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Inside Atlassian: managing agile releases, Stash style
Stash, our Git repository manager, is one of the hottest products at Atlassian. If you follow us on Twitter, you may have noticed that the Stash team delivers new versions about every 5 weeks. That’s as tight a release cycle as it gets for on-premises B2B software! So what is the Stash team’s secret recipe for lighting […]
Announcing Confluence Questions (Beta): Ask once, educate forever
UPDATE: Confluence Questions beta is now available for OnDemand. We are also offering a 25% discount on new Confluence Questions beta purchases through December 31. Read the announcement blog post here. How often do you get asked questions at work via email, chat, or a tap on the shoulder? It happens to me all the […]
Announcing Jira 6.1: Accelerate change
I’m pleased to announce the availability of Jira 6.1. We’ve continued the work in creating a whole new Jira: modern, fast, mobile, and simple. This release focuses on several key areas of the administrator’s workflow, and makes it easier for developers getting started coding. We’ve made it simple to embrace change within your organization with building workflows, […]
Q&A from our Git Ready! Workflows Webinar
Last week, we hosted a webinar on git, focusing on workflows and practices you can adopt when you move to git. We discussed two of the more popular branching models used internally at Atlassian in depth, and gave practical examples on how git can allow you to reduce friction and increase the efficiency of your team. […]
Summit 2013… it was epic
‘Twas the week at Summit And all through the hall Nearly 1,800 creatures, some small and some tall, Had all gathered for the biggest Summit of them all. Wow. What an amazing event. Thank you to everyone who attended, sponsored, presented, and partied with us! We saw a 50 precent increase in attendees this year […]
Fight the dark side of Lean UX with the Experience Canvas
We’ve all been there. Those times where we realise that we’ve been sitting around arguing for hours over the small stuff, because we’ve forgotten about the bigger, more important stuff. Or to bring it into the realm of digital products: whether that interface should still have an accordion menu or should we change it to […]
Make a Diff: A new way to volunteer
One afternoon, Atlassian co-Founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar walked up to my desk and said, “Melissa… the Foundation needs to do something amazing.” No pressure, right? As the one who is responsible for running the Atlassian Foundation, my first thought was, “How do we top what we’re already doing?” The Foundation works on a one percent model, where one percent of profit, employee time, […]
Introducing Jira Service Desk
Today, we’re excited to announce Jira Service Desk – a modern and flexible service desk experience that streamlines customer requests, and boosts your IT team’s efficiency, taking your service desk to a whole new level. Jira Service Desk delivers an intuitive interface, a revolutionary new take on SLAs, customizable team queues, real-time reporting, and more. Improve the productivity of […]
Introducing Confluence 5.3: Turn your knowledge into solutions
Every IT team records knowledge to help people find solutions to everyday issues – step-by-step guides for setting up your laptop, troubleshooting problems like connecting to the company network, or best practices for using the video conferencing equipment. This knowledge is useful, but too often it’s unorganized, poorly formatted, or inaccessible. Not anymore with the knowledge […]
Tips for optimizing Bamboo on a DVCS team, pt. 2
Hello again! Glad to see you’ve come back for more tips on making Bamboo awesome for Git and Hg teams. Today we’ll talk all about tests. Grab a chocolate and get comfortable. Comparing test status against upstream When we left off last time, we were talking about slick ways to manage merges to upstream branches. […]
Atlassian Value #4 – Play as a team (whilst wearing a giant panda head)
Each August, Atlassians around the globe put down their keyboards to celebrate a year of hard work and achievements at the annual Big Bash event. In the past we’ve sailed yachts, joined the circus, become cowboys, and ridden Segways, but with the Sydney office now busting over the 300 staff mark what were we to […]
Rename users in Confluence: Satisfying over 450 customer votes
The user rename problem What’s in a name? The Confluence team found this question to be more than just philosophical while fixing the problem that has been voted up by over 480 customers. The problem was simple. As an admin how can I rename users in Confluence, so that when someone got married, divorced, or […]
Alerts, anomalies & automated canaries at DevOps Dojo hangout #4
For our 4th installment of the DevOps Dojo hangouts, we corralled monitoring mavens from Atlassian, LogicMonitor, Netflix, and Metafor for an hour-long geek-out that got quite animated! Did you know, for example, that the very notion of distinguishing application monitoring from infrastructure monitoring is controversial? I did not. Or ever thought about the effects of […]
Calling all Bay Area Atlassian users!
Local users, get ready! Our fifth annual Summit is just around the corner, and it’s going to be our biggest and best yet. Over 1,600 attendees have signed up, representing 770 companies and 40 countries – and there’s still room for more at the historic Design Concourse in Downtown San Francisco. Come and see how […]
Jira tip of the month: Crowdsourcing issue triage
The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Do you crowdsource issue triage? If you’re like most organizations, the answer is “no” – issue triage and backlog grooming are left to […]