Codegeist is back – Let’s get developing!
We’re proud to announce the return of Codegeist, Atlassian’s development competition. Whether you’re a seasoned Atlassian add-on developer or just trying out our platform, Codegeist is a great way to win cool prizes for your code. How to enter We want to make it easy to participate in Codegeist, so there’s no need to register […]
Have you hugged your admin lately?
This is a guest post from Daniel Wester, co-founder of Wittified LLC. Check them out on the Atlassian Marketplace. Administering Jira, Confluence, Stash, or another Atlassian product can sometimes seem like a thankless job. As an admin you have a number of responsibilities: training new users, providing best practices, and continually evaluating add-ons and product […]
New in the Marketplace: Top Vendor
The Atlassian Marketplace is proud to announce a new way to make it easier for Atlassian customers to find great apps – Top Vendor. Top Vendor (previously Atlassian Verified) is a program to call out vendors on the Marketplace who meet high standards of traction, reliability, and support. In the Atlassian Marketplace, you will now […]
Introducing Atlassian Connect 1.0
The future of add-ons for Jira, Confluence, and beyond. Today, we’re proud to announce the general availability of Atlassian Connect – a completely new way to build add-ons in the cloud for Jira and Confluence OnDemand. It’s easy to get started, and you can write in the development language of your choice. And there’s already […]
3 ways to get more from Jira and Confluence
This is a guest post from Remie Bolte of CollabSoft, an Atlassian Expert and developer of 10 add-ons on the Atlassian Marketplace. In my time as a software developer, I have worked with a number of traditional software teams that made the move to agile development and switched to Jira to track their work. That […]
Feed your wallboard
Any agile coach (except perhaps Chet Rong) will tell you that there are a few critical keys to doing agile right: Don’t depend on email and spreadsheets; collaborate on work with an issue tracker. A short daily stand-up is important to keep everyone up to date on progress and identify dependencies. Display all critical team […]
Win prizes for organizing Jira issues with Structure
This is a guest post from ALM Works, makers of the Structure add-on for Jira. ALM Works is thrilled to announce a new coding contest for developers to extend and integrate with Structure, our best-selling issue organization add-on for Jira. If you’re a developer who uses Structure – or a Structure user with access to a friendly […]
Take Confluence to the next level with RefinedWiki Original Theme 4
This is a guest post from RefinedWiki, the team behind Original Theme for Confluence, one of the best-selling Confluence add-ons of all time. Last month we released RefinedWiki Original Theme 4.0, a Confluence plugin that lets you organize content and skin it with our pre-designed themes. With every release from Atlassian, Confluence gets more friendly for everyone in the company, […]
Car accident? Jira to the rescue!
This is a guest blog from Kepler-Rominfo, makers of the JJUPIN scripting add-on for Jira. What do cars and Jira have in common? Here in Romania, Jira has a lot to do with car accidents. Don’t worry, distracted drivers aren’t causing pileups while filing Jira issues from their mobile phones (at least as far as […]
Collaborating with boards and cards in Confluence OnDemand
This is a guest blog from Comalatech, makers of Canvas for Confluence OnDemand and Ad hoc Workflows and Ad hoc Canvas for Confluence download. We launched Canvas for Confluence OnDemand at this year’s Summit in October. Canvas allows you to create simple boards to add to your pages in Confluence OnDemand. With boards and cards, Canvas helps you brainstorm and visualize your ideas in […]
15 Steps to Atlassian Marketplace Success
Bob Swift of Bob Swift Software is a long-established presence in the Atlassian developer ecosystem. His add-ons for Confluence and Jira – including the Table Plugin, SQL Plugin, and Excel Plugin – collectively have hundreds of thousands of downloads, and tons of Atlassian customers. Bob has built an extraordinarily successful business on top of the Atlassian Marketplace. In […]
Angry Cookies: Solving the EU’s “cookie directive” for Jira
This is a guest blog from InTENSO, makes of Angry Cookies for Jira. Do you know what the “cookie directive” is? The “cookie directive,” also known as Directive 2009/136/EC, defines consent requirements for cookies across the European Union (EU). Specifically, paragraph 26 says: “Member states shall ensure that the storing of information, or the gaining […]
Code Your Flowcharts
This is a guest blog from Damian Kaczmarek, CEO of Rapid Technology Solutions, makers of the code2flow for Confluence and code2flow for Jira. Have you ever thought about why creating flowcharts and other diagrams is so time consuming? Most diagramming software requires a lot of manual work–placing each element on a canvas and connecting it to […]
Guest blog: test management for agile teams
This is a guest blog post from Zephyr, makers of Zephyr for Jira. The value of test management software in agile development Today’s software developers and quality assurance teams face far different challenges than their predecessors. Balancing the need for speedy development cycles with the desire to keep costs down has led software developers to […]
Getting More Out of Jira with Interactive Visualizations
This guest post comes courtesy of Andrew Mottaz, part of the team behind Protoshare and their new add-on in the Atlassian Marketplace, Protoshare for Jira. It’s difficult for end users or other stakeholders to really know what they want from software until they see it, experience it and use it. Whether you are an Agile shop […]