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5 things you’ll love about joining an Atlassian User Group – pizza & beer included
For nearly a decade, Atlassian customers from around the globe have come together to network, learn, and share ideas at local user groups. Today more than 10,000 people participate in Atlassian user groups, in over 25 countries. The ever-growing popularity of Atlassian User Groups speaks to the power of shared knowledge and best practices, as well as to the fun of the Atlassian community. Want to join in the awesome? Here are the essential deets about the world of Atlassian user groups and five things we think you’ll love about them.
Common Dockerfile Mistakes
We live in a containerized world. As companies transition from monolithic builds to microservice architectures, we often overlook some common mistakes we make when we write our Dockerfiles. Most are simple mistakes, allowing a user to make use of build cache in a more pragmatic fashion. Others, should be avoided at all costs. The following […]
Are you truly DevOps? Find out how your team compares in the 2016 State of DevOps report
This year, more than 4,600 technical IT and DevOps professionals from around the world shared their experiences in the Puppet Lab’s 2016 State of DevOps Report, helping the industry deepen its understanding of the technical practices, cultural norms and lean management practices that make up DevOps. What’s more, having this type of information helps other teams using DevOps practices benchmark their performance compared with others. Learn more about DevOps and see how your team measures up.
10 tips for creating a knowledge-powered IT service culture
The dos and don’ts of successful knowledge management.
4 science-backed methods to stop procrastinating
You have a huge deadline hanging over your head, and you know you should just get started but you can’t quite seem to stop procrastinating. Instead you answer a few emails, clean through your files, call your grandma, and organize your sock drawer—anything you can find to delay that daunting project just a little bit longer.
Fisheye & Crucible 4.1: flexible repository management and SVN improvements
We’re happy and excited to introduce you to a brand new Fisheye & Crucible 4.1 version! You’ll enter the new world of repository-level administration with the option for instance administrators to delegate permissions to add and manage particular repositories. We also now support SVN 1.9, as well as expose SVN merge info in the commit graph. Read on to learn more…
Hipchat Server 2.0 is here! Faster, more secure & more reliable
We’re excited to announce the official arrival of Hipchat Server 2.0! This new release ships with some key upgrades in security, controls, and flexibility. Hipchat Server runs on Ubuntu 14.04 to give customers a more stable, performant, and secure OS. We’ve also improved how upgrades occur, including a new offline upgrade capability. Read on to learn more!
How advertising agencies use Jira for business development
People at Helios Interactive realized Jira could be used for all sorts of different use cases throughout the agency. The more Jira spread, the more teams wanted to use it. Now, after just two years, nearly the entire agency uses Jira for projects that range from business development to invoice tracking, and it has become a critical part of their business. For business development, Helios uses Jira to track the entire client pipeline, from the first meeting to the last. Ben McChesney, Managing Partner and CTO, started it all by using Jira to manage development projects. We asked Ben to talk about how Helios uses Jira for business development.
Be more than a functional programmer – be a functional engineer
I’ve felt resistance to functional programming and to functional programmers ever since functional programming became “a thing”. While I’m disappointed by the arguments made against functional programming, I am equally (if not more) frustrated that the functional programming point of view has not evolved, leading it to be easily derided as developer religion. It’s time to move the discussion forward. Because no matter our views on functional programming vs. object-oriented programming vs. whatever else, we all need to be functional engineers.
Download our Git cheat sheet
The original post for this git cheat sheet lives here. New to Git? Our Git cheat sheet saves you time learning Git commands without having to memorize them all by heart. We’ve included the basic Git commands, Git branches, remote repositories, undoing changes, and more advanced commands. Download now Learn Git with Bitbucket For […]
4 ways to use knowledge management for ITIL processes
Jira Service Desk is excited to announce that agents can now view, search, and share knowledge base articles directly from an issue. By being able to discover and share knowledge easily, IT teams can streamline ITIL processes, including incident, change and problem management. Read out to find out how you can apply this new feature.
The future depends on more software developers
Software is changing the world – from medicine and education to fashion and transportation – and it’s impacting the way we work and how we live. The possibilities are limited only by the number of people with the ambition, great ideas, and opportunities to bring their ideas to life. Tech jobs are growing three times […]
Bitbucket Server 4.7: improved APIs for managing pull request restrictions
As software organisations grow it becomes difficult to ensure development rules and workflows are enforced across all teams and projects. With the release of Bitbucket Server and Bitbucket Data Center 4.7, we’ve made improvements to our REST and Java service APIs to make it easier for large software teams to make sure their rules and workflows are actually being followed – automatically.
Ideas to optimize your planning poker sessions
This is a guest post by Vitalii Zurian, a software engineer and the creator of a series of agile add-ons for Jira Cloud, including the #1 paid add-on, Planning Poker. Vitalli blogs at agilevalues.com. As your team matures and becomes more experienced, you’d think your estimates and planning poker sessions would improve as well. Seems […]
Inside Atlassian: how we use Jira Core for HR Project Management
The HR team at Atlassian was using excel and email to manage their projects. That is, until the bright-eyed Jira Core team approached ’em with a proposition: Implement Jira Core for them to manage their HR projects if they told us everything about the experience. Boom! We had ourselves a deal. And it was good one, because HR use cases typically involve onboarding and recruiting… but HR teams do so much more than that. Read on to learn about the results of the proposition, how the Atlassian HR team now uses Jira Core for HR project management to be more organized and in the know for all tasks, requests, and statuses.