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Why the “one size fits all” mentality in IT must go away
When I visit wiki users in organizations, I often hear stories about how the wiki was brought in by someone who saw the value in using it, and began a grassroots movement to spread awareness and use of it. Not the orthodox way to bring a tool into an organization, because it often leaves IT […]
Atlassian Agile Process part 2
XP Practices Automated Testing, The Planning Game, Pair Programming and Stand Up Meetings at Atlassian’s Sydney development group.
The Remote Import Plugin
If you have multiple instances of Confluence running within your company, there was no easy way to move a space or a group of users from one instance to another. Until now.
Business and IT must work together for success with Web 2.0
Dennis McDonald and Jeremiah Owyang write that to successfully use Web 2.0 tools, business and IT must work together. The kicker: this was written in January 2006. It’s an excellent post that I just stumbled on today and its points are so good that it’s just as true today as it was almost two years […]
Connecting the Dots – Collaboration Goes Down Under to Meet Testing
How do Atlassian tools work together, especially with the recently acquired Fisheye, Crucible and Clover? You’re not the only one mulling this over. In fact, that’s exactly what reporter Jonathan Erickson of Dr. Dobbs Portal was wondering during a recent interview with Pete Moore, Clover Product Manager. Pete explains the integration through real-life scenarios: To […]
Brian Solis: Companies need proactive, sincere conversationalists
Brian Solis writes about Apple’s handling of the negative reaction surrounding the iPhone price drop, and this quote about the importance of community evangelists stands out: “Aside from strategic PR and investor relations, companies also need a Guy Kawasaki-like community evangelist to engage in conversations and participate in all important forms of social media. It’s […]
Jira Plugins and the Jira Platform
“I forgot my mantra” This blog post began as a list of some of the latest third-party Jira plugins, but turned into more of discussion about the success of Jira as a platform. It seems like every software or SaaS company is out to not only build end-user applications, but also software platforms. The mantra […]
Plugging Memory Leaks in Confluence
Recently the Confluence team became aware that our public facing instance, http://confluence.atlassian.com was slowly leaking memory. This blog entry is the story of how we found and fixed the leaks. What makes us think there’s a leak? The initial reason we thought there might be a memory leak was that there were OutOfMemoryErrors occurring semi-regularly. […]
Confluence 2.6 Ships!
Atlassian is proud to announce the latest version of Confluence, the enterprise wiki. Confluence 2.6 offers user-friendly UI changes, including a new theme with a fresh look and feel. Additional new features include default content for spaces, template labels, official MySQL 5.0 support, PDF export of images and default bundling of the social bookmarking plugin. […]
Confluence and Jira – Tools for Distributed Developement
Want a view into how a global company uses a wiki as their intranet? Check out Jason Mawdsley’s article Tools for Distributed Development, which reveals just that and more, including best practices. Jason works at Macadamian Technologies, where Confluence has become a vital part of their everyday world. The wiki makes it easy […]
Atlassian Support iHire Program
Do you have a friend that lives to solve technical problems? Does this friend have Java/J2EE experience, excellent communication skills and a strange penchant for obscure post-modern literature? Please note, a great sense of humor may be substituted for strange penchants. Atlassian’s San Francisco office is looking for support engineers — the kind of support […]
Atlassian Agile Process part 1
Atlassian adopts a range of development process elements with a strong focus on Agile methods. In practice each product team defines their own process while also attempting to learn from other teams. In Jira and Confluence, the two largest teams pushing roughly 10 developers each, the process is a fairly complete adoption of Scrum plus […]
See You at JavaPolis
We’re going to be attending JavaPolis again this year. Mike will be giving some talks about our products with regards to continuous integration and code review. We’re also going to staff a booth to demo all our products. Javapolis, in Antwerp every December, is the largest gathering of Java developers outside of JavaOne. Last year, […]
More GreenHopper: video demo
I should have included this in my post yesterday about GreenHopper, but they have a great demo reel on their website. Click the image to watch:
Atlassian Wiki Usage Statistics
A commenter on a previous blog post asked how much use the Atlassian internal wiki gets. I have no idea if these statistics will be interesting to anyone, but somebody asked, right? A bit of background first. Our internal Confluence instance has been running since late 2003, back when Atlassian had a staff count in […]