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How Thrillist merged into Group Nine Media and scaled its planning process with Portfolio for Jira
Aligning plans across an organization, staying up to date on progress, and then communicating that progress to stakeholders – simple, right? Anyone who has been tasked with this responsibility across multiple teams knows there’s often pain associated with it. Once upon a time, the way that Thrillist dealt with this challenge was by entering issues […]
Feeling scattered? Regain your focus with these 5 rituals
If there’s anyone out there not feeling dizzy after a topsy-turvy 2017, I’ll eat my hat. (Also, would you please share the secret to your serenity?) Between the debate over remote work, Facebook’s near-daily changes affecting branded content, and the fact that robots might take our jobs, we’re being pulled in a hundred different directions. Not to […]
Coming from Hipchat? What to know and <3 in Stride
Hi, Hipchat friends! We’re so happy you’re checking out Stride. Whether you know it or not, you’ve been instrumental in making Stride come to life. All features, designs, and functionality were created with you in mind. Stride has all the features you relied on in Hipchat Cloud, like group chat, direct messaging, and video chat. […]
Get your priorities in order this new year with Jira Service Desk Server 3.10
Since the announcement of priority schemes in Jira Software Server 7.6, the Jira Service Desk team has been working hard to bring priority schemes to Jira Service Desk. Today, we’re super excited to announce the release of Jira Service Desk Server 3.10, with the introduction of priority schemes, better notification management (the #1 voted issue on our public issue tracker) […]
4 Atlassian tips to bring your service and development teams together
We’ve been hard at work for over 15 years building software to help you collaborate better. But if you work on an IT or customer support team, you know it takes more than the right software to build a culture of collaboration between your service teams and dev teams. You also need to have a set of […]
Estimation best practices with Portfolio for Jira
Many teams struggle with estimation – if they estimate at all. It’s no great surprise why, there are often unknowns about what’s going to be built and the estimation process itself is time consuming. All the discussion, all the questions – would you prefer your team talk about new features, or actually build them? Have […]
Update on Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities
In the first week of January 2018, a number of computer chip manufacturers confirmed critical vulnerabilities in their processors. Under certain circumstances these vulnerabilities, named Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715), can allow an attacker to steal sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, and gain elevated privileges to client and server software. Since the publication […]
We made a data visualization of our org chart and it looks surprisingly like a human heart
At Atlassian, we’re constantly studying teamwork. In that research, we know it’s best to start with ourselves; to understand how our teams work together first before applying our knowledge elsewhere. As a data scientist, I naturally turned first to our data. I wanted to create a network graph visualization of our company in order to […]
Groom your backlog like a boss with Jira Software
How many times have you heard — or said — this? It’s so easy to let the projects, requests, and bugs pile up in your backlog until you can’t even remember what these tickets were in the first place. And it can feel like an impossible task to even sort through them: prioritizing what to […]
Introducing Long-Term Support releases for Jira Software and Confluence
Upgrading to a new product release is a process that might seem like routine housekeeping, but, as our seasoned Atlassian administrators know, can have a number of complexities and require plenty of strategy and foresight. Between apps and the (sometimes) tens of thousands of end users you have, the prospect of upgrading to a new […]
Why every Atlassian administrator should get certified in 2018
The beginning of the year is the usual time to reflect on past accomplishments and set goals for the year ahead, both personally and professionally. The personal goals seem to come more naturally: be healthier, travel more, get organized. But when it comes to professional goals, it can often be harder to come up with […]
Team building, in prison
This month, 50 Atlassians participated in a rather unique team-building day. We went to prison. As part of taking the Pledge 1% pledge, Atlassian gives 1% of employee time to social causes. That translates into roughly 5 days each year that Atlassians use for all manner of social good – volunteering at a food bank, […]
Scale modern CI/CD with Bamboo 6.3
Implementing continuous integration at scale is essential to scaling your overall DevOps practice. The tools and technology you use shouldn’t hinder your ability to scale these practices alongside your business. We’ve recently introduced capabilities that allow you to scale your DevOps practices using modern CI/CD and today we’re excited to announce 500 and 1,000 agent tiers in […]
How emotionally intelligent leaders build a culture of trust (and why!)
Trust makes doing your job as a leader easier in just about every way imaginable. You don’t have to read up on all the theories around this. You can feel it in your gut. Personally, I know I’ve performed far better under a manager I trusted compared to one that didn’t have my best interests […]
How healthcare is using Hipchat Data Center for reliable communication
Many teams use Hipchat for work that has a positive impact on the world. Teams within the healthcare industry are a prime example. In any business, communication and collaboration are foundational, but these areas haven’t always been handled efficiently in healthcare organizations. Whenever we talk with our healthcare customers about what led them to adopt […]
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