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Do you have the ping pong skills?
Friendly competition is a staple at Atlassian. From Halloween costume and gingerbread contests, skeet shooting, poker game nights, spur of the moment foot races and even departmental competitions regarding work, Atlassians make any situation and challenge fun. When we moved to our new office in San Francisco, our brand new foosball and ping pong tables got heavy use. Naturally, […]
Team Calendars 2.1 Released – Faster, Cleaner, More Discoverable
The Team Calendars development team is addicted to speed. Uh…well…no…well, not that kind of speed….what I mean is, the Team Calendars development team is addicted to putting new features into the hands of its customers, fast. There we go, let’s cut to the chase. We’re excited to announce that our next major release – Team Calendars 2.1 – is available to try now. […]
Bonfire 2.1 – Amazing Annotations for Agile Defect Prevention
Our goal with Bonfire is to help you deliver quality working software to your customers. Agile defect prevention is an approach whereby you find and address bugs before your customers experience them. Bonfire facilitates agile defect prevention and provides confidence that you are delivering quality working software to your customers. Bonfire helps you deliver quality working […]
New University lessons for GreenHopper 5.9… and Jira 5
We are now happy to announce new University lessons for GreenHopper 5.9. Last month we released GreenHopper 5.9. Our latest update makes GreenHopper even better for iteration planning (Scrum) and managing your flow (Lean / Kanban). Some new features include: – A story point burndown chart for the current sprint – The marker updates the […]
Your ticket to Atlassian #Summit12
Dying to come to Atlassian Summit, but spent all your money on Mega Million lottery tickets? Need an excuse to travel to San Francisco for a chilly summer break? Upload a short video to YouTube that explains why you’re hankering to attend our epic conference. Atlassian will choose the most convincing pitch and reward the […]
How Gliffy is managing the risk of re-writing their product in HTML5
This is a guest blog post by Chris Kolhardt, CEO and Founder of Gliffy, a tool that makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate on a wide range of diagrams. In this post Chris shares the process, risks, and rewards of migrating away from the outdated technology that powers the editor in Gliffy Confluence Plugin, a web based […]
Create Structured Content with Ease in Confluence 4.2
Confluence 4.2 hit the streets last week and is generating a lot of buzz. It’s taken content collaboration to new heights. It’s never been easier to create compelling content, encourage others to contribute, and discover the content you need to get your job done. Content collaboration is a viral cycle of creation, engagement, and discovery. It’s a cycle that […]
GreenHopper 5.9.4 – Make Agile your home
Over the past 45 days we have released GreenHopper 5.9, 5.9.1 and 5.9.3. Today I am excited to announce GreenHopper 5.9.4 which includes the ability to make GreenHopper your home within Jira. GreenHopper 5.9 marked the introduction of the Rapid Board for Scrum into GreenHopper Labs, our proving ground for new functionality. Today we’re giving early […]
ShipIt 19 Winners and Finalists
Now that Confluence 4.2 is in the hands of our customers, I would like to report back on what was an awesome ShipIt. In late February we celebrated ShipIt 19. We decided to do something a little different. We took the original ShipIt formula and gave it a twist UX pizaz. Participants were encouraged to […]
April 13, Henceforth, Atlassian Day in San Francisco (No, really!)
Some of you may know that we recently celebrated our 10-year birthday. You might also know that we moved into our brand new offices in San Francisco – 45,000 square feet of awesomeness that really makes coming to work a ton of fun. (More on the office in a future post). Anyway, we’re celebrating that fabulous combo with […]
Webinar Recording: Confluence as a Platform for Technical Documentation
Thanks to everyone who joined us for yesterday’s webinar – Confluence as a Platform for Technical Documentation – hosted by Sarah Maddox of Atlassian with special guests Darryl Duke of StepStone Technologies and Tobias Anstett of K15t Software. Relive the Webinar We took the liberty of recording the webinar for those that couldn’t attend. Sit back and relax […]
What are people saying about Confluence 4.2?
It’s been barely 24 hours since we released Confluence 4.2, our first release for the 2012 calendar year. Packed full of new features and improvements, it takes content creation and discovery to new heights, helping users make sense of information overload. We’ve been stoked with the response Confluence 4.2 has received so far. What’s the word […]
Atlassian Devs Talking Jira Mobile Connect on iDeveloper Live Podcast
UPDATED: The recording of iDeveloper Live Episode 50 featuring Jira Mobile Connect is now available for download and on iTunes. We launched Jira Mobile Connect (JMC), a free library for Jira that allows mobile developers to gather in-app feedback from their users, back in October 2011. Then, we introduced iPad compatibility and HockeyApp integration for JMC in January 2012, so that developers […]
Performance and scale testing with the Jira Data Generator plugin
The Jira Data Generator helps create large Jira test instances that can be used for performance and scalability testing. It quickly generates random metadata (projects, workflows, statuses, custom fields, etc) and random test data (issues, edits, comments, issue transitions etc) spread over a user defined time period. Warning: Do not use this plug-in on a […]
On Conference Talks
My last few weeks have been consumed by conferences — hosting, attending, speaking at, and planning for. As a developer I appreciate not only great technical talks, but also great speakers who can deliver them. I’ve been attending (and sometimes speaking at) tech conferences since the late 90s, but it wasn’t until the Web 2.0 […]