Development

Cambodia trek 2015: Atlassian and Room to Read

On November 18th, twelve Atlassians from across the globe met in Phnom Penh to participate in our annual trek with Room to Read, an organization dedicated to breaking the poverty cycle through the power of education. Their focus is on improving literacy and gender equality in education throughout Asia and Africa.

Win everyone over with your roadmap: 10 tips for product managers

The presentation of a roadmap can be nail biting for both developers and product managers; one party has worked hard to come up with a vision while the other party waits to see the unknown that is going to affect their work. I felt this tension when I worked as a developer and I often […]

Get the most powerful integration experience with Hipchat Connect

Since its introduction a month ago, Hipchat Connect has produced over a dozen add-ons from our friends at services like Zendesk, Meekan, and Statuspage, with more coming from New Relic, PagerDuty, and Zephyr. And this is just the beginning.

Atlassian’s IPO and the power of teams

Today is a big day for Atlassian. A few minutes ago, we became a publicly traded company. Mike and I had the honor of ringing the NASDAQ opening bell, and we can think of no better way to celebrate than to recognize the work of our customers around the world and their teams that helped make all this possible.

Improved visibility and remote agent support in Bamboo 5.10

It’s now possible to see Bamboo build statuses in Bitbucket for both cloud and server users. With this feature, you’ll spend a lot less time switching between tools looking for the results of a sensitive commit. Build results appear in context – next to pull requests, commits, and branches – and are linked to the matching Bamboo builds. In addition to making the Bamboo and Bitbucket connection more friendly, we’ve enabled the use of remote agents in Bamboo 5.10 Cloud.

Inside Atlassian: a product manager and a dev manager walk into a planning meeting…

Product planning meetings are one of the most important meetings in a product’s lifecycle so we decided to take you inside a product planning meeting at Atlassian by filming the latest Portfolio for Jira planning meeting (filming the planning meeting of a planning tool seemed only fitting). These product planning meetings tend to happen quarterly and last about four hours (don’t worry – we time-lapsed it for you of course!).

Examples of capturing customer feedback for agile development

Customer feedback in agile development is a three-step process of gathering, documenting, and prioritizing. Here are examples from our product managers.

Confluence editor: create and edit pages faster than ever

We haven’t just focused on making Confluence faster, we’ve worked hard to make you faster too. That comes down to two important functions: creating and editing content. In this post, I’ll cover two improvements to how you create and edit content.

New ebook: the software team’s guide to Confluence

The “Software Team’s Guide to Confluence” ebook is a collection of pro tips and step-by-step tutorials – tailor-made for software teams – that’ll show you how to use Confluence for creating, organizing, and documenting the information your team needs to make awesome products.

Announcing the Codegeist 2015 winners!

We received over 140 submissions for Codegeist 2015 – a 50% increase over the previous competition – making it one of the most successful Atlassian hackathons ever. Because of the huge demand for cloud based add-ons, this year’s competition concentrated on the cloud.

Portfolio for Jira: project managers edition

This is part three of Portfolio for Jira’s “across the team” series. In this edition, I’m going to show you how project and program managers can use Portfolio for Jira to accurately plan across projects and teams.

Building command line tools with Node.js

I’ve written hundreds of Bash scripts over my career, but I still suck at Bash. I have to look up the syntax for simple logical structures every single time. If I want to do anything fancy with curl or sed, I have to go and look up man pages too. I spend hours brute forcing every possible combination […]

Optimize your video conferences with Trello’s Google hangout and Appear.in integrations

Keeping projects on track: four lessons for development managers

Imagine you had a product with millions of users, over five million lines of code, and more than 100 developers working on it. And then your company decided that this product had the opportunity to become an even more successful platform. Check out how two of our development managers co-coordinated Jira’s move from product to platform.

Portfolio for Jira: development managers edition

This is part 2 of the Portfolio for Jira ‘across the team’ series. Last time, we talked about product managers and how they can use Portfolio for Jira to organize ideas, build roadmaps, and play with what-if scenarios. So in this edition, I’m going to show you how development managers can use Portfolio for Jira to […]