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Should you create a Confluence space for your team or for each project? Part 1 of 2.
This is the first of a two-part blog series about creating team and project spaces in Confluence. You can find the second part here. Confluence is powerful team collaboration software because it’s so flexible. At Atlassian, it’s our company intranet and helps every single team get their work done. Confluence is our heart and soul – where teams work together on […]
A skeptic’s guide to continuous delivery, part 3: real-world pipelines
This is the third in our five-part series from guest blogger J. Paul Reed—build engineer, automation enthusiast, and host of The Ship Show podcast. In the last two articles, we covered the business value proposition for implementing continuous delivery, as well as some areas you’ll need to keep your eye on in your own organization to nurture a transformation towards […]
Introducing new Atlassian Enterprise offerings
Many companies begin their Jira journey by running it on a server under someone’s desk. This is typically a short-lived situation – After someone inadvertently unplugs that machine one too many times, the Jira instance gets moved to the company data center. We hear this story all the time. And for many of the IT […]
A skeptic’s guide to continuous delivery, part 2: the nuts & bolts of CI
This is the second in our five-part series from guest blogger J. Paul Reed—build engineer, automation enthusiast, and host of The Ship Show podcast. Jez Humble, author of Continuous Delivery and one of its founding fathers, has an informal survey he likes to give to audiences. It starts with a simple question: “Raise your hand if you do continuous […]
New webinar! Super-powered CI with Git
You’ve always known that continuous integration (CI) is a critical part of working as a team and shipping great software. Thanks to a dark-arts blend of JUnit, TestNG, and Selenium, you’ve built a deflector shield that keeps bugs at bay. And then it happened: Your team decided to switch to Git. CI was challenging enough […]
Join us: A hackathon for charity in Austin
The Atlassian Foundation’s Make a Diff platform is almost ready to launch, but we need your help. Make a Diff is an online crowdsourcing platform that connects technology volunteers with nonprofit organizations to convert ideas into successful charitable projects. Here’s how it works: Nonprofits list projects such as website development, document management, software customization, or project roadmapping, and […]
A skeptic’s guide to continuous delivery, Part 1: The business case
This is the first post in our five-part series from guest blogger J. Paul Reed – build engineer, automation enthusiast, and host of The Ship Show podcast. Software development is moving towards continuity. The recent emphasis on continuous integration, built-in testing, constant monitoring, and feedback telemetry all point toward an overall trend in the software […]
Guest blog: Using AtlasBoard to create testing boards
This is a guest blog post from Karthik Selvakumar, client services engineer at Zephyr, about extending AtlasBoard – Atlassian’s open source wallboard app – to include test data from the Zephyr for Jira test case management add-on for Jira. What is Atlasboard? Atlasboard is a NodeJS app that allows you to create wallboards. Once you install Atlasboard, you […]
Fisheye and Crucible tips & tricks: my favorite shortcuts
Last week, I was going through some specifications in Confluence with a relatively new Atlassian employee. As he was looking for a page he’d recently worked on, I casually mentioned, “Just hit G then R.” He did, and the Recently viewed pages popup appeared, letting him see all the pages he’d been working on recently. Him: “MATE! […]
3 ways to keep your team on track with tasks in Confluence
We recently released Confluence 5.5 to improve how you create and manage ad-hoc tasks in the flow of your work. Tasks allow your team to stay transparent, accountable, and most importantly, in one place: Confluence. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chL4ONFFkyo?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] 3 ways to use tasks in Confluence We use tasks all the time at Atlassian. Here are three ways […]
Organizing issues with priority to optimize delivery
I’ve had a number of people ask me lately, “How can I use priority to better manage issues inside of Jira Software?” Throughout my career in software, different teams have used priority to communicate different processes inside of their issue tracking systems. Failure to be crisp about the definition of priority makes work more confusing to get done. […]
Stash 3.1: Get more out of your code reviews
Stash is now called Bitbucket Server. Read our announcement blog. In our on-going efforts to continuously provide the best code review experience in Stash, we are excited to deliver two ways for you to better collaborate with your team on code review. From attaching files for more robust code discussions to searching for specific text […]
Do Agile Right Webinar Recap – Q&A with two Atlassian marketing managers
In February, two of our very own Atlassian Confluence product marketing managers, Matt Hodges and John Wetenhall, hosted a live webinar sharing agile best practices for software development that they’ve learned over the years. They talked about: Agile basics like sprint management and retrospectives Planning, communicating, and executing on quarterly goals Making the best use of Jira, Confluence, and Jira Agile […]
DIY service desk – maximizing the value of self-service
Update: DIY service desk webinar recording now available You asked for it, so we’re posting it. Here is the recording from the webinar that took place on July 8th, 2014. We hope you enjoy the recording and please share it with your team to help spread the word on Jira Service Desk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXyM1O9J8w You can also see […]
Atlassian’s commitment to education and the future
Atlassian seeks to advance humanity through the power of software. While our products continue to further us down this road, the Atlassian Foundation takes the mission a step further with the addition of four words: The power of education. Believing deeply in this transformative power of education, the Foundation chooses to support initiatives with education at their […]