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How to run a marketing launch with Jira & Confluence
A marketing launch is a time-boxed project during which the project manager (launch owner) plans, organizes and coordinates activities with several teams, usually engineering, product management, and marketing. As the launch project manager, I’m responsible for tracking activities and tasks and communicating status to stakeholders across the organization. Scheduled items & unstructured content A marketing […]
Confluence 5 Highlights: Automagic Theming
Confluence 5 has been released! There’s good-old-fashioned magic – pulling rabbits out of hats and chopping beautiful women in half – and then there’s “automagic” theming, anything but ordinary magic, coming soon in Confluence 5. 1. Upload your custom site logo A new feature in Confluence 5, you can now upload your own custom site logo […]
GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How To Indicate you are Waiting
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. Here are 3 ways to indicate you are waiting on other work to be done before you start working on your task. Say […]
Stash 2.1: Scratch that itch
Interested in the latest Stash release? Check out What’s New » TL;DR The brand-spanking-new Stash developer site is now online here and documentation for the Stash REST API has touched down here. These updates couldn’t have come at a better time as Atlassian Codegeist has just started (with some serious cash prizes and a category specifically for Stash) so get hacking! A […]
How-to: Building a Company Glossary with Confluence – Part Three
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. This is a guest blog by Charles Hall from OpenBet, a specialist software company that provides gambling and gaming solutions. Maintenance and Re-use […]
Nested BackboneJS Models with Brace
We’re big fans of Backbone here at Atlassian. It’s already used in the majority of our products, and its uptake within the company is increasing. Backbone is unopinionated by design. It tries hard not to get in the way of any competing libraries and frameworks you might be using, or any coding conventions you practice. This […]
Codegeist is Back! Atlassian’s Developer Competition Returns
Codegeist: The Next Generation Codegeist, Atlassian’s add-on development competition, is back on! The seventh iteration of the world’s best development competion began February 1 and goes until May 31. What’s at stake? $65,000 USD in prizes for members of the Atlassian ecosystem, both new and old. This time, we’re giving out a prize for each month of […]
Stash 2.1: Pull Requests, Issues, Builds – Integrated
Pull requests – now at the heart of the code discussion. Ever since we introduced pull requests in Stash 1.3, and added branch permissions in 2.0 that let you restrict who can merge pull requests, we’ve been dreaming up ways to make pull requests even more valuable for developers. With today’s release of Stash 2.1, we’ve […]
Screencast: Agile Best Practices from Code School
Code School is a community of web professionals who use video, in-browser coding, and themed challenges to let you play courses, win badges, and learn by doing. Their 10-15 minute videos are designed to get you up to speed on a concept or practice, teaching web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video […]
The tell-all tale of Bitbucket’s redesign
Redesigning an entire application is a formidable undertaking with many risks and possibilities for failure. Brian Nguyen, one of our developers, already covered the challenges of Bitbucket’s redesign from a technical standpoint. Now, I’d like to share some of the challenges from the design angle, along with how we eventually overcame them.
A little practical GC tuning – on Eclipse
JVM GC tuning is a vast field that books have been written about. Mostly, we’re happy to accept whatever defaults the JVM figures out, at most cranking up heap and permGen size when we’re out of memory (again). I’ve found that with the ScalaIDE plugin installed, Eclipse was so memory-heavy and often still sluggish that […]
Bring Code Quality to Jira with Fisheye and Crucible
“I remember when our team was just two developers…”. Have you made a statement like that recently? At Atlassian our development team grew from 2 guys to now over 300 developers working in different timezones. Collaborating on the code became more complex as the team was growing but the goal always stayed the same: improve […]
Confluence 5 Highlights: 3 Improvements to the Confluence Editor
Confluence 5 has been released! It’s coming. Confluence 5. Our biggest release yet. Packed with major changes that will change the way you work and loaded with the smaller, vital improvements you can’t live with out. It all starts with the Confluence editor. More Reliable than Ever In Confluence 4 we completely overhauled the editing experience. A […]
Improving Agile Estimation via Triangulation
Yves Riel has been exploring Scrum by participating as a team member, a Scrum Master and a Product Owner. He also acts as a Scrum Coach to help teams learn the Scrum methodology. Yves has actively been using Jira and GreenHopper since 2009. Benjamin Franklin once said that there were two certainties in this world: […]
Feel the Love with Bamboo 4.4!
It’s not quite Valentine’s Day, and already, l’amour is in l’air. If you’re not feelin’ it yet, this is the perfect time to check out Bamboo 4.4 – filled to the brim with customer-reported fixes and enhancements. It’s our way of showing that we care. Minus the satin heart-bearing bear. Now don’t laugh when you see […]