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Article in Leadership

75 inspirational leadership quotes you haven’t heard yet

For something to inspire and support your work, take a look at these quotes from true leaders.

Introducing Jira Product Discovery Premium

Scale planning, improve visibility, and maintain control and governance across teams.

Article in Teamwork

Lead how they need: adopting a situational leadership style

Turns out, effective leadership is less about particular style, and more about adapting to the situation.

Article in Teamwork

9 retrospective techniques that won’t bore your team to tears

Don’t let your retros become stale, check-the-box-and-let’s-get-outta-here exercises that serve no purpose. Use these ideas to keep your team engaged.

Article in Innovation

Quiz: Which time management strategy is right for you?

Learn how to prioritize what matters – and let go of what doesn’t.

Article in Innovation

A Comprehensive Guide to Work Management in 2025

Read this guide to learn why your company needs a Work Management solution.

Article in Teamwork

The Dunning-Kruger effect: why and how we overestimate our own abilities

It can happen to anyone, from an entry-level employee to a CEO – here’s how to make sense of imposter syndrome’s tricky cousin.

Article in Teamwork

How to be a successful project owner (without micromanaging)

A deep-dive on the unique role of the project owner, plus the guiding principles and go-to techniques that will take you to the next level.

Article in Leadership

8 proven leadership principles and the psychology behind them

Effective leaders come in all shapes, sizes, and styles – but certain leadership principles underscore them all.

Article in Teamwork

10 teamwork examples to inspire your best work together

Think teamwork *just happens* when you put people into a group? There’s a little more to it than that.

Article in How We Build

Tools for teamwork in a distributed world

Hear more from Annie Dean on tools for teamwork in a distributed world in her on-demand Team ’24 session! Rethinking teamwork and collaboration The traditional workday is not working anymore. Today’s workers are plagued by back-to-back meetings, overflowing inboxes, and minimal clarity on how to drive projects forward.  With 78% of people struggling to juggle […]

Article in Developers

How visuals can boost the accuracy of product development

This is a guest post written by Mac McConnell, VP of Marketing at Gliffy, creators of visual planning apps on the Atlassian Marketplace – Gliffy Project and Gliffy Diagram. “That is not what the ticket said to build. How could that paragraph of text be misunderstood? It is so clear. ” -Any Product Manager, Anywhere Any […]

Article in Developers

How using checklists in Jira can help teams be more Agile

This article was written with Olga Rusnak of Railsware. —— In the late ‘90s and early 2000s, most technology companies applied the waterfall methodology, imposing strict documentation requirements and sequential development approaches. This often led to releasing insufficiently tested, or even technologically and contextually outdated products. Thus, in 2001, Agile appeared as an alternative to […]