Development
Product roadmap vs product backlog: both essential, better together
This article was authored by Jim Semick, co-founder of ProductPlan and frequent speaker on product development. As an agile product team, you likely have both a strategic roadmap and a backlog in Jira Software. How can you use both in the most effective way possible? Naturally, the strategy from your roadmap is what drives prioritization […]
5 reasons your financial services company needs Hipchat Data Center
The pressure of digital transformation is greatly impacting the financial services industry. Whether you’re a mature enterprise or an emerging FinTech firm, you must centralize real-time data to make decisions, develop agile and collaborative teams, and remain compliant with constantly changing regulations. And, of course, these communications must remain secure. With increased scrutiny and regulations, […]
Atlassian and GDPR – Our commitment to data privacy
Atlassian is committed to compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect May 25, 2018. The regulation contains the most significant changes to European data privacy legislation in the last 20 years. It is designed to give EU citizens more control over their data and seeks to unify a number […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Don’t know how to get feedback at work? Here are some practical ways to start
Peer feedback is so important to your career growth and development. But, what’s the best way to ask for it? Most companies have at least a yearly performance review process but in reality, the best way to continually grow and learn from your experiences at work is by getting feedback on a regular basis. Kim […]
How to build a design system that will last
This is a guest blog post by UXPin. Design doesn’t scale easily because it’s a mixture of art and science. It’s traditionally been thought of as a cottage industry – a bunch of specialized folks crafting beautiful one-off solutions. But, with the recent surge of design roles industry-wide, the design world needs a more modular […]
The human side to scaling Jira: governance, change control, and more
When you think about growing your Jira instance what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Performance factors? Tactics and process? While all of these are critically important, and we’ve written documentation on what considerations to make when scaling, I’ve come to see that the human element to scaling is just as important – and often the most […]
Hipchat Data Center presents: 5 surprising ways enterprise teams are winning with ChatOps
There’s this rumor going around that ChatOps was the invention of start-ups. I don’t know about you, but I can think of several enterprise IT/Ops teams who started using chat to coordinate and troubleshoot over a decade ago. (Ok, back then we called it “instant messenger”. But still.) So I hope I don’t spoil the […]