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The challenges of scaling software development teams globally: pt. 1

Atlassian is a unique software company: we use our own products just as much as our 40,000+ customers do. And like so many of our customers, we experience the same growing pains that many software companies face, especially when it comes to scaling. Why? Because Atlassian went from one small team in Sydney, to over 1,300 people […]

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Tempo Books: new professional services automation add­-on for Jira

This April, Tempo released Tempo Books, a modern and flexible professional services solution on top of Jira. Tempo Books for Jira is built on years of experience and customer feedback. As a result, our add-on is designed to address the unique requirements of professionals using Jira and Jira Agile for their sold services and client projects.

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Tips for agile product management

At Atlassian, we pride ourselves on building great products. We rely on our fantastic product managers and product owners to lead the product design process. We’re also strong advocates of agile methodologies for software development, and love to share what we learn about agile with all of you. We’re excited to bring it all together […]

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Automated Work Log for Jira: keeping time so you don’t have to

You’ve been working through an issue all morning and you suddenly realize you forgot to log the time you started. Oops. If you’re like a lot of people who can’t even remember what they had for breakfast, keeping track of a precise start time can feel hopeless. Automated Work Log for Jira, from Gebsun Support, may not spark your memory, but it could save your bacon next time.

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Inside Atlassian: how the Portfolio for Jira team uses Portfolio for Jira

Long-term planning and agile: is it really possible? [cta] Even when using an agile approach, there’s still a need to forecast over a long time period. The challenge is to combine both a long-term vision and frequent, continuous delivery along the way. We tend to find that a lot of teams using Jira are actually tracking their long-term […]

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Assign, discuss, done: more Jira + Hipchat goodness

Together, Jira and Hipchat eliminate shoulder tapping while ensuring that agile teams can collaborate and communicate in real-time. Team members get the information they want, when and where they want it. Does it get any better than that?

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Confluence 101: the 5 things I wish I knew sooner about creating pages

Here are five great tips for creating Confluence pages that I’ve learned (and wish I knew sooner) while using Confluence as the primary tool for working with my team.

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Jira Portfolio: the fundamentals

[cta]Getting started with anything new can be tricky, but getting the fundamentals right makes it a lot easier! For Jira Portfolio, the fundamentals begin with initiatives and themes, so we’ll start with those. Introducing initiatives We talk lots about initiatives and how they give you that cross-team and cross-project view, but what are they, actually? Initiatives are […]

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How to be a super user when working with Atlassian Support

If you’re an Atlassian customer and have ever needed to contact Atlassian Support for your queries/issues, then read on… Have you wondered why your conversation seemed less effective while other customers are going ga-ga over Atlassian support? Do you feel it takes a while for investigation on an issue to take flight? Do you feel that you need to answer a number of questions every time before getting the answer for yours? Before we get into the details of why you may feel this way, lets take a look at some fun facts…

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Confluence 101: using pages (so the dog can’t eat your homework)

The second Confluence 101 article talks about creating content with pages. It’s meant to give you the foundation necessary for confidence and success creating useful Confluence pages. The article covers the basic concepts of pages, some best practices, and tips and tricks.

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Stash levels up deployment flexibility with AWS support

Flexibility is an important consideration for all professional teams, whether it concerns infrastructure, workflow, or scalability needs. It’s a factor that is always first and foremost for us when we’re building products and it’s something our customers have come to know and love about Atlassian. With respect to infrastructure in particular, these needs are changing. Gone are the days when on-premise solutions were the status quo – with the advent of affordable, secure, and scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, we’re now seeing a trend towards deployments in the cloud or a hybrid mix of both.

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Happy birthday, Git! Cheers to 10 years

Dear Git, Watching you grow up over the last 10 years has been quite the journey. When your creator, Linus Torvalds, first announced you were coming into this world after only three days of coding, we had no idea how big of an impact you would have on all of our lives. You allow teams […]

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3 steps to taming technical debt with Jira

Learn how to reduce technical debt.

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Get started with these Jira Portfolio demo videos

Are you using Jira Portfolio but unsure about where to start? Or maybe you’re not using Jira Portfolio but want to see how it works? Good news! We’ve created a series of Jira Portfolio demo videos to teach you the fundamentals so you can get your projects into Jira Portfolio in no time. There are 9 videos in total (whoa!) but each one is only 3 to 5 mins long (phew!). If you’re new to Jira Portfolio, we recommend watching them in order.

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Bitbucket snippets for teams are here with a rich set of APIs

We’re thrilled to announce Snippets, available now in Bitbucket, where you can create and manage multi-file snippets of all kinds. We took a different approach than standard pastebin or gist and we built Snippets around teams. Snippets can be shared with your team, made private to you, or fully public; you control read and write privileges. If you create a snippet owned by your team, the snippet will stay with the team forever, even after you leave that team.