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Connecting Statuspage incidents and components
The Incident and Component status workflows are now unified in Statuspage, meaning easier incident communication and fewer steps to get status updates to the right people. When creating a new incident, you’re now asked to flag the components that correspond to that incident. This aims to make sure your page is always an accurate reflection […]
Watch this! New look, watch repos, and unicorns in Bitbucket 5.10
Does it ever feel like the codebase you work in (or its core dependencies) can change in the blink of an eye? As soon as you’ve moved to the latest version, a new stable release comes out. It’s even more frustrating when it happens inside your company. Sure, it might come up during daily standup… […]
Why Signiant uses Statuspage instead of a DIY tool
As both a provider and a consumer of Software as a Service, the DevOps team at Signiant knows the value of communicating the right information during incidents. Since 2000, Signiant has helped companies of all types and sizes move large files fast. Initially adopted by the Media and Entertainment industries, many of the world’s top […]
7 pros and cons of open workspaces—and how to compensate for them
Anna Johansson is a writer, researcher, and business consultant who is passionate about helping everyone do their best work. Her work has been featured in Entrepreneur and on Business.com. More and more, work culture gravitates toward openness, collaboration, and transparency. You can see it in the increased number of open-office layouts (despite some recent pushback) […]
Better visibility with improved audit log in Crowd 3.2
Always trying to see what changes were made to users in your systems, who made them, and when? Maybe you’ve set up automated synchronizations that occasionally cause an unplanned change, like deleting a user. In any case, you’ve most likely identified an incorrect change and then spent hours investigating why and how it happened. When […]
Jira super users: get Atlassian Certified in less than 60 days
Are you a skilled power user who lives in Jira day in and day out? Do you know how to configure projects and boards, customize workflows, and manage project permissions in your organization’s Jira Server (or Data Center) instance? Can you help scale your instance to meet the demands of your business, so your Jira […]
How to choose the best methods of estimation for planning
This article was written with Jacek Wizmur-Szymczak of Spartez. Every planning or grooming session, where team members meet to estimate stories and work items, has its own rules. Sometimes we haven’t estimated for a long time, the backlog is huge, and time is limited. Sometimes we have a team that can meet in the same office, […]
Providing proactive support through Intercom and Statuspage
Since the start of Statuspage, two of our core tenants have been: Keep end users in the loop during downtime. Reduce the support load on incident response teams. At a minimum, this means giving end users a status page they can depend on and allowing them to subscribe to incident notifications via email and SMS. […]
Forecast realistically with Portfolio for Jira Server’s API
For many agile development teams, accurate planning often comes down to capacity management. Portfolio for Jira lets you visualize cross-team capacity through a data-driven roadmap built on top of Jira Software data. The scheduling works according to available team capacity, but we’ve heard from many of you that scheduling could be improved if say, you were able to connect Portfolio […]
6 ways to integrate a data strategy into your workflow
This article was written with Looker, a business intelligence software and big data analytics platform that helps you explore, analyze, and share real-time business analytics easily. Most organizations only use a fraction of available data. Integrating a data strategy into your team’s development workflow is key to making sure data and insights are actionable where […]
7 excellent maintenance page examples from real websites
Nobody likes an unavailable website. But if you must take your site offline, a clear and well-designed maintenance page can turn around a bad experience.
Downtime and taxes: an open letter to the IRS
Dear IRS, We imagine that Tax Day during the best of times is extremely hectic, so we can’t even imagine what your past 24 hours has been like. First off, we wanted to send you some massive #HugOps from all of us at Statuspage – we know how stressful unplanned downtime can be. Our bread […]
Why ageism could be keeping you from your best teamwork
The irony of ageism: insulting our future selves.
Introducing the Confluence Cloud app for Stride
Messaging is just not the best place for a full-length blog post, in-depth project review, or documentation article — but Confluence is. Confluence’s open and shared workspace helps teams connect and stay organized, and is perfect for anything from product roadmaps to creative briefs. In short, Confluence helps everyone collaborate on long-form content. The new Confluence Cloud app for […]
How the best teams in the world run on Jira Software
Great software teams around the world all share a common goal: to build products that users will love. The majority also have something else in common: tens of thousands of teams rely on Jira software every day to plan, track, and release their products. But the composition of each of those teams, how they work […]
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