computational thinkers
This guest post was written by Vivek Ravisankar, CEO & Cofounder of HackerRank, a platform that helps programmers hone their skills and connect with companies. HackerRank is the leading player in the programming talent assessment space, and the company is growing. Programming is a fundamental tool to help you discover solutions to problems by following […]
The “coffee shop effect”: why changing your location boosts your productivity
Uniting technical and non-technical teams for better incident response
[cta]It takes a village to respond to and resolve incidents. But the teams involved in incident response often work in silos: SREs and devs are heads down fixing the problem, support is flooded with emails/tickets, and marketing/PR may be putting out fires on Twitter. Even if there’s some communication happening over chat or across desks, there’s […]
Approvals just got a whole lot easier in Jira Service Desk Server
[cta]You may have noticed a theme these past few Jira Service Desk releases – the team has been focused on making approvals a whole lot easier for your team. In Jira Service Desk 3.9, we implemented a THEN clause which allows you to automatically approve or decline requests when they meet certain criteria. In 3.10, we made approvals […]
Designing inclusive illustrations (or, a brief history of the meeple)
[cta]2017 was a huge year for the Atlassian brand and design. We developed a new design language that touches every part of our business. It was an effort not only to change the way we embody our personality but also change the standard we hold ourselves to. Over the past few years, our use of illustration has become more […]
Use Jira Software search to accelerate DevOps workflows
[cta]Imagine you’re driving down the highway, and you see what appears to be a traffic jam in the distance. Before the panic sets in, you realize your car is equipped with GPS. You have complete, wizard-like visibility into what’s ahead and can answer exact questions like: what are the alternative routes? What’s my new estimated time […]
5 benefits of using an intranet in the workplace
As someone who grew up in this digitized age, there are two things that are important to my productivity: I’m able to share and access information as easily and pain-free as possible I’m able to connect with my teammates on more than just work Thankfully for me, intranets are still alive and thriving. Your intranet is the […]
Faster communication, more efficient teams: Results from our first ever customer survey
We’ve heard a lot of great customer stories at StatusPage over the years. From the support team who cut customer wait times in half, to the security company managing incident communication across 46 customer deployment groups, we know our customers see the value in their StatusPage account. [cta] We’re always hungry to know more about […]