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Atlassian Inspires UK Testing Startup – Behave for Jira

Hindsight is a start-up company focused on building intelligent testing software that supports agile practices such as acceptance testing.  Using the Atlassian Marketplace to enable rapid development of their first tool, Behave for Jira, they had a platform to quickly deliverer a valuable product to a large number of software teams around the world.  Atlassian […]

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The E-mail Culture – Why do people use e-mail to begin with?

This is a guest post by Jacob Morgan, the principal of Chess Media Group, a management consulting and strategic advisory firm on collaboration. Jacob is also the author of the Amazon best-selling book, The Collaborative Organization, which is the first comprehensive strategy guide to emergent workplace collaboration.  The book has been endorsed by leaders such as the […]

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No Pain, More Gain: Updates to the Plugin Manager

If you’ve taken a look at the Administration page in Jira, Confluence, or our developer tools lately, you might have notice that we’ve taken the incredible add-on shopping experience that we launched with the Atlassian Marketplace and baked it right into our products. Friction-free add-on shopping and installation is here(!), thanks to the slew of […]

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Announcing the Codegeist 2012 Winners

Seven short weeks ago, on the first day of Summit, we kicked off Codegeist 2012, our sixth annual add-on development competition. Participants had six weeks to throw together one or more kick-ass add-ons for a chance to win cash prizes totaling $45,000 USD. Codegeist ended last week (16 July). This year’s was, by far, the best Codegeist […]

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More Admin Love – 3 User Management Improvements Coming in Confluence 4.3

Confluence 4.3 has been released. Learn more! The upcoming release of Confluence promises to be one of the biggest releases in Confluence’s history. I might be in marketing but I can assure you that’s no joke. Ryan’s already shared some of the improvements to the editor that make it even eaiser for users to create […]

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Jira 5.1 deep dive – Working with Issues, Faster

The create and edit dialogs in Jira 5 make working with issues faster by letting you see focus on just the fields you care about most and remembering your preferences from one interaction to another. Your current work stays in the background, so you can quickly get back to whatever else you were working on. […]

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Marketplace Monday: Tempo by TM Software

This is the first post in a new Atlassian blog series, Marketplace Mondays. Each week, we profile one great add-on available in the Atlassian Marketplace–where you can try and buy more than a thousand add-ons for Atlassian products. This week, we’re looking at one of the most-downloaded, highest-grossing plugins in the Marketplace: Tempo for Jira, a […]

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Aggregated code coverage using Maven, Clover and Bamboo

This is a guest post from Alex Van Boxel, Software Engineer working at Alcatel-Lucent Antwerp. His pet interests within software are to keep the quality high, smooth running builds and the engineers productive. He believes having the complete Atlassian tool-chain certainly helps.   Finally we got it working… we wanted to know what our total test coverage was on our product with all […]

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Try Jira 5.1 FREE this week in Atlassian University

Atlassian University videos and step-by-step interactive tutorials will get your team up to speed on Jira, fast.   FREE this week only, we’re giving everyone the chance to see Jira’s inline editing in action! Jump over to University to give it a spin: If you have a University account, please login to try out the lessons Otherwise, […]

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GreenHopper Usage Survey Results, June 2012

The @GreenHopperTeam surveyed our customers in June to learn more about how teams are using the product today. We’ve done this in the past and will do it again in the future as it is a great way to see how teams and organisations evolve over time. We use this information to inform our roadmap, so thank […]

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Atlassian plugin training and more at AtlasCamp 2012

Calling all developers! It’s time to brush off those cowboy boots and head on down to AtlasCamp 2012, our annual developer conference. Come connect with Atlassian devs, learn about the newest additions to the Atlassian Marketplace, and perfect your plugin and macro development skills, all with a view of the beautiful California coast. New this […]

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Share Your Evernotes in Confluence with Stiltsoft’s Evernote Plugin

This is a guest post by Maxim Kuzmich, the co-founder of StiltSoft, a small team of “hackers” and fans of products by Atlassian. StiltSoft develops the Talk and InPlace Editor add-ons for Confluence. Get your Evernotes into Confluence Modern business requires you to access information and generate new ideas from anywhere – nearby cafes, while traveling, or even while in a […]

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(Guest Blog) Are There Clouds Hanging Over Your Enterprise?

This is a guest blog post from Tim Madewell, SVP of Services at Innotas, a sponsor at Atlassian Summit 2012. Here at Innotas, we have spoken to a number of customers and prospect who have mentioned having a corporate or IT-driven “cloud initiative.” Upon hearing this, we’ve reflected on the rapid change of cloud solutions from the […]

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Pipe User Feedback Straight To Developers

Listening to your customers, testers, and peers can make the difference between shipping the next killer release or shipping a dud. The Issue Collector in Jira 5.1+ brings developers closer to end user feedback. Getting the details right is the difference between something that delights, and something customers tolerate. – Jeff Atwood The Jira Issue […]

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Making the Switch to DVCS: The Fisheye Teams move from Subversion to DVCS

The Tool is the Easy Part – What about the Processes? The Fisheye team was the first team at Atlassian to make the switch to DVCS, and while some Atlassians had previous DVCS (distributed version control) experience, quite a few had not yet used it in the workplace with a medium-size team of developers before. We looked for […]