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9 Online Teaching Tools For Modern Educators
Teachable, one of the many online teaching tools, made over $1 billion from sales of courses on their platform at the end of 2020. This figure shows just how big of a deal online education is in today’s world. During the 2020 pandemic, regular operations changed across industries. Introducing modern working methods into every sector, […]
The data doesn’t lie: what we learned when we tried a 4-day workweek
Our team tracked hours worked, team performance, and our well-being. Here’s our story.
5 ways to prevent proximity bias
Alongside returns to office and hybrid work, a discouraging trend emerged in 2021: proximity bias. The majority of knowledge workers are embracing flexible work options, especially with changes caused by the pandemic. But many are worried about their jobs, whether they’ll get promoted, and how they can demonstrate how valuable they are. One study found […]
How to write a project status report that works for your team
When you’re juggling multiple projects with several stakeholders, it’s easy for things to feel out of control. You try to rein it in with strict deadlines, frequent meetings, and maybe even a bit of micromanaging. But what if the fix were as simple as a one-page document?
How to Ask (The Right) Questions At Work
Afraid to ask questions at work? You’re not alone. In a recent study conducted by Harvard Business Review of 3000 employees, a whopping 70% reported they face barriers to asking more questions at work. One of the barriers? Fear of rejection and ridicule at work. You want to seem competent, in-control, and on top of […]
Skip the screens: 3 ways old-school practices can help you work better
Maybe the Next Big Thing has been there all along…
What is Microlearning: Bite-sized video learning
The average human now has an attention span of only 8.25 seconds. That’s less than a goldfish. And with decreasing attention spans comes the need to create educational content that your employees or students can easily consume while still getting full knowledge. Which is where microlearning comes in. Microlearning is a simplified form of learning […]
How we started a No Meeting Day at Loom
The last few years have brought massive changes to the work world. Even before the pandemic, companies were starting to turn towards more flexibility, more remote and hybrid work, and more… meetings. Prior to the pandemic’s acceleration of overwhelming meeting culture, 71% of managers said meetings were “costly and unproductive.” And since the onset of […]
Announcing macOS Runners in Bitbucket Pipelines
We are happy to announce that Bitbucket Pipelines now supports macOS self-hosted runners. We have moved from beta to an official release. You can now create a self-hosted runner and run it on your macOS infrastructure to run macOS and iOS builds. Since you’re using your own runner, you won’t be charged for Bitbucket Pipelines […]
Forge the Future of Teamwork — Codegeist 2022 is Live!
Get ready, get set, Codegeist! Codegeist, Atlassian’s annual developer hackathon, is now open. Compete with thousands of developers from across the globe to build solutions for IT, DevOps, or Business teams in hopes of winning BIG with $300,000 in cash prizes. Whether you enter with a team or solo, unleash your potential by building custom […]
5 mobile app features to help you work on the go
You’d be hard pressed to find a knowledge worker whose method of working hasn’t evolved over the last couple years. The concept of “office” has taken on an amorphous state of being—the choice of where and how to work is now left up to the individual.
Migrating complex CI/CD workflows in Bitbucket Cloud
In late 2021, we fully migrated Bitbucket Cloud from a data center to AWS to improve reliability, security, and performance. One of our focus areas in this massive project was migrating complex CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) workflows to Bitbucket Pipelines. We wanted to optimize release times and eliminate inefficiencies so we could provide […]
How to write an effective team meeting agenda (with templates!)
Because if there’s no agenda, there shouldn’t be a meeting in the first place.
How cloud has transformed the state of hybrid work
Businesses unlock more value through the adoption of cloud technologies.