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How does Jira help you? Tweet it and you could win an iPad Mini
Jira helps NASA send Rovers to Mars. It helps Audi design high-end automobiles. It even helped one Atlassian prepare for a new family member. How does Jira help you? We’ve heard our share of quirky Jira use cases – and we can’t get enough of them. Does Jira help you manage legal requests? Log movie reviews? […]
7 new year’s resolutions for team collaboration in 2014
The new year is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It’s the reason your gym is so crowded with people you’ve never seen before. Here are a couple resolutions you should consider making with your team so you can work better together in 2014. 1. Centralize your team’s information Regardless of what team […]
Atlassian Foundation in Cambodia: Next steps for girls’ education
A team of 11 Atlassians visited Cambodia to further our efforts in rebuilding education there. This is a continuing post in our series on the Atlassian Foundation’s contributions to Room to Read in Cambodia. Read more in the series here. When I reminisce about my time at the University of Texas, I remember being president of my sorority, having fun at […]
Car accident? Jira to the rescue!
This is a guest blog from Kepler-Rominfo, makers of the JJUPIN scripting add-on for Jira. What do cars and Jira have in common? Here in Romania, Jira has a lot to do with car accidents. Don’t worry, distracted drivers aren’t causing pileups while filing Jira issues from their mobile phones (at least as far as […]
Case study: Why did LogicSpot go Jira?
What does Jira have in common with a London pub? According to LogicSpot Director Mark Haller, more than you might think. LogicSpot, a UK-based website design and development firm, had been using spreadsheets for years to manage its development process when it decided to ditch them for Atlassian products. Mark and his team adopted Atlassian products […]
3 ways to ease external collaboration tension with Jira
Information is power. When everyone’s priorities are clear, we can make better decisions for our project and the organization as a whole. Once upon a time at an old job, I needed a considerable amount of the IT group’s time to help me get a new CRM server up and running for my project. I often […]
Top 10 Confluence highlights of 2013
As another bumper year comes to an end I thought it fitting to recap all the happened in the world of Confluence in 2013. We’ve shipped tons of releases in the last 12 months that included new features like Blueprints to improvements to existing features like Search in Confluence 5.3, all of which help our 15,000+ customers worldwide get more value out of Confluence than ever before. In addition to seven major releases of Confluence and Team Calendars we expanded the Confluence family with an all-new add-on – Confluence Questions. Needless to say, 2013 has been our biggest year yet and we’re not slowing down. Let’s countdown the top 10 highlights of Confluence in 2013.
Use Git even if your team doesn’t: git-svn tips and tricks
Before joining Atlassian, I’d been working on various projects that still used Subversion (SVN) as their version control system. I had moved to Git already years before, and I wanted to keep using it as much as possible. Luckily I could use git-svn: An incredibly complete solution to interact with Subversion repositories without leaving the comfort […]
Capacity planning in Jira for teams with specialists
For many teams becoming agile is a journey, not a point-in-time transition. While many teams share similarities, each team is unique in its skills and relationships. [cta]In this article, I’d like to focus on teams that have specialized skill sets; teams that can benefit from capacity planning, which ensures that there is the right amount […]
Building a better robot
What if we could respond to emergencies better? What if the obstacles that put human beings in danger – fire, structural collapse, radiation – were less of an issue, and more lives, property, and wildlife could be saved? This is the thinking behind the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), which Atlassian Developer evangelist Tim Pettersen is competing in […]
Happy Holidays from the Stash team!
On the Stash team, we are focused on building high-quality software. From mandatory code reviews to continuous performance testing to automated test suites, we take pride in ensuring that every release of Stash (14 in the past year and half) is the best product built in the best way. Why? We want to continuously improve […]
Inside Jira Service Desk: reports
A look inside Jira Service Desk This is part four of a blog series taking an inside look at Jira Service Desk, the newest member of the Jira family. Jira Service Desk is a modern and flexible service desk experience that integrates directly with Jira, our issue management software used by more than 22,000 teams worldwide. For a full […]
Inside Atlassian: the Jira QA process, techniques and tools
This post is part of a series of blogs on Atlassian QA. We will cover how the QA strategy has been implemented in different teams, the tools and techniques we use, and the personal experiences from members of the team. The Jira engineering team is large, consisting of 78 developers and team leads, 10 product managers, […]
How we manage Atlassian blogging with Jira Agile
Atlassian has a very prolific blogging schedule, which includes 12 different blog categories with unique owners, and dozens of authors scattered throughout the company. Today we’ll take a look at how the content manager uses Jira and Jira Agile to stay on top of everything. Keeping pace with the blogging schedule is all about flow. […]
Automate your standup and wallboard with Crontabs
On the Atlassian Marketplace team, we have a daily standup at 10:30 a.m Pacific. With one permanently remote team member, we were having to manually start a Google Hangout on the wallboard every morning. To make matters worse, our standup music was played by a small app which pulled the wallboard out of fullscreen mode. […]