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QA Webinar: ‘How to Deliver Quality Assurance at Speed’ recap
We hosted the Jira QA webinar for an APAC audience in September and a surprising number of attendees were from North America and Europe. Because of its popularity we decided to replay the webinar and host two live Q&A sections with Michal Kujalowicz, a Jira QA team lead, on December 9th for North American and […]
Getting the right data from your users to ease developer pain
Collecting the right information from the start makes interactions between the development team and issue reporters much easier. In this article, I’ll share a few ways you can help ease developer pain with Jira Software. Successful product teams incorporate user feedback throughout their entire development cycle. Product owners meet with customers, and development teams respond to […]
New webinar: Git workflows for SaaS teams
If you’re new to Git, or are looking to make the switch, you might have a sneaking suspicion that your old development workflow from the SVN days isn’t, well… working. You’re not alone. When teams at Atlassian moved to Git, we had to re-design our developer workflows from the ground up. Now these workflows are used to continuously […]
Bash Vulnerability and Atlassian
Following the disclosure of CVE-2014-6271, we have updated Bitbucket to address this possible issue by ensuring bash is not used. All other Atlassian products and services, including Stash, have been tested and are not affected. No Atlassian Server products are affected by this bug.
Webinar: Setting up Confluence for success
One of the most common questions we hear from new customers is, ‘Where do I start?’ Confluence is one of the most powerful and flexible collaboration platforms available and setting it up so that your team can get the most out of it is key to productivity. Watch, learn, and share There is not one secret to setting up your […]
TAM Day: Top 5 best practices at enterprise scale
Summit 2014 has officially ended and, with over 2,100 attendees, was our biggest annual conference yet. One of my favorite additions to Summit this year was an event hosted by the Technical Account Management team, TAM Day at Summit. An exclusive event for TAM customers, TAM Day provided them the chance to meet with Atlassian product and support leadership, and exchange ideas […]
5 tips to make your Git repos CI-friendly
If you follow Atlassian, you know we’re big on continuous integration (“CI”) and Git–separately, sure: but even bigger on the power that the two offer in combination. Today I want to share some tips for getting your CI system to interact optimally with your repository, which is where it all begins. 1: Avoid tracking large files in your […]
Answers, meet Questions
For the first time in Atlassian’s history, we’re proud to announce that our online customer community, Atlassian Answers is now powered by our very own software, Confluence Questions. So what? Three years ago, we launched a public facing question and answer community, Atlassian Answers, built on heavily customized open source software to replace our old community […]
Announcing Jira Portfolio: View, plan, & manage initiatives
Update: Jira Portfolio is now available for both Jira Cloud and Jira Server. I’m excited to announce a new member to the Jira family: Jira Portfolio. As agile methodology becomes the development pattern of choice for many teams, challenges ensue when scaling agile across the business. Development teams need to communicate status, progress and forecasts throughout the development cycle. Program managers […]
Clover 4 – see the greatest UI change ever
Like an ogre One of my colleagues had an opportunity to work closely with Clover’s HTML code coverage report. After several days, he stated: “Do you know? Clover’s HTML report is like an ogre from the Shrek movie – it is composed of layers. Every time I thought I already learned this report, I was discovering […]
Confluence 5.6: Small improvements that make a big impact
Confluence 5.6 brings one big change for enterprise customers, plus a number of small improvements for everyone. We launched a new deployment option, Confluence Data Center, for those running Confluence at large scale. We also added two new Jira charts and satisfied over 1,200 customer votes with improvements everyone will enjoy. New insightful Jira charts Confluence 5.4 was all […]
Jira Service Desk customer stories: Vistaprint
From over twenty services to one powerful international service desk – in just five weeks From business cards to T-shirts to personalized phone cases, Vistaprint is the one-stop-shop for customized promotional material. With over 4,600 employees across three manufacturing facilities and 22 offices worldwide, Vistaprint’s service desk needs to stay up and running 24/7. Still, the team struggled to find a service desk […]
Introducing Team Calendars 5: Build your schedule with custom event types
In our last major release, Team Calendars 4, we moved away from calendar types to event types so that you could centralize your team’s schedule into fewer calendars. Shortly after the release, a feature request for custom event types was logged on our public issue tracker (about one year ago). We had no idea it would gain so much […]
Playing as a team during ShipIt. The agile way.
Sometimes, especially under pressure, we can lose focus on what’s really important. During this ShipIt, our 24-hour hackathon, we maintained our focus on delivering the highest value first. We used agile methodologies in the most effective way we could (yes, in a period of less than 24 hours), so: The plan We had a backlog (which consisted of Post-Its on a whiteboard). Every […]
Stash 3.3: Track your pull request progress with tasks
Stash is now called Bitbucket Server. Read our announcement blog. The Stash & Bitbucket team is excited to announce the release of pull request tasks – the perfect way to stay on top your pull request progress. When a pull request is created, we know it’s only just the beginning of an iterative process. A […]