4 ways prototyping untangles your product requirements
As a writer with over 10 years of experience in product management, Germaine loves to share resources that help agile PMs. Check out her recent ebook Prototyping for Product Managers. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype must be worth a hundred thousand pages of a requirements document. While a requirements […]
A new way to use Confluence: employee training
This is a guest post written by Katerina Kolina, product owner of Quizzes for Confluence at StiltSoft. StiltSoft is an Atlassian Expert, and a Verified Vendor on the Atlassian Marketplace where they have 15 add-ons for Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket. Every team needs to be well-trained in order to succeed. Be it onboarding new team members, adjusting […]
Codegeist 2016: help teams work better
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89MoWzAlLZo&w=560&h=315] We’re happy to announce Codegeist, Atlassian’s 9th add-on online hackathon. Add-ons allow you to extend Jira and other Atlassian products with even more functionality. You can find over 2,000 add-ons in the Atlassian Marketplace. Have an idea about how to make Jira, Confluence, Hipchat, or Bitbucket even better? Build an add-on or find […]
Meet the winners of AtlasCamp’s ShipIt Live!
Back in May, Atlassian hosted AtlasCamp 2016 in the beautiful city of Barcelona. It was our biggest and best developer conference yet, with over 500 developers and vendors from Europe and beyond in attendance. This year’s event featured two packed developer tracks, certification, and marketing training, Expert Partner and an AUG leader day, a women-in-tech […]
Ideas to optimize your planning poker sessions
This is a guest post by Vitalii Zurian, a software engineer and the creator of a series of agile add-ons for Jira Cloud, including the #1 paid add-on, Planning Poker. Vitalli blogs at agilevalues.com. As your team matures and becomes more experienced, you’d think your estimates and planning poker sessions would improve as well. Seems […]
Bridging the gap between content and design with wireframes
We all know that the success of any project hangs on having the right teams and processes in place. But sometimes, this can feel like an unreachable goal when it comes to the day-to-day of project management. However, establishing common techniques for communicating and transitioning assets can smooth out this process and create a better experience for everyone involved. One of these techniques centers around creating wireframes, or rough visualizations of a concept or user interface.
Know thy customer: agile’s essential guide to user story maps
A story map is a visual representation of the journey a customer takes with a product, including activities and tasks they complete. Agile teams create the story map in a collaborative session to ensure they have a shared understanding of the customer and their desired outcomes. Today I’ll show you the basics of user story mapping and why it’s a worthwhile endeavour for your agile team.
Three DevOps principles to streamline your operations team
In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the three underlying principles of DevOps created by entrepreneur and IT operations extraordinaire, Gene Kim. These principles describe the values and philosophies that frame the processes and practices from which all DevOps patterns are derived. We’ll also give you some helpful tips and show you a few add-ons from the Atlassian Marketplace to get the most out of these DevOps principles.
Living long and prospering with long-lived Git branches
This is a guest blog post by Holger Just from Plan.io, the creators of Planio for Bitbucket Cloud. It’s generally considered best practice to keep Git branches short-lived. But that approach won’t work for every team or every situation. I know this because it doesn’t work for my team. You see, our Git workflows include […]
4 ways to enhance product documentation for mobile first
If your company has made the switch to a mobile-first strategy, make sure you don’t leave your product documentation behind. Your customers are increasingly accessing product information on their phones, making a seamless mobile experience more important than ever. These four tips will help give your customers a great mobile experience. Plus, check out the Instant Websites for Confluence Cloud add-on which turns any Confluence space (such as your documentation) into a super-fast, static website that looks beautiful on mobile.
Making the shift to behavior driven development
Many years ago, some smart people devised a better way to develop software quickly and with high quality using a test-first methodology in place of a traditional requirements-driven approach. But businesses quickly realized it didn’t give them the visibility and coverage they needed for the most important business cases in their systems. So, a variant was born called behavior driven development (BDD). Now, organizations could push features quickly with quality AND confidence that they met end user expectations.
5 tips for building the right diagram for your business challenge
A quick look at the Atlassian marketplace reveals that diagramming tools are some of the most popular add-ons available. There’s a reason for that: complicated tasks and concepts are often better expressed visually. Who wants read walls of text or a tab-filled spreadsheet? In the human brain, visuals are processed 60,000x faster than text, so organizing information in the most digestible way is a huge communication advantage.
Marketplace monthly: the latest add-ons, including Uber!
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Wouldn’t it be awesome if (insert Atlassian product) did…” there’s a good chance that someone else had the same thought and built an add-on to do exactly what you want. Welcome to the Atlassian Marketplace: home to thousands of add-ons for your favorite Atlassian products.