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3 new features in Portfolio for Jira 2.2 to improve your roadmap
With 2017 underway, your software teams are busy planning their roadmaps for the upcoming year. This is a time when team leads, like project managers, product managers, and development managers, meet to estimate or re-evaluate estimates, so that resources are allocated, and a roadmap is committed to. To make things easier we are introducing Portfolio […]
New reporting in Fisheye and Crucible 4.3, and more
Whether you use Fisheye & Crucible with Subversion, Perforce, Git, or Mercurial, one thing that all teams have in common is the need to report on repository activity. How many lines of code were committed last week? Who committed code over the last sprint? In order to answer these questions we are happy to announce […]
4 simple collaboration strategies for distributed teams
This is a guest post by Simon Herd, Co-founder and CEO of ThinkTilt, creators of ProForma. ProForma provides an extensive library of easy-to-use, customizable forms to bring the functionality and convenience of Jira Service Desk to all business teams. We are everywhere. Well, maybe not everywhere, but we do have a team that is spread […]
6 essential skills every quality assistance engineer should develop
What type of QA engineer are you? Quality Assurance, or Quality Assistance? At Atlassian we take a “quality assistance” approach to QA in order to optimise our release process for both quality and speed. Quality assistance, first coined by Cem Kaner, is based on the idea that a QA engineer is a facilitator for high […]
How to deploy Java apps with Docker (a quick tutorial)
For those new to Docker, let me say “Welcome to the party!” It’s an easy way to deploy, run, and manage applications using vm-like containers that are independent of elements like hardware and language, which makes these containers highly portable. And it’s all the rage. So how do you deploy Java apps using Docker? You’re […]
If your company’s idea of teamwork is BS, here’s how to fix it
Teamwork and tools that support it get a lot of hype. But teamwork isn’t a technical problem – it’s a people problem. You can’t solve it with tools.
Building a winning team with agile performance management
This is a guest post written by Anand Inamdar, Product Owner at Amoeboids Technologies. The team at Amoeboids has developed & supports Jira add-ons UpRaise for Employee Success and Automated Release Notes. In today’s world of rapid innovation and powerful technology advances, it’s easier than ever to start up a company. But, building a winning team […]
Jira Software Server 7.3: power to the admins
Recent releases of Jira Software focused on making it easier for administrators to manage Jira Software at scale while making teams more efficient with features like improved sprint permissions, configuration of versions and components, and greater flexibility to deploy and manage Jira Software in AWS. But we were just getting started. In Jira Software 7.3, […]
Atlassian + Trello: changing the way teams work
When we founded Atlassian 15 years ago, it seemed obvious to us that software could help teams work better together. But in those days most software companies were focused on developing for personal productivity. We felt that using tools designed for individuals to accomplish teamwork is a bit like using scissors to mow your lawn. […]
Customizable email notifications and more in Jira Service Desk server 3.3
Looking for Jira Service Desk Cloud? Click here to learn about these features available in cloud. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Jira Service Desk server 3.3. The Jira Service Desk team has worked hard to deliver features you asked for as well as functionality we believe will make Jira Service Desk easier […]
Iterate on your team: how to stay agile and keep improving
It’s the start of a new year, and everyone is thinking about how to improve themselves and their work. I’m not here to offer a list of resolutions to take on, or tips to make the most out of 2017. My message for the coming year is simply this: keep working on your team. It […]
5 Confluence milestones of 2016
As we ring in the new year, with many exciting updates in store for Confluence customers in 2017, it’s worth noting a few of the highlights of the year past, in case you missed them in the flurry of an eventful 2016. And, in the spirit of the new year, we’ll share some of what […]
Say sayonara to business jargon with corpspeak haiku
I know. Everybody’s too busy blowing things out of the water and knocking things out of the park to start talking and writing like actual humans. Well, guess what. The machines are coming, and they’re coming fast. If we don’t stop talking like machines and start re-engaging our clever human minds to come up with fresher […]
Test automation: the secret to DevOps success
This is a guest post by Susana Diaz, Product Marketing Manager at Infostretch, makers of QMetry products available in the Atlassian Marketplace. DevOps is designed to enable a culture where development and operations come together to build, test and deploy applications in order to reduce overall deployment time. As the DevOps movement gathers pace, some […]
How the Daily Telegraph’s IT team used Confluence to fuel tenfold growth
The Daily Telegraph is the UK’s #1 news brand. Through its newspapers, mobile apps, website, and magazines, the Telegraph reaches 2.1M viewers every day. Before using Confluence, The Telegraph was outsourcing IT services, and suffering from poor resolution times and lack of transparency. It didn’t have a living knowledge base or an effective collaboration solution […]
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