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Pull Request Merge Strategies: The Great Debate
When a piece of work is complete, tested and ready to be merged back into your main line of development, your team has some policy choices to make. What are your merge strategy options? In this article I’ll explain the possibilities and then provide some notes on how we do it at Atlassian. Hopefully at […]
Fun Fridays: introducing a new era in video
Webinar recap: virtualized agile
A big thank you to Mike Hansen and Mark Kilby at Sonatype for hosting our first customer webinar. They shared the Sonatype story and how the team tackles agile development on a daily basis with a completely distributed team. Our customers are what make Atlassian awesome, and we love hearing their success stories. Here’s a link to watch the webinar again and share with your team. Keep reading for the top 10 questions and answers. Enjoy!
Watch the webinar: practical advice for agile product management
We recently hosted a webinar with two Atlassian product managers called “Practical Advice for Agile Product Management.” Confluence product managers Sherif Mansour and John Masson shared their expertise on the elements that go into building great products, starting with conducting research and customer interviews and concluding with how you can tell a story about your release. We recorded the webinar for any of you that missed it or want to watch it again and share it with your teams.
Pledge 1%: a new model for corporate philanthropy
Back when Atlassian was a very small company, we made a pledge to divert 1% of equity, 1% of product, 1% of profit, and 1% of employee time to charitable causes–a corporate philanthropy model pioneered by Salesforce. We made that pledge publicly so our customers and staff would hold us accountable. And it worked. Twelve years later, we have helped over 250,000 children in the developing world get an education they wouldn’t otherwise have had access to through a partnership with the Room to Read foundation.
Stash 3.5: comment likes, syntax highlighting, and more
Since our last release, the Stash team has been hard at work fixing bugs and adding improvements that will make developers more productive. Today, we’re excited to announce Stash 3.5 with three new features that we hope will delight our users: comment likes, syntax highlighting, and tags in commits list.
Inside Atlassian: seven steps for better retrospectives
Happy December, the time for retrospectives! The end of the year is a time for reflection. For our team, each member considers questions like: What went well? What accomplishments did I make? What do I want to improve on? What did I miss that I want to do next year? That’s right, December is our yearly retrospective! (That’s the cool agile term.) Retrospectives are the meetings held after a sprint, iteration, or release.
How to build a self-service knowledge base
Help yourself, with Jira Service Desk and Confluence. Confluence is the best way to build your team’s knowledge and Jira Service Desk puts that knowledge to work. With the self-serve customer portal, you can help customers help themselves by putting answers directly at their fingertips. This short demo walks you through the seamless integration and shows you how to get going in just a few minutes.
Webinar recap: deflect tickets with a self-service knowledge base
Google taught us that finding answers should be easy. Why should it be any different for your customers? A survey by leading analyst firm Coleman Parkes shows that: 91% of customers say they prefer self-service if it were available and tailored to their needs 40% of customers contact a call center after they can’t find […]
Atlassian Pop-Up Hiring Tour is underway!
If you didn’t catch our announcement, in true Atlassian style, we’ve launched a Pop-Up Hiring Tour around Australia to bring our people, culture, and office directly to you. We’re looking for the best and brightest talent in our own backyard to join our team and help unleash the potential in every team through the power […]
Connect Confluence and Hipchat to take team collaboration to the next level
At Atlassian, Confluence and Hipchat are the glue that connects the people, content, and conversations that drive every team and project forward. You already know that we have Confluence spaces set up to keep every team and major project organized. We also have Hipchat group chat rooms that help facilitate real-time communication for these teams […]
Quick tip: fully automating your Stash deployments
Stash is now called Bitbucket Server. Read our announcement blog. Things are pretty hectic here on the developer advocacy team. We spent last week at Devoxx Belgium in Antwerp, and this week we’ll be jetting around Europe and North America as part of the Getting Git Right tour. But, in the time I’ve had at my desk in […]
Atlassian customers: 40,000 reasons to celebrate
2014 has been a banner year for Atlassian. We introduced Jira Portfolio and Atlassian Enterprise, held our biggest and brightest Summit yet, and opened new offices in Manila and Austin, Texas. There’s another milestone that hasn’t been talked about as much as these others, but is incredibly meaningful for all Atlassians, especially Mike and myself: we now have more than […]
New webinar: Jira + Stash, a love story
Context switching is a productivity killer for development teams of all sizes. In most workflows, issue trackers like Jira record which features have been built, which bugs have been fixed, and what work is scheduled for future releases. Version control systems like Git track the actual code used to bring these bug fixes and features […]