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Article in Jira

Eliminate downtime with Jira Software Data Center

Recently, Atlassian solutions engineer, Benjamin King, and Jira Software engineer, Dick Wiggers, teamed up to present a technical webinar on how our Data Center deployment option works, with a deeper dive into zero downtime upgrades for Jira Software Data Center. In case you missed it (or want to re-live the action!) we’ve compiled the key […]

Article in HR

Want better meetings? Meet Helmut, the rubber chicken

Don’t we all love meetings that go on forever? And people who love listening to the sound of their own voice? Obviously, the answer is “no”. Do we all want better meetings? Yes! I’ve sat in I-don’t-know-how-many business meetings over the course of my career where the discussion went forever, but was going nowhere. The […]

Article in DevOps

Atlassian extends leadership in Incident Management

Last summer, we made a bet on the importance of incident communications when we acquired Statuspage and added the first product to our suite to specifically address incident management and communications. We saw early on that providing status and regularly communicating with customers — especially during incidents — had become a critical part of the software […]

Article in DevOps

DevOps Maturity Model report: trends and best practices in 2017

DevOps has been a cultural force in the world of software and operations for 10 years. Like many grassroots movements, DevOps practices have been slowly but steadily gaining traction among operations and software teams in all sorts of industries. But where has 10 years of cultural change, infrastructure improvement, and tooling gotten us? To answer […]

Article in Apps

5 real-life examples of beautiful technical documentation

This is a guest post by Nils Bier, Customer Success team lead at K15t Software. He has been working to help technical communication teams by using Atlassian tools and Scroll add-ons for 5 years. [cta] Technical documentation is an invaluable resource for your users. And with fast-moving development teams and product release cycles, it can […]

Article in Trello

Picture this: free unsplash backgrounds for every Trello board

They say a photograph is worth a thousand words, but at Trello we think it’s worth a thousand cards.

Article in Clover

Atlassian Clover is now open source

Our company mission – to unleash the potential in every team – shapes the products we create today. A big part of this is delivering new features and improvements through continual updates and releases. For many years Atlassian Clover has provided Java and Groovy developers a reliable source for code coverage analysis. This dependability has allowed […]

Article in Apps

20 great ITSM add-ons for Jira Service Management

In 2017, we were thrilled to learn that Jira Service Management was named the #1 Most Affordable ITSM solution and the #1 Most Popular ITSM software by Capterra, an independent review site that compiles reviews from millions of users. In addition to service request, incident, problem and change management templates for requests that make it […]

Article in Company news

A message to our RSS subscribers

Greetings, readers! As part of overhauling the Atlassian Blog, we’ve moved our RSS feeds away from Feedburner – an open source system that was deprecated years ago. If you’d like to keep getting posts via RSS, please switch your subscription to this feed: To receive all posts, subscribe to https://atlassian.reaktivdev.com/feed What’s happening with the legacy […]

Article in DevOps

3 ways AI will change project management for the better

This is a guest post written by Scott Middleton, founder and CEO of stratejos. stratejos is a smart assistant for software teams using Jira and Hipchat. If you’ve read any tech media recently then you’re probably hearing a lot about artificial intelligence (AI). Some people herald it as the promise of the future, while others are […]

Article in HR

6 great Summit Europe sessions you won’t want to miss

We’re getting closer to our first European Summit in Barcelona and I’m so excited to share the program we’ve put together this year. During the 4 days of Atlassian Summit & AtlasCamp, you can choose between 90 presentations covering all kinds of topics – from tips and tricks on how to use and extend our […]

Article in Bitbucket

The connected value of agile and git

Building software is a lot harder than it looks. Customer requirements evolve, priorities shift, dependencies form and break, and at times progress seems to be at odds with plans. Agile teams deal with this by embracing customer collaboration and healthy team interaction, as well as placing a premium on responding to change with speed. However, […]

Article in IT

Top 5 reasons to choose Jira Service Desk vs. the competition

The future of service is here! Jira Service Desk is a new kind of service management software that IT and business teams actually like to use. Jira Service Desk delivers an effortless service experience that adapts to your needs with pricing and setup time at a fraction of competitors’. Why have so many of our customers made the switch from competitor systems? Check out the top five reasons.

Article in Software

Making it easier to track product bugs and suggestions

We love how you adapt our tools to suit the needs of your teams, and when you come across items to bring to our attention your feedback is invaluable. Specifically, to effectively prioritize bugs and suggestions, we’re moving several jira.atlassian.com (JAC) projects into new projects focused on the cloud and server. This change will apply […]

Article in How we build

Displaying sync state

Early on, we realized that we needed some way to communicate to the user when data isn’t synced with the server yet. Otherwise, you could end up in a frustrating situation where you see a card you created on your device, but no one else can see it and you don’t know why. Design The […]