The science behind sweden’s six-hour workday
This just in: 6 hours are better than 8. Wait, what?
How the ‘silo effect’ is hurting cross team collaboration
The phrase “silo effect” might sound a little eerie at first, like a reference to a creepy sci-fi movie that takes place on a farm. But what is it, really?
Why you need to train your brain to be more productive
Humans have a self-destructive love for quick fixes. Is this you? You don’t spend time developing systems (snooze), but you do read “53749 tips to boost your productivity” articles. It makes sense; you want to throw as much stuff at the wall and be pleased if anything sticks.
Diversity in our call for speakers at Atlassian Summit 2016
Preparations are well underway for Atlassian Summit 2016, our annual user conference. Our call for speakers is currently open, and we’re excited to welcome speakers with a range of experience and subject matter expertise to apply for one of our 7 tracks. We’re also excited this year to announce that we’ve re-vamped our speaker selection process, which we think will help us create the strongest, most diverse Summit lineup yet.
How to give your team meetings a status update
It’s 3 PM. The caffeine is kicking in from your afternoon coffee, but you can’t shake the feeling of dread as you drag yourself into your team’s weekly meeting. You know it’s going to carry on forever while simultaneously accomplishing nothing. You wonder, “Does it have to be this way?”
The invisible problem wrecking your productivity and how to stop it
In all of the myriad articles and advice on productivity, there is one evil lurking in our activities, one activity that when mastered, opens the door to potential productivity paradise. When it comes down to it, distractions (or lack thereof) are the real crux of working better. They’re a big culprit behind one of the worst productivity destroyers of the work day: context switching.
How to find your most productive hours
Not all hours are created equal. Sometimes an hour is enough to blaze through a massive project, and other times all you manage is to tiredly send a couple of unimportant emails.
All hands on deck: how Trello runs town halls
At Trello we have Town Hall meetings where everyone at the company is in attendance. They are an open forum for anyone to ask questions, discuss what’s on their mind, or share what the team is up to. No matter their role, everyone is on the same level during these meetings.
Announcing the Atlassian Opportunity Scholarship – a partnership with Galvanize
When I joined Atlassian in June as our first Global Diversity Programs Lead, it was clear to me that the company was full of incredible people who believe in our mission: to unleash the potential of every team. It was also clear that our leadership understood that diversity (and its close cousin, inclusion) need to be improved – and quickly. The biggest question was, “How?” What is the underlying principle we’ll use when defining and improving our diversity initiatives? Thankfully, I had to look no further than our mission.
Optimize your video conferences with Trello’s Google hangout and Appear.in integrations
5 easy steps to help your agile team run better sprint retrospectives
The agile development process is a fast-paced, iterative work environment that involves short sprint cycles and frequent deliverables. But does it actually work?
Webinar recap: Atlassian enterprise offerings
Our Atlassian Enterprise team recently hosted a live webinar to help our largest customers learn more about our enterprise offerings. Atlassian’s Otto Ruettinger, Jira Enterprise Principal Product Manager, took attendees through an overview of the Data Center deployment option, and how it provides the high availability and performance-at-scale enterprise customers need for Jira, Confluence, and Stash. Otto covered how to implement Data Center in a large organization, along with licensing and pricing.
Stash on Docker
Docker has been moving at ‘lightning speed’ and has been adopted by software development teams all over the world. Since the beginning, we at Atlassian, have been very excited about the potential of Docker. In fact, we wrote early on how to run Java in a Docker container, and created an internal self-service model to deploy applications on our cloud using Docker containers. We also experimented early with containerizing our products (see our experiments on bitbucket). We have been big fans of Docker, and I am proud to serve on Docker’s Advisory Board.
Confluence Data Center is available now!
Today, Confluence is joining Jira in offering the Data Center deployment option. Data Center was designed to meet the needs of our largest customers providing the performance at scale, high availability and instant scalability they need for business critical applications. Talking with our largest customers, we’ve learned that as Confluence adoption grows within an organization, teams become […]