Tier 3
From passion to productivity: how to build personal motivation into better work
We all have (and perhaps envy) a friend who seems to love their job. You know, the person who “whistles while they work,” so to speak—who seems to skip merrily to the office, is happy to put in overtime, who claims they’d still be an accountant or a teacher even if they didn’t get paid.Ok, so this friend may not exist. Work is supposed to be work! Still, the goal of finding a career that is both a source of happiness and fills our bank accounts is not as lofty as it once seemed. Most of us spend the majority of our waking lives at work. It’s not too much to ask that we feel as if we’re working toward something more than a paycheck alone. How then, do we go about finding fulfilling work?
Why agility is better than agile
RetroOnAgile helped us learn about what works and what could be improved about agile software development. Read about our findings and the Agility project.
How to close the issue management loop
When is an issue actually “done”? The CTO of rollout.io gives us his unique take.
3 ways to overcome administrative roadblocks with Jira 7.12
Imagine you are on your way to work and get stopped by a construction detour, causing you to change course and lose valuable time. That’s what it can feel like for Jira users when the one person they need to update a shared filter or dashboard is out of the office. As a Jira admin, […]
Bill Gates revealed his biggest weakness (and an important truth about leadership)
As a leader, you have to wear a lot of different hats. Admitting they don’t all fit perfectly goes a long way in building trust with the people around you.
How to weather the storm of a wild content management system
Learn how to use a content management strategy to calm even the wildest of content storms in your wiki
3 lessons from an email guru for taming inbox chaos
It’s not a stretch at all to say that I’m ridiculously obsessed with email. (I have the t-shirt to prove it.) The obsession probably started back in 2011 when I was a virtual assistant getting the, ahem, horrifying, peek into my clients’ inboxes. Or maybe it was way back in 2004 when I graduated college and was sending email after email applying to jobs and had to find some way of staying organized.
The distributed team’s guide to Git mirrors
Gallup’s 2017 State of the American Workplace found the number of employees working remotely reached 43%, up from 39% in 2012. In 2018, finding a company that lacks distributed teams or remote employees feels like an anomaly. If you’ve worked on a distributed team, then you’re familiar with the unique culture and challenges that spring forth. For development teams, […]
Push off flaws, be less productive: how to stop making excuses
You made a New Year’s resolution to go for a run at least three times per week, but have only managed to put on your running shoes a handful of times. It’s easy to muster up excuses as to why you haven’t stuck to your goal—you’ve been working late nights, it’s been too cold (or too hot) out to run—or you simply just can’t “find” the time to exercise consistently.
How to build your career on Atlassian
Learn how Atlassian University can help you increase your skills, whether you’re building your career or improving the capability of your team.
3 ways Confluence helps you break down silos and get work done
In most organizations, work is spread across multiple tools and silos. To move work forward, teams waste time emailing documents back and forth, making revisions, and combining changes across multiple versions of a document. Once work is complete, documents may live in different places and are hard to find or quickly become outdated, even if a […]
60 agile pros tell me what really matters in agile today
Despite what you might have heard, agile is alive, well, and solving some serious problems across the world of business, tech, and beyond
Do more with data: Introducing new apps for Confluence
You may think Confluence is only for creating written content, like reports, memos, and documentation. But, in reality, that’s only a fraction of what it can do. With the help of Atlassian Marketplace apps, Confluence can also help you manage large amounts of data on how your customers are engaging with your brand or on the work your employees are […]
Are managers really as horrible as you think?
There’s a real difference between “leading” and “managing”. Understand it, and you’ll have a good shot at excelling in either role.
Top tips from great incident response teams
Learn how support, operations, and development teams like Mixpanel, Front, and Grand Rounds come together for great incident response.