Development
Kickstart your DevOps journey with Jira Software and Bitbucket Server 5.3
DevOps is built on a set of 3 underlying principles that impact your success (a.k.a the 3 ways of DevOps) – flow, feedback, and experimentation. During your DevOps journey, the 3 ways impact how you think about work, how you interact with your team – and extended team – and the practices you put into place. When […]
The 6 best Confluence pages for building a DevOps culture
Most conversations about DevOps focus on automation, and for good reason. Automation provides opportunities to significantly cut costs and eliminate human error from otherwise monotonous tasks. However, DevOps begins with a culture shift, in which the fundamental element is effective communication between development and operations teams. Because automation provides for faster, more frequent deployments, having a collaborative, high-trust environment is more important than […]
Catching up with Gosia Kowalska, product manager lead for Jira Software Server
It’s an exciting time for the Jira Software Server team. In the past 6 months, we’ve been hard at work on product improvements, new feature requests and setting our future vision with one goal in mind: how to best support agile teams in growing organizations. Leading the charge for the product team is Gosia Kowalska. I […]
Modernizing product development in a traditional Japanese keiretsu
This is a guest post written by Hiroshi Ohnuki, CEO of Ricksoft Co., Ltd. and Sean Osawa, CEO of Ricksoft, Inc. Ricksoft Co., Ltd. is an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner in Tokyo and was awarded Top New Sales Partner in Asia Pacific region in 2015 and 2016. Ricksoft, Inc. was established in 2016 in San […]
5 simple ways to create transparency at work
It’s no secret that transparency, more commonly expressed as “Open company, no BS,” is one of Atlassian’s most important values. Far from a boardroom buzzword, operating with integrity within and between teams is a vital part of your team and company’s success. According to TinyPulse, a B2B SaaS employee survey firm, transparency is the top factor contributing to employee happiness. 5 ways to create transparency at […]
Inside the mind of Confluence Server product manager, Adam Barnes
Hi Adam! Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I’m Adam Barnes, the Senior Product Manager for Confluence Server at Atlassian. I have passion for evolving society through the use of digital technologies. When I’m not finding ways to make collaboration easier for your team, I love to brew beer, go snow camping […]
Boiling the ocean with Portfolio for Jira: adventures in capacity planning
[Captain’s log August 1, 2117 – somewhere off the Gold Coast. What follows is an account of how I created the agile capacity plan for building the software that will power our mission to boil the oceans – and save humanity.] . . . If you’re reading this, it means our mission failed and the crew is […]
DevOps vs. compliance: a guide to having it all
The miasma of compliance documentation alone is enough to drain a person’s soul. Thank goodness for DevOps.
Q&A with a Bamboo product manager: see what we’ve been building
It’s been a busy year so far for the Bamboo team, and with the recent release of Bamboo 6.1, there are no signs of it slowing down any time soon. I recently sat down with Bamboo Product Manager, Syed Ghouse Masood, to find out more about what the team’s been up to, what new features were added […]
I ran my kids like an Atlassian team for a month
My wife recently went away on a business trip to the U.S. so I decided to experiment on my children. What if, I thought, I ran my kids like an Atlassian team? My boys are awesome, but anybody with three boys children knows that things can get a little bit crazy at times. My goal […]
Inside Atlassian: Meet the Portfolio for Jira product managers
Portfolio for Jira is about to turn three. In those three years, we have seen it evolve to be Data Center compatible, endure one name change, and be rebuilt from the inside out to better integrate data dynamically from Jira Software. Also, the product team has brought more and more features that do away with the heavy lift of planning […]
Bitbucket Server 5.2: compliance meets DevOps
Version control is at the heart of every development team’s process. The version control tooling and technology you select not only dictate how you interact with your team but can also hold you back from making improvements to your workflow. For example, teams looking to adopt DevOps practices can be especially frustrated with the lack of tooling options if […]
Getting the most out of JQL with Atlassian Marketplace add-ons
One of the great things about Jira is that it is easily extensible. It’s extensiblity layer makes it easy to add new features or extend existing ones. JQL is no exception in that regard. There are a number of plugins for Jira on the Atlassian Marketplace that enhance JQL. You can also develop custom functions […]
Inside Atlassian: An interview with Crowd Development Lead, Marcin Kempa
Hi Marcin, can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a development lead on the Crowd team located in the Gdańsk office. My entire professional career, almost 10 years now, has been focused on developing mission critical enterprise products – servicing industries ranging from aviation to financial services. I made my way to Atlassian two […]
How to speed up code reviews
This is a guest blog post by Atlassian Marketplace vendor, Midori. Ask anyone in the DevOps community and chances are, they will tell you that code review is time-consuming and frequently boring, but it’s a critical phase of the software development process. What they mention less often is that the long back and forths with […]