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Project management tips for big, hairy, complex projects
The most challenging part of conquering a complex project is simply starting. At Atlassian, we deal with complex projects every day, from cross-product integrations to projects with aggressive deadlines or dispersed teammates. The bigger and more dynamic a project is, the more likely it is to cause stress and indecision. Although every project is different, and […]
Is conflict killing your collaboration?
Actually, aggressive agreement is already doing it for you. Humans are hardwired to avoid conflict. Especially in the workplace, hostility is a threat that we avoid like the proverbial plague. But conflict can help. Questioning, disagreement, and argument can penetrate layers of opacity and get at the heart of matters. What’s more, conflict means people care. […]
10 ways to get started with the Team Playbook
Ever since we launched the Atlassian Team Playbook in 2016, we’ve been peppered with questions from customers and members of our own teams. Most of them are addressed in the Team Playbook’s “about” page, but there’s one question – one I’ve been asked many times – that doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all answer: “What’s the best […]
A defining moment for global teamwork
Just after this post goes live, I’ll take the stage in Barcelona for our first Atlassian Summit in Europe. I’m excited to talk about our plans for the future and share news about our global cloud expansion. We have tremendous innovation emerging across our Cloud, Server and Data Center product lines. Fueling it all is […]
Bitbucket Server 5.0 & Bamboo 6.0: bringing DevOps to the enterprise
Bitbucket Server 5.0 and Bamboo 6.0 are here and ready to help you bring DevOps practices to the enterprise level.
Atlassian Marketplace surpasses $250M in sales, introduces new partner add-ons
With the help of add-ons from Atlassian Marketplace, teams can customize their favorite products to meet their particular needs. Today, we’re introducing new ways for customers to discover useful add-ons, and are offering many new add-ons that integrate with other popular services they already use and love. Plus, we’ve recently reached some exciting milestones to share […]
Inside Atlassian: teamwork and mental illness in the workplace
“Hi. My name is Tyler, and I have mental health issues.”
Test automation: Why you need it and how to get started
This is a guest blog post by Xpand IT, maker of add-ons in the Atlassian Marketplace. When companies today are trying to ship as fast as possible, test automation is becoming more and more essential. Test automation is when you use an automation tool to test the functionality of your software and find bugs. Many developers […]
UConn finally lost, but here’s why they’re still winners
Just after my first season coaching my seven-year-old son’s YMCA basketball team, a friend posted this video on Facebook: Geno Auriemma, the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Connecticut. His team’s 111-game winning streak, the longest in history, was recently snapped. My heart just soared watching this. First off, everything […]
More building, less tracking: Jira Software now integrates with AWS CodeStar
The developers and product managers building the cloud often can’t use cloud development tools to do their work. And while 95% of companies have adopted some cloud products and services, software development tools largely remain on premise. This is changing. The developers building the cloud want to develop in the cloud. The flexibility, economics, and extensibility of […]
Bitbucket Pipelines now supports building Docker images, and service containers for database testing
Companies love delivering their applications using Docker. According to Forrester, 30% of enterprise developers are actively exploring containers, and Docker is the dominant DevOps tool, with 35% of organizations adopting it, according to a recent RightScale survey. Docker provides a painless method of building and deploying applications as a set of independent micro services, which are scalable and resilient. […]
Eliminate downtime with Jira Software Data Center
Recently, Atlassian solutions engineer, Benjamin King, and Jira Software engineer, Dick Wiggers, teamed up to present a technical webinar on how our Data Center deployment option works, with a deeper dive into zero downtime upgrades for Jira Software Data Center. In case you missed it (or want to re-live the action!) we’ve compiled the key […]
Want better meetings? Meet Helmut, the rubber chicken
Don’t we all love meetings that go on forever? And people who love listening to the sound of their own voice? Obviously, the answer is “no”. Do we all want better meetings? Yes! I’ve sat in I-don’t-know-how-many business meetings over the course of my career where the discussion went forever, but was going nowhere. The […]
Atlassian extends leadership in Incident Management
Last summer, we made a bet on the importance of incident communications when we acquired Statuspage and added the first product to our suite to specifically address incident management and communications. We saw early on that providing status and regularly communicating with customers — especially during incidents — had become a critical part of the software […]
DevOps Maturity Model report: trends and best practices in 2017
DevOps has been a cultural force in the world of software and operations for 10 years. Like many grassroots movements, DevOps practices have been slowly but steadily gaining traction among operations and software teams in all sorts of industries. But where has 10 years of cultural change, infrastructure improvement, and tooling gotten us? To answer […]
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