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Track code changes in Jira issues for Subversion, Perforce and more
It has always been a huge priority for Atlassian to bridge the gap between code and issues, and make teams more productive. The newest release of Jira 6.2, with integrations into Fisheye and Crucible 3.3, does just that by boosting the traceability between issues and source. The development panel in Jira will give you all […]
Trust the merge and branch simplification musings
Our recent webinar featuring product rock stars Jens Schumacher and Ken Olofsen gave a great overview of git workflows. Branching workflows go from bare and simple, to complex, robust, and defensive. What is the level of complexity and safeguard needed by your organization? This post covers the compromise between nimbleness and robustness, with some guidelines to choose your own git adventure and lessons learned inside […]
Git the whole picture in Jira
In October we introduced Atlassian’s feature branching workflow – a simple and foolproof way to get started with Git branching for teams using Jira, Stash, Sourcetree, and Bamboo. The push-button branching keeps your branch names consistent with your Jira issue, making it easy to organize and track your branches. Today, we are excited to bring even more […]
5 Steps to launching a thriving Q&A Community
This article is for people wanting to deploy an internal question and answer community for employee knowledge sharing. Enterprise Q&A communities are growing in popularity as companies are replacing forums, bulletin boards, and mailing lists with a more natural question and answer format popularized by sites like Quora and Stack Overflow. Imagine having a self-governing […]
#JiraHelpsMe: Meet the winners!
Last month, we announced the #JiraHelpsMe contest. We asked Jira users to tweet what Jira helps them do with the hashtag #JiraHelpsMe for a chance to win iPad minis and free t-shirts! We had a blast reading through all the things Jira helps our customers do. Here are some of our favorite tweets: #JiraHelpsMe maintain […]
Evaluating Jira Agile: Jira Agile is for everyone
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Evaluating Jira Agile – Product owners 2 Evaluating Jira Agile – Scrum masters 3 Evaluating Jira Agile – Team Members 4 Evaluating Jira Agile – Everyone Transitioning to agile is a journey for all teams. Fortunately, Jira Agile has powerful tools for scrum and […]
Watch the Do Agile Right webinar – Q&A with Atlassian product managers
Three weeks ago two of our very own Atlassian Confluence product managers, Sherif Mansour and John Masson, hosted a live webinar sharing Agile best practices that they’ve learned over the years, including: When to write product requirements documents, and when to seek alternatives How to write effective product requirements documents How to build prototypes when designing new features Using Jira and Confluence […]
3 ways to get more from Jira and Confluence
This is a guest post from Remie Bolte of CollabSoft, an Atlassian Expert and developer of 10 add-ons on the Atlassian Marketplace. In my time as a software developer, I have worked with a number of traditional software teams that made the move to agile development and switched to Jira to track their work. That […]
What’s new in Git 1.9
I know you are all busy with looting marathons in DayZ but bear with me. Something is worth checking out today. The latest git point release (1.9) has come out! Here is what caught my eye from the release notes. If you’re inclined you can obviously go ahead and scour the notes in all their […]
New webinar – Feature development lifecycle with Git
If you’ve ever sat down with a more experienced developer for a pair programming session, you’d probably agree that it’s one of the most effective ways to learn, and absorb new skills, tools, and tricks. So I am very happy to present you with a new webinar that will reproduce the same feel of a […]
How using Hipchat helps build our company culture
Your company’s culture plays a huge role in attracting and retaining talent, fostering community and relationships, and dictating overall company direction. Inc. magazine even has a whole section devoted to it. So given how much importance is placed on company culture, why would you risk not having a strong one? The first step towards a strong culture […]
Extending the Jira Automation plugin
For information on what the Jira Automation plugin is, and how it can help you, please read the first part of my article, Why Atlassian support uses the Jira Automation plugin. Open for extension: Write your own triggers and actions! The automation plugin is fully extensible in the sense that you can easily create your […]
Guest blog: Migrating a large codebase to Git with Atlassian Stash
Stash is now called Bitbucket Server. Read our announcement blog. This guest post comes courtesy of Carolyn Van Slyck, a full-stack software developer and a newly converted champion for Git. Carolyn has recently spearheaded her team’s source code migration from SVN to Git with the help of Stash and subgit. She will be sharing her […]
Watch the Do Agile Right webinar – Lessons learned from an Atlassian software engineer
Yesterday, two of our very own Atlassian Confluence developers, Anatoli Kazatchkov and Edith Tom, hosted a live webinar sharing agile best practices for software development that they’ve learned over the years. They talked about: Spiking new features and running shorter sprints Running frequent demos, dogfooding, and shipping frequently Empowering developers, open communication, and continuous improvement Using Jira […]
Feed your wallboard
Any agile coach (except perhaps Chet Rong) will tell you that there are a few critical keys to doing agile right: Don’t depend on email and spreadsheets; collaborate on work with an issue tracker. A short daily stand-up is important to keep everyone up to date on progress and identify dependencies. Display all critical team […]