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Building a new intranet at Janssen-Cilag using a wiki
Nathan Wallace of Janssen-Cilag has written an excellent case study on their wiki adoption, which Bill Ives picked up on the FastForward Blog. Janssen-Cilag is a pharmaceutical research company with employees in Australia and New Zealand, and is one of 250 operating companies of Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey-based maker of pharmaceutical, medical, and […]
Successful Wikis Need a Purpose and a Strong Core Group
In Wiki is the new FAQ Dennis Howlett looks at the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of wiki use at SAP and Intuit. At SAP, the Developer Network and Business Process Expert communities group found that online forums were inefficient because the same questions were being asked
Marrying Agile/ Scrum with Pragmatic Product Management
As a marketer, I like to think I understand the term Pragmatic Marketing, but it appears the folks at Splunk are taking that term to an entirely new level. Christina Noren, VP Product Management at Splunk, recently wrote a blog post on Automating and opening up product planning. Their product development process was already going […]
Jira, Agile, Scrum, and Pragmatic Marketing
Christina Noren, VP Product Management at Splunk, recently wrote a blog post on Automating and opening up product planning. Their product development process was already going fast, but now they’re going to kick into turbo as they move to a Scrum-based model. Anyone made any similar changes to their product development process? Give Christina a […]
Constitution Celebrates Another Year Today
It’s National Constitution Day today in the USA, and for the second year in a row Atlassian is helping to sponsor the event with the donation of Confluence, our enterprise wiki. We did a case study about the Constitution Center and Constitution Day last year, you can read it here, or click below to see […]
Jira Offers Clarity at ClearStory
Susan Worthy, my manager from a past job at ClearStory Systems, pinged me the other day regarding their development team’s switch to Jira. Somehow, the switch to Jira caught the attention of the CEO and, long story short, Jira went from being just a bug tracker to an entire project management tool. While Susan and […]
Jira and VSS: we need your help
If you’ve been watching the Jira Plugin Library like a hawk, this post will come as no surprise to you. But in case you haven’t, I have an exciting announcement. We’ve just released a beta version of the JIRA-VSS plugin that provide a mapping between Jira Issues and Microsoft’s Visual SourceSafe. This has been a […]
Atlassian Wins SmartCompany 2007 Award
Some good news on the awards front. Atlassian won a 2007 SmartCompany Award on Friday night at an awards ceremony held in Melbourne. The awards celebrate the top 50 fast growing innovative companies in Australia. Among the winners, Atlassian ranked first as the fastest growing company in the list of SmartCompany IT award winners with […]
Releasing Our Inner Geeks at ShipIt VI
Atlassian developers have started to blog about their ShipIt Day projects. Last week, ShipIt VI took place; it’s a semi-regular “open coding” day wherein the developers can work on whatever pet project they’re interested in. The VI designation is a pretty good indicator that it’s been going on for some time. This time around, I […]
Growing, yet staying agile thanks to Confluence and Jira
How does a small organisation remain agile as it grows? One way is by adopting and building work practices around effective tools. Learn some tricks and tips on how Wrycan, a successful small yet growing company, stays afloat without incurring high overhead. This new Atlassian case study showcases how Jira, an issue tracker, and Confluence, […]
ShipIt VI Winner – Jira Caller ID
The Problem Many people have come to know and love Jira as an issue tracker for software development projects. What many people don’t realise is that Jira, with its customisable workflows, is useful for any team that needs to track issues. For example, within Atlassian, we use Jira to: Track support requests from our customers; […]
Caching – Confluence Style
Special thanks to our guest blogger, Dan Hardiker from Adaptavist. Confluence in its naked, default form is nice, fast and responsive from the user’s perspective – but load it up with a few too many plugins and a nice looking theme, and you can soon find yourself waiting eight to ten seconds for a page […]
Upcoming JUGs
Our infant Java user group sponsorship program is growing inch by inch. Last week we added three more Java User Groups to the list of supported JUGs. This list does not include all the Java User Groups that have received a Community License for one or more of our products. Ukraine JUG Bulgarian JUG Hamburg […]
Confluence & Domino at NYK: An Enterprise Wiki Adoption Story
Dennis Howlett recently wrote about how NYK Shipping & Megacarrier is using Confluence and Lotus Domino together to power their intranet. NYK is a global shipping company (one of the world’s largest, in fact), and Alek Lotoczko, who runs the company’s intranet, was looking for a way to increase collaboration after seeing that only about […]
Jira Labels Plugin 2.0
We recently completed a major overhaul of the Jira Labels Plugin with a primary focus on stability and performance. New Atlassian Developer, Rich Wallace (p.s. we’re hiring java developers in San Francisco!) spent several days cleaning things up, and the plugin is more stable and about 1000x faster. We’ve optimized the heck out of our […]