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Agile roadmap planning done right with Jira Software and Portfolio for Jira

Agile software development supports a release plan, but it’s challenging to coordinate that on a multi-team level when you’ve got a lot of dependencies between teams. Rosetta Stone, a language learning technology company, found a solution to this challenge by bringing their entire development organization together about once per quarter to map out 10 to 12 weeks of work. And last week, I was lucky enough to watch how they do this at their 5th program increment planning (dubbed “PI5”). Here’s how it worked.

Article in Productivity

Why you need to train your brain to be more productive

Humans have a self-destructive love for quick fixes. Is this you? You don’t spend time developing systems (snooze), but you do read “53749 tips to boost your productivity” articles. It makes sense; you want to throw as much stuff at the wall and be pleased if anything sticks.

Article in Company news

Got questions? We’ve got answers. Git, agile and Jira/Bitbucket answers to be exact.

Our twitter chat has now ended! For a recap, check out the questions and answers on the #AskJiraBB hashtag, and stay tuned for more events to come. Are you a Jira Software or Bitbucket user? How about an Agile fan or Git enthusiast? We’re looking at you. To honor one of Atlassian’s core values, Don’t […]

Article in IT

Prevention, self-service, and strategic laziness: the recipe for service desk success

Selecting the right tools and software to run your service desk is just part of what makes your customers and engineers successful. Creating a collaborative, self-service environment where people can develop and implement the most effective ways to solve complex challenges – be it from customers or internally – will result in a chamber of innovative teams tackling any issue and adapting to ever-changing business needs.

Article in Developer

Protect our Git Repos, Stop Foxtrots Now!

First, what is a foxtrot merge? A foxtrot merge is a specific sequence of git commits. A particularly nefarious sequence. Out in the open, in lush open grasslands, the sequence looks like this: But foxtrots are rarely seen in the open. They hide up in the canopy, in-between the branches. I call them foxtrots because, […]

Article in Developer

Atlassian introduces new cloud development environment

The Atlassian Connect team is proud to announce the launch of the cloud development environment for JIRA and Confluence. We are really excited about this new environment and want to share with you a little more info about how to use it to build your add-ons. Why we did this Until now, you had to […]

Article in Apps

35 ways to get more work done from Hipchat

Lots of people love Hipchat for its collaborative team rooms, easy-to-use interface, and let’s not forget those fun emoticons! But did you know there are a myriad of ways to turn Hipchat into your one-stop productivity shop? Thanks to the integrations that have been built on the Hipchat Connect API, you and your teams can now get more stuff done from right within the comfort of your Hipchat application. From engineering to operations, marketing and support, here are 35 new integrations that will turn Hipchat into your team command center.

Article in Hipchat

How to use group chat to strengthen company culture

Think about how you communicate with the people on your team and in your company. In today’s offices, with distributed teams across the globe, we often don’t have the luxury of just walking up and saying, Yo. This inevitable lack of face time (to say nothing about the missed opportunities to practice your Rocky Balboa voice) leads to more impersonal forms of communication, like email. And over time, a disconnected feeling grows and it affects culture. So, if you can’t be together, you’ve got to replace that feeling of being together. A great way to do this is with group chat, because it encourages communication. And company culture is rooted in the ways teammates and coworkers communicate.

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Atlassian, trust, and the Cloud Security Alliance

Atlassian Trust Center We have launched our new Trust @ Atlassian site to make it easier to find the information you need to trust Atlassian products and cloud services.  We have Security at the heart of that trust relationship but also know that Quality, Availability, Privacy and Compliance are important.  We have detailed information about our Security program, including […]

Article in Bamboo

CI at scale with Bamboo Server 5.11 and 250 build agents

Bamboo 5.11 is here! Learn more about how to scale your CI pipeline with the new Bamboo 5.11 release, which includes the addition of 250 build agents. The upgrades we’ve made include allowing for REST APIs to trigger project deployment, improved application links for better issue tracking, and expanded permissions for better repository management.

Article in Productivity

Why you open too many browser tabs and how to stop it

Are you a digital packrat? Specifically, are you the type of person that has 50 browser tabs open all the time? The top bar of your browser is so squished that you have memorized the Favicon on every site for which you’re a frequent flyer. Those little icons are basically the only way you can discern anything as you drown in a browser tab sea of your own making.

Article in Apps

How alert correlation helps Dev and Ops work better together

This is a guest post written by Tiffany Cantle, Senior Marketing Manager at BigPanda. We all need to move fast in order to stay competitive. But the faster things move, the faster things break. While many companies have made great strides towards automating application release and infrastructure management, automation for service assurance has been sorely […]

Article in Agile

Agile portfolio management with Portfolio for Jira and Jira Software

Using both Jira Software and Portfolio for Jira, teams can see whether the day-to-day work they’re doing maps directly to the company’s overall strategy. But people often ask me “well, what happens in Portfolio for Jira and what happens in Jira Software?”. So I decided to throw together a quick diagram to show you how they fit together.

Article in Company news

Diversity in our call for speakers at Atlassian Summit 2016

Preparations are well underway for Atlassian Summit 2016, our annual user conference. Our call for speakers is currently open, and we’re excited to welcome speakers with a range of experience and subject matter expertise to apply for one of our 7 tracks. We’re also excited this year to announce that we’ve re-vamped our speaker selection process, which we think will help us create the strongest, most diverse Summit lineup yet.

Article in Bitbucket

4200 miles, 5GBs, 1 min: cloning with mirrors and Git LFS

Back in January we introduced smart mirroring for Bitbucket Data Center to help distributed teams by reducing clone times (as well as your list of excuses for taking a coffee break – sorry about that). At the same time, we added Git Large File Storage (LFS) for teams who need to work with images, videos, and […]