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ShipIt Episode V: The XMPP Strikes Back
Last week we held Atlassian’s fifth “Fedex”. Originally Fedex Day, the new expanded Fedex gives all developers at Atlassian a day and a half work on anything they like, provided they can deliver it for demonstration at the end of Friday.
Keep 'em clean, boys.
On Tuesday, I was invited to observe the inaugural Jira process meeting, in which the Jira development team discussed various ways they could improve the way they produce software.
Confluence 2.4 – Baby Steps
We just knew that for us, eight months was far too much time between drinks. Following the advice of the Extreme Programmers, we decided to turn the knobs up to eleven and see what happened. If a short release cycle was a good idea, how about a really short release cycle? Say… six weeks of development?
The Confluence Development Team
From left to right: Don, Sam, Dave, Matt, Chris, Tom, Charles, Agnes and Jens. Thanks to the guys from Tangosol for the t-shirts!
Effective Jira Issues
Filing effective issues is incredibly important. Every product has a lot of issues in the database, and a lot more get filed every day. The more accurate detail is in each issue, the more efficiently we can deal with them, and the more likely it is that the issue will be resolved sooner.