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Creating insightful customer interview pages using Confluence
Using Confluence to document and share customer interviews can help with every step of the process, including using feedback to create better products. Check out these design tips and best practices for creating customer interview pages.
Maintaining company culture as your agile teams scale
Establishing a unified culture with a small team can be easy. But as an organization grows, maintaining that same agile culture gets more and more challenging. Teams can become siloed, and the shared company vision, norms, systems, and habits are more difficult to preserve. So what lessons can we impart about keeping your culture intact as your agile teams scale?
What every product manager needs to know about product analytics
This post is part of our collection on product management. Learn best practices and get advice from Atlassian’s product managers here. As product managers, we take every opportunity we get to learn more about our customers because understanding their needs is critical to building and releasing useful products. This means conducting customer interviews, running surveys, and […]
Break it down: decomposing user stories in Jira
With over 500k agile projects in Jira (among just Cloud customers – wow!), we realized we’re sitting on a ton of data that sheds light on how agile teams function. We then bet, that with some anonymized data mining, we could find teams that have a release cadence that they hit sprint after sprint after sprint.
A shake n’ bake recipe for realistic roadmaps with Jira Portfolio
This recipe is for the perfect roadmap. It’s data-driven, realistic, and it’ll give you the ability to combine agile and long term planning, without the need for messy spreadsheets.
Getting roadmaps right: tips and tricks from our planning experts
In a previous Jira insiders, I showed you how the Jira Portfolio team combines long-term planning and agile execution using Jira Portfolio. I also mentioned that “techniques for coming up with a high-level product strategy could fill a separate blog post.” We were overwhelmed by the interest and feedback in that blog (thanks!), so I’m delivering […]
Atlassian’s Agile Coach goes TAM
Hey everyone! Dan, the agile TAM here. Many of you know me as a frequent author here on atlassian.reaktivdev.com, where I’ve written about Jira, agile, Jira Agile, and software development best practices. I joined Atlassian as the Agile Evangelist three years ago, and recently made the transition over to our Technical Account Management (TAM) team.
8 secrets to succeeding in product management
This post is part of our collection on product management. Learn best practices and get advice from Atlassian’s product managers here. Listen to this blog! 1. Know and grow your lens. Product management is all about how you frame up problems and bring solutions into focus. Unlike some roles, a product manager’s success is not […]
Tips for agile product management
At Atlassian, we pride ourselves on building great products. We rely on our fantastic product managers and product owners to lead the product design process. We’re also strong advocates of agile methodologies for software development, and love to share what we learn about agile with all of you. We’re excited to bring it all together […]
Inside Atlassian: how the Portfolio for Jira team uses Portfolio for Jira
Long-term planning and agile: is it really possible? [cta] Even when using an agile approach, there’s still a need to forecast over a long time period. The challenge is to combine both a long-term vision and frequent, continuous delivery along the way. We tend to find that a lot of teams using Jira are actually tracking their long-term […]
Assign, discuss, done: more Jira + Hipchat goodness
Together, Jira and Hipchat eliminate shoulder tapping while ensuring that agile teams can collaborate and communicate in real-time. Team members get the information they want, when and where they want it. Does it get any better than that?
Jira Portfolio: the fundamentals
[cta]Getting started with anything new can be tricky, but getting the fundamentals right makes it a lot easier! For Jira Portfolio, the fundamentals begin with initiatives and themes, so we’ll start with those. Introducing initiatives We talk lots about initiatives and how they give you that cross-team and cross-project view, but what are they, actually? Initiatives are […]
Get started with these Jira Portfolio demo videos
Are you using Jira Portfolio but unsure about where to start? Or maybe you’re not using Jira Portfolio but want to see how it works? Good news! We’ve created a series of Jira Portfolio demo videos to teach you the fundamentals so you can get your projects into Jira Portfolio in no time. There are 9 videos in total (whoa!) but each one is only 3 to 5 mins long (phew!). If you’re new to Jira Portfolio, we recommend watching them in order.
Inside Atlassian: stand-ups for distributed and co-located teams
Stand-up is one of the fundamental parts of agile development, and it’s often the most misunderstood. Let’s be real: stand-ups by themselves don’t make your team agile. They aren’t about inflating egos or justifying job descriptions. They aren’t a time to plan; Sprint planning is for planning. They also aren’t the only time to mention blockers. If you’re stuck, ask for help!