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How do emotions affect productivity? [New research]
This article was written with Prashant Kukde of DeepAffects. There’s a long-held expectation that people should keep their emotions out of the workplace. I’m sure you’ve heard it at some point: keep a firm boundary between your personal and professional life. The problem is, this is not actually possible or even helpful to productivity. Human […]
5 ways working remotely changed the way I think about teamwork
People talk a lot about remote work these days, but with most things, you never truly know until you’ve experienced it. I’ve learned quite a bit about remote teamwork along the way and I thought I’d share some lessons I learned as developer and architect.
How a large insurance company migrated to Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket Data Center in 3 months
“We’re migrating to Data Center products for Jira and Confluence. What does the migration involve, have other teams done it?”, asked an admin from a large company. Data Center is Atlassian’s enterprise product line for companies which self-host Atlassian applications on-premise or on AWS or Azure. These companies migrate from Server products to Data Center […]
Improve the license utilization of your Atlassian products with Crowd 3.1
We know that as your teams continue to grow and the number of products you own continues to increase, managing your users and planning license utilization for your products becomes even more complex. Are you utilizing your licenses for each product properly or do you often feel like you are wasting licenses? Today, in Crowd […]
When companies ban remote work in the name of collaboration, what are they really saying?
The debate over remote work rages on. At the heart of the issue is collaboration and, by extension, creativity, and innovation. How well can teammates really work together when they’re not in the same building? Don’t we need that intense level of interaction to spark new ideas? Surely, teams are more effective when they’re sitting side by […]
Forget about “fail fast” – just fail well
Go ahead, include it with the others. “Fail” has gone full buzzword. Shield your eyes (if you can) from the event banners, the blog post headers, the office posters, all with “fail” and “fail fast” writ large. Can’t we do better than grease the wheels of the failure bandwagon? Let’s forget failure. What matters is […]
Your teams are getting better navigation in Jira Cloud
Over the past few years, we’ve reviewed thousands of customer responses that highlight a common theme: complexity and poor usability are the biggest challenges for teams using Jira. After rigorous testing and validation, we’re happy to announce that Jira Cloud will get an updated look and feel, including a collapsible sidebar navigation and enhanced search, […]
More power and control in Jira Service Desk Server 3.9
The Jira Service Desk Server Team is committed to making it easier and faster for your teams to get stuff done. With the release of Jira Service Desk Server 3.9, we’ve made canned responses even more powerful, we’ve improved the automation around approvals, and we’ve introduced live monitoring with JMX. Read on to find out […]
Priority schemes have arrived in Jira Software Server 7.6
At Atlassian we often say customer feedback is a gift. It’s the guiding insight that helps us improve existing features, and an important factor in translating customer goals to our roadmap. In Jira Software Server 7.6 we’re delivering features requested, voted and discussed by you that help streamline work at scale. With that said, we have […]
How and why we use coding challenges to interview developers
Hiring is one of the most time-intensive and critical things we do. This means time is precious. We can’t waste any on interviewing or hiring the wrong people. That’s why every engineering candidate we talk to goes through a set of coding challenges. We know there are different schools of thought on this (and some […]
How to make corporate learning and development work for your company
This is a guest post by Kevin Daniels, writer at LearnUp. There’s never been a better time to focus on developing your skills. As new technologies, platforms, and business opportunities open up, the one thing that will set successful people apart in the future is their continual adaptation to the changing world around them. These […]
Introducing Identity Manager for Atlassian Cloud products
Across the board, we’ve been delighted to see significant growth in the adoption of our Atlassian Cloud products. Did you know that over 75% of new customers start with a cloud deployment? Speed of implementation, ease of maintenance, and immediate access to the latest and greatest features are just some of the reasons driving this […]
Making the most of the Jira integration for Hipchat Data Center
Once in a blue moon, there comes a power couple so good for each other that you can’t help but merge their names into one. While “Jirpchat” may never take off, we can always take solace in the fact that there’s the Jira integration for Hipchat Data Center. The integration gives you the ability to access Jira […]
3 ways to improve collaboration by putting culture first
When I see high-performing teams working well together, I can attribute it to the people, tools, and practices every time. When I see dysfunctional teams, they almost always have the same tools as their high-performing counterparts. The difference is in the people and practices. In an age where work is increasingly about creative problem-solving (i.e., now and the […]
How to write a good status update
This is a guest post from Baron Schwartz, Founder and CEO at VividCortex. I’ve seen my share of terrible status updates. As Founder and CEO of a SaaS platform for database performance management, VividCortex, I know the power of a great status update to build or destroy trust. Unfortunately, I see more bad status updates […]
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