Development
Atlassian and Upwork team up to help small teams ship big
The innovator’s dilemma From an Etsy store owner to a mobile app startup, these days every company is a software company. However, hiring a full-time staff of Silicon Valley engineers is simply not a viable option for most small teams. At Atlassian, we see this issue all the time. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are […]
4 features you asked for from Jira Software
Since our early days, we’ve encouraged customers to share feedback and suggestions for improving Jira Software through our feature request site.The Jira Software team recently closed out some of the highest voted requests as part of Jira Software Server 7.2, including a few that you’ve been patiently waiting on for some time. Thanks for helping us get […]
Atlassian Summit 2016: tips for getting the most out of Summit
Whether this will be your first Atlassian Summit or your 8th, we hope you’re getting as pumped up as we are for Atlassian Summit 2016 – our biggest event yet. From attending awesome sessions to networking with fellow Atlassian users, to Summit Bash, your days will be jam-packed with activities and we want you to make […]
Maximize your Trello workflow with custom fields
Custom Fields are a way to give cards more quick context, including marking them as done (yes, you read that correctly!), and much more functionality.
Group video chat and screen sharing: coming to a Hipchat near you
Remember the last time a discussion really got going in Hipchat? Someone probably wrote, “I bet we could hash this out in 5 minutes if we talked face-to-face.” So you either scheduled a meeting or you flipped over to Skype, Google Hangouts, or your company’s conference-bridge-of-choice. Invariably, the conversation lost momentum. The new Hipchat video platform […]
npm for Bitbucket 2.0: Now with private packages!
Note: This is a repost of our previous announcement. However if you don’t have it already, the Bitbucket NPM add-on is now available in the Atlassian Marketplace. Original announcement … We’re pleased to announce version 2.0 of Tim’s npm for Bitbucket integration. The major change for this release is the addition of support for private packages. Read […]
4 ways prototyping untangles your product requirements
As a writer with over 10 years of experience in product management, Germaine loves to share resources that help agile PMs. Check out her recent ebook Prototyping for Product Managers. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype must be worth a hundred thousand pages of a requirements document. While a requirements […]
What teaching kids to code taught me
“Good morning, Mr. Kelley!” Over the past year, I’ve enjoyed hearing this cheerful greeting from my students at the start of every class. No, I’m not a teacher; I’m a Senior Java Developer at Atlassian. But this year, I’ve been able to teach kids computer science education in a local Sydney school. Like many places, […]
The me in team: personal productivity tips to boost your team game
You’ve heard a coach say: There ain’t no “I” in team! And that’s true enough. But, there is a “me.” (You take the m from the end and the e from the second position… oh, never mind.) At Atlassian, we believe good teams are made up of individuals with distinct strengths that collectively drive teamwork […]
How to build a kick-ass agile team
Despite sharing common values, there is no formula for the perfect agile team. Some implement scrum while others use kanban. Agile purists prefer co-located teams, but business realities sometimes necessitate distributing an agile team across geographies. Most agile teams possess all the required skills, but sometimes it’s necessary to call on specialists for specific work. So how do you know whether your team is on the path to greatness? Read on.
How to scale Jira Software to 10,000+ users
What do you do when your Jira Software instance grows from 10 to 10,000+ users? This was what Brian Wallace and Mike Damman, Vice President and Knowledge Architect at Cerner, the leading U.S. supplier of healthcare information technology, needed to answer in order to meet the needs of their growing teams. How do you guarantee reliability […]
The importance of empathy in coding interviews
A loss of color to the face. Sweaty palms and clammy handshakes. Cracking voices and fumbled words. Yes, I am describing one of the most-feared elements of any job search: the interview. At Atlassian, we’re all about teams and how they work together to create great things. And in this pursuit, it’s essential that we […]
Portfolio for Jira meets kanban
No matter what agile framework your team uses, Portfolio for Jira can forecast a realistic roadmap for your product or project. In our blogs about Portfolio for Jira, we’ve focused heavily on Scrum methodology, but lately we’ve been getting more questions about how kanban can be planned in Portfolio for Jira. So lets see how […]
Bitbucket Data Center is now available for growing teams
Whether you’re burning the midnight oil at a startup or starting a new project within a larger organization, we want to be part of your Git journey. And in order to do that, we need to be there from the start. So Bitbucket Data Center now offers source code collaboration for professional teams, across any […]
Codegeist 2016: help teams work better
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89MoWzAlLZo&w=560&h=315] We’re happy to announce Codegeist, Atlassian’s 9th add-on online hackathon. Add-ons allow you to extend Jira and other Atlassian products with even more functionality. You can find over 2,000 add-ons in the Atlassian Marketplace. Have an idea about how to make Jira, Confluence, Hipchat, or Bitbucket even better? Build an add-on or find […]