Visualize Your Roadmap
Backlog weighing you down? One of the most common challenges agile teams face is this: they lose the big picture. It’s hard to stay motivated if you only see small pieces–sprints and stories–and not the entire product your team is building. Team members need to be part of the vision and not just authors of arbitrary […]
Announcing the Winners of Codegeist 2013!
We wrapped up the seventh iteration of Atlassian’s add-on development contest, Codegeist, a few weeks ago. The contest ran from February 1 to May 31 and saw our developer ecosystem contribute close to 100 completely new add-ons to the Atlassian Marketplace. Devs could build whatever type of add-on they wanted–plugin, integration, client, mobile app, or anything else they could think […]
How to Manage Complex, Versioned Content in Confluence
This is a guest post from K15t Software, Atlassian Experts and makers of Scroll Office, Scroll Versions, Scroll PDF Exporter, and many other Confluence add-ons. If you manage complex content in Confluence, Scroll Versions is a must-have add-on for keeping your Confluence instance organized. With it, you can manage concurrent versions of pages or product […]
Workflow Your Blueprints
Introducing Workflows For Your Blueprints Following the succesful release of Ad hoc Canvas Blueprints for Confluence 5.1, Comalatech have now integrated Ad hoc Workflows functionality directly into Confluence Blueprints. Blueprints provide your organization with ideas and structure so you can get started creating Confluence content right away. Ad hoc Workflows helps you to automate reviews, approvals and publishing. Workflow Your Blueprints […]
Skiblz Cam for Jira: Codegeist’s $10K March Prize Winner
Back in February, we launched the latest edition of Atlassian’s add-on development competition, Codegeist. We invited developers everywhere to build add-ons for Jira, Confluence, Stash, and our developer tools, with the promise of $65,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to sell their add-on commercially on the Atlassian Marketplace. Last month, we announced Content Scheduler for Confluence as our […]
Guest Blog: Monitoring Your Teams Estimation Skills
Yves Riel acts as a Scrum Coach to help teams learn the Scrum methodology. Yves has actively been using Jira and GreenHopper since 2009. He built Rekall for Jira to help agile teams improve their estimates. Every year, I try to make an appointment with my doctor for an annual check-up. Invariably, I walk out […]
View Visio Diagrams Free in Confluence with Lucidchart
This is a guest blog from Ryan Butters, VP of Sales and Marketing for Lucidchart, a vendor in the Atlassian Marketplace and makes of Lucidchart for Confluence. Lucidchart is proud to announce a free Visio Viewer plugin for Confluence. The viewing functionality is bundled with our diagramming application, but you won’t need to pay a […]
Add Boards to Confluence with Canvas Blueprints
This is a guest blog post from Comalatech, makers of the Ad hoc Workflows and Ad hoc Canvas add-ons for Atlassian Confluence. Confluence 5.1, released last week, introduced Confluence Blueprints–out-of-the-box solutions to common business problems. Blueprints make creating amazing wiki content easy and provide ideas and structure so your organization can get started right away. Comalatech developed […]
Content Scheduler for Confluence: February’s Codegeist Add-on of the Month
On February 1, we launched the latest addition of Atlassian’s add-on development competition, Codegeist. We invited developers everywhere to build add-ons for Jira, Confluence, Stash, and our developer tools, with the promise of $65,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to sell their add-on commercially on the Atlassian Marketplace. This year’s prize format is a little different–we’re awarding […]
Project Portfolio Management in Jira with Profields 2.5
This is a guest post from Guillermo Montoya, CEO of DEISER, an Atlassian Platinum Expert and makers of Profields for Jira. We’re very excited to launch Profields 2.5 for Jira, our most ambitious add-on yet! Here’s why: Profields 2.5 adds four great features that are essential to turning Jira into a tool any organization can use for Project Portfolio Management […]
It Gets Better – The Best Confluence Add-ons are Already Available for Confluence 5
Confluence 5…You have to see it to believe it. A ground up overhaul of the UI. A new global header. A simplified, always-present ‘Create’ button. The new space sidebar. It’s literally bursting at the seams with updates. And people are taking notice. If you’re a current customer, don’t let add-ons hold you back from upgrading. Over 100 of your favorite […]
Get More from Your Intranet: Poll Your Colleagues in Confluence
Meet in the morning or over lunch? Pizza or sandwiches? Team happy hour this Friday or next? These are just a few of the critical decisions that teams make every day. Confluence powers thousands of company intranets around the world, enabling coworkers to share information and discuss topics together. Simple decisions, like what to have for lunch, […]
Codegeist is Back! Atlassian’s Developer Competition Returns
Codegeist: The Next Generation Codegeist, Atlassian’s add-on development competition, is back on! The seventh iteration of the world’s best development competion began February 1 and goes until May 31. What’s at stake? $65,000 USD in prizes for members of the Atlassian ecosystem, both new and old. This time, we’re giving out a prize for each month of […]
Improving Agile Estimation via Triangulation
Yves Riel has been exploring Scrum by participating as a team member, a Scrum Master and a Product Owner. He also acts as a Scrum Coach to help teams learn the Scrum methodology. Yves has actively been using Jira and GreenHopper since 2009. Benjamin Franklin once said that there were two certainties in this world: […]
Admin Love, User Power: Atlassian Releases Universal Plugin Manager 2.8
As a company, few things make we Atlassians prouder than our amazing ecosystem of developers building add-ons for our products. So, tucked away in a corner of our San Francisco office, the Atlassian Ecosystem dev team quietly works to ensure that the integration between third-party add-ons and our core products is absolutely seamless. And they’re […]