Development
Practical continuous deployment: a guide to automated software delivery
Continuous deployment guides frequently focus on the culture and adoption aspects. What’s less common to see is how teams have addressed practical nuts-and-bolts issues. In this post, I’ll talk about the hurdles my team had to jump while transitioning to continuous deployment: workflow stuff, tools stuff, and a bunch of “gotchas”. And for those of […]
Summit Europe: how to convince your boss that you should attend
We hope you’ve heard the exciting news that Atlassian is headed to Barcelona for our first ever Atlassian Summit Europe happening May 2 – 5 and we want to make sure you don’t miss out on this inaugural event! So dust off that passport and get ready for four jam-packed days of Atlassian best practices, networking […]
Git Large File Storage (LFS) support comes to Bamboo 5.15
We want to make Git work for everyone and that is why we introduced Git Large File Storage (LFS) to Bitbucket and are now announcing its support in Bamboo 5.15. Git LFS lets you store really big files where they are needed, not just where they fit, to help speed up your development cycle. Adding […]
How to manage projects like an actual project manager
So. You have to manage a project, and you’re not a project manager by trade. I’ve been there. It’s pretty daunting, with all these different frameworks and methodologies to consider… But if you’re like me, you don’t really care about methodology. You just want to deliver your project successfully, and not lose your mind in the process. […]
Kitesurfing with ex-presidents: what Richard Branson taught me about leadership
If I told you that you were going to meet a 66 year-old business man worth 7 billion dollars who owns his own island, you’d greet that person with certain assumptions and expectations. Right? Well, when I met Sir Richard Branson for the first time, I brought in my own assumptions of what he’d be […]
5 reasons to add Confluence if you’re a Jira Software team
Confluence and Jira Software are like bacon and eggs, Simon and Garfunkel, wine and cheese.Separately, they’re good. Together, they’re real good. In fact, over half of Jira Software teams already use Confluence as a complement to Jira and their agile development toolset. Check out our video to see why: There are many good reasons to use Confluence and Jira Software together, […]
Your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…
It continues to be a difficult social and political climate. Personally, Scott and I strongly disagree with many of the decisions made in the first week by President Trump, especially those that violate Atlassian’s values and commitment to openness, inclusion, diversity, and acceptance. I believe President Trump’s recent executive order to ban all refugees, visa […]
Bitbucket Server 4.13 brings in-browser editing and more
You’ve probably heard the word “simplify” floating around a lot this time of year. People are setting New Year’s resolutions, clearing the clutter, and generally, trying to do more with greater efficiency and focus
5 things I learned about product (and people) management this year
This last year has been a blur. At the start of 2016 I was working in Product Management at Twitter, and then I moved to the other side of the world to work at Atlassian in Sydney, Australia. Despite the massive geographic and timezone change, I’ve learned a lot from both places about being a […]
What I want other parents to know about women in tech
On the go? You can listen to this blog, read by the author, using the player below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311716129″ params=”color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] I’m a 16-year veteran of the tech world, a “recovering coder,” and the mother of a 6-year-old girl. And if I was looking at tech from the outside, I would be […]
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 […]
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.