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Jira Software Server 7.4 – flexibility meets productivity
When an organization grows and Jira Software scales to include more teams, striking a balance between administrative control and team flexibility can be tough. On the one hand, teams want the ability to modify their processes quickly to fit their evolving needs and stay ahead of development trends. On the other hand, system and global […]
Jira Service Desk Server 3.6 – Eliminate downtime, resolve issues faster, and stop guesstimating
[cta] Jira Service Desk Server 3.6 is here with collaborator comments, SLA improvements, and zero downtime upgrades. Allow collaborators to comment on existing requests via email so they’re resolved faster, stop guesstimating with improved readability of SLAs in the queue, and eliminate downtime (giving you your weekends back!) with zero downtime upgrades in Jira Service […]
A product manager’s guide to release planning
Growing up, my ski coach always used to say “If you don’t plan for it, it won’t happen.” He wanted us to set goals and lay out a path to reach them. The same sentiment can be applied to building software, except building software is much more of a team sport than skiing. You need […]
Aliasing authors in Git
So you’ve got a Git repository where the same person has used multiple emails. Maybe some commits were created with a mistake in the Git configuration. Maybe you used a home email address by mistake. Maybe you are merging with a new company so your old email address isn’t valid anymore. However it happened, you […]
The surprising cognitive benefits of small talk at work
The weather, Mondays, Game of Thrones, that local sports team… These are all generally considered as safe small talk topics at work.
Why developing grit is the best thing you can do for your career and your team
There’s a new trait rising in the ranks of what makes a person successful and no, it’s not IQ – it’s grit. A few years ago, Angela Duckworth, former teacher-turned-professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, became fascinated with what makes students successful. After many studies of middle school students in Chicago to West […]
Hipchat Data Center is here!
Hipchat Data Center is *officially* joining the Atlassian Data Center family. We know how critical Hipchat has become to doing business. Your teams rely on Hipchat to communicate, collaborate, and get work done fast. Downtime – planned or unplanned – is unacceptable. As your teams continue to grow and Hipchat usage spreads across your organization, […]
7 steps to a beautiful and useful agile dashboard
Greetings agile fans! A question I often get is how to configure Jira’s dashboards to show content that’s relevant for agile teams. It’s really just a matter of choosing the right elements. We’ll focus on a dashboard for a scrum team here, but many of these tips apply to kanban teams as well. If you […]
The 6 elements of process that yield endless productivity for teams
When you’re trying to grow a company efficiently, effectively, and economically, there’s no better way than by building a process-driven culture.
The gtd approach to maximizing productivity with Trello
A tutorial on adapting David Allen’s Getting Things Done using a Trello board, by the CEO of Greenhouse.
The best incident management is value driven – here’s why
Today, we’re all laser-focused on delivering world-class service, resolving issues faster, and building lasting trust within the organization. But things break – that’s just a fact. We need to think a lot about how to handle them when they do. So we follow our Incident Management process to restore service quickly and our Post-Incident Review […]
5 signs your company is ready for Confluence Data Center
For many of our customers, there comes a time in their Confluence journey when they need more than what a single server can provide. As applications grow across an organization, they become mission critical to every team’s success. We call this the “tipping point,” when organizations make the decision to move to an active-active clustered environment […]
Introducing the Atlassian Stack and the world’s largest DevOps marketplace
As more industries think software first, the need to modernize the way teams work becomes critical. For development teams, investments in agile practices and distributed version control systems improve the quality of code, boost collaboration, and help them release more often. However, keeping up with development’s trajectory becomes more challenging for IT operations teams and […]
Open Source Announcement: phased releases for Sparkle-based macOS apps
Many macOS apps like SourceTree are distributed outside of the Mac App Store and provide in-app updates via a popular open source framework – Sparkle. Using Sparkle, SourceTree pushes out updates to all users simultaneously whenever the Appcast.xml file is updated. While suitable for its intended purpose, these days many web services favor rolling out updates to groups of users in an […]
Introducing Confluence Cloud for iPad
There are those of you who love to be mobile but can’t fathom typing more than 50 characters on your phone. This week we’re introducing Confluence Cloud for iPad, for anyone who would love to create content on their mobile device but prefers a larger screen. Now you can type or review Confluence pages on […]