Development
Smart mirroring: the cure for poor Git performance
Are you on one of those teams that finds all kinds of ways to stretch the limits of its development tools? If you’re at a big company, working on big projects stored in big repositories – possibly repos that are shared with teammates across multiple continents – the answer is probably “yes”. Using Git at massive scale can be so inefficient that it poisons your team’s productivity. So I want to bring you up to speed on the antidote we’ve developed. It’s called smart mirroring, and it’s now available in Bitbucket Data Center.
Start real-time planning with live plans in Portfolio for Jira
Live Plans is a new type of real-time planning experience in Portfolio for Jira. By loading data dynamically from Jira Software, Live Plans lets you plan in real time and be assured that everything is always up to date. We invite you to try out the new Live Plans feature and pioneer the experience with us.
Making the shift to behavior driven development
Many years ago, some smart people devised a better way to develop software quickly and with high quality using a test-first methodology in place of a traditional requirements-driven approach. But businesses quickly realized it didn’t give them the visibility and coverage they needed for the most important business cases in their systems. So, a variant was born called behavior driven development (BDD). Now, organizations could push features quickly with quality AND confidence that they met end user expectations.
Using Jira Core, marketing and software teams get in sync
Successfully launching a new product is a complicated process – multiple teams are involved and each have a multitude of tasks to accomplish. Such a feat requires the help of two teams to work in sync. Software teams to develop the product and marketing teams to generate awareness, demand, and adoption. Traditionally, however, software and […]
Be more agile with new sprint permissions
Cue the music for one of Jira Software’s new permissions: manage sprints. Learn more about permissions and how they function behind the scenes to affect every member of your team. Plus, get an overview of how manage sprint permissions bring simplicity to planning and tracking work, remove overhead, and minimize risk for everyone – no more single points of failure and instead an environment in which the entire team can be more agile.
5 Hipchat tips to help you get more done and have more fun
Last year, we introduced tons of new features that make Hipchat even slicker, smoother, and more fun to use. Up your Hipchat game with these 5 new tips and tricks, making you the pro we always knew you were. If you like these, you’ll also dig our tips and tricks for power users.
What is ChatOps? A guide to its evolution, adoption, and significance
The most innovative teams of the last 15 years, have devised a new way of collaborating. Driven by the demands of running global services built for billions of users, software and IT teams evolved from email to chat… and then, to ChatOps.
Distributed teams can now build faster with Bitbucket
We’re committed to helping teams deliver software at speed. Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve shipped these features: Smart Mirroring to improve clone performance for distributed teams, available in Bitbucket Data Center; Git LFS support to allow collaboration on all file types of any size, available in Bitbucket Server and Data Center; and Projects for organizing multiple repositories, available in Bitbucket Cloud, Server and Data Center.
Three resolutions for better agile ceremonies
No matter where you fall on the scale from zero to agile, by mastering the basics of agile development, you and your team can make awesome software. So in the light of the new year and bettering oneself, I propose three resolutions for your team – each one focused on an agile ceremony.
What agile retrospectives won’t improve, and what you can do about it
Retrospectives are one of those essential rituals of agile practice. They’re fast, they’re easy, and a great way for a team to focus on how to improve what they’re doing. But the thing with retrospectives is that they sometimes become all about the practice of your team, rather than the intent of your team. They become all about the team’s shoulda woulda coulda, rather than the team’s purpose…
Marketplace monthly: the latest add-ons, including Uber!
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Wouldn’t it be awesome if (insert Atlassian product) did…” there’s a good chance that someone else had the same thought and built an add-on to do exactly what you want. Welcome to the Atlassian Marketplace: home to thousands of add-ons for your favorite Atlassian products.
4 tips for using Jira and Outlook
In a software development setting, it’s a common requirement to transfer information from emails to Jira Software, Jira Core, or Jira Service Desk. Have you ever wondered “Is there is a faster way to create a new issue?” Or “How do I work with the Jira Software notification emails?” These four best practices will answer those questions and show you how to get the most out of using Jira Software and Outlook together.
Atlassian University: new ways to help teams use Atlassian products
We’re excited to announce new learning content at Atlassian University to help accelerate your success. Atlassian University now offers something for everyone, from brand-new users to Jira admins. Our new learning levels provide content that’s focused on where you are – enabling teams to get the most out of Atlassian products.
PMs weigh in: prioritizing customer feedback and backlog grooming
Gathering customer feedback, turning feedback into actionable inputs, and then prioritizing those inputs for your development team are some of the most important functions of a PM. They’re also the most challenging. Every PM has their way of balancing and prioritizing their products backlog, but we want to give you some additional tips and techniques […]
How to get $#*! done faster with the new Confluence dashboard
We thought about how people start their days and their work in Confluence. We listened to feedback about the content people need right away and how often they access it. And we discovered that most of you spend the vast majority of your time working in one space, and highly value getting back to recent work as quickly as possible. So, we made it easier to find and resume your work with a brand new Confluence dashboard.