Is conflict killing your collaboration?
Actually, aggressive agreement is already doing it for you. Humans are hardwired to avoid conflict. Especially in the workplace, hostility is a threat that we avoid like the proverbial plague. But conflict can help. Questioning, disagreement, and argument can penetrate layers of opacity and get at the heart of matters. What’s more, conflict means people care. […]
UConn finally lost, but here’s why they’re still winners
Just after my first season coaching my seven-year-old son’s YMCA basketball team, a friend posted this video on Facebook: Geno Auriemma, the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Connecticut. His team’s 111-game winning streak, the longest in history, was recently snapped. My heart just soared watching this. First off, everything […]
Say sayonara to business jargon with corpspeak haiku
I know. Everybody’s too busy blowing things out of the water and knocking things out of the park to start talking and writing like actual humans. Well, guess what. The machines are coming, and they’re coming fast. If we don’t stop talking like machines and start re-engaging our clever human minds to come up with fresher […]
User testing in the software development process… when you don’t have a billion users
In DevOps circles, there’s a myth about the software development process: real software teams automate everything. Look at Facebook. Look at Google. Look at Etsy. Companies killing it at DevOps. Hundreds of deployments a day. Push-button, amazing, magical automation. And like many myths, there’s some truth to this one. Continuous integration, automated testing, and cloud-deployment […]
The me in team: personal productivity tips to boost your team game
You’ve heard a coach say: There ain’t no “I” in team! And that’s true enough. But, there is a “me.” (You take the m from the end and the e from the second position… oh, never mind.) At Atlassian, we believe good teams are made up of individuals with distinct strengths that collectively drive teamwork […]
Learn to create a marketing workflow in the new ebook
We created the ebook “Atlassian for marketing teams: workflows” to help you begin to visualize your work. A marketing workflow helps support your projects and get them moving along on time, with all the assets and feedback they require. The ebook will get your marketing team familiar with the concepts of visualizing and implementing a workflow, and it offers examples and tips to get you going, whether your project involves managing a complex process with loads of stakeholders, or something less involved. A blog marketing workflow is offered as a familiar example, and the ways tools like Confluence and Jira Core make it come to life.
How to use group chat to strengthen company culture
Think about how you communicate with the people on your team and in your company. In today’s offices, with distributed teams across the globe, we often don’t have the luxury of just walking up and saying, Yo. This inevitable lack of face time (to say nothing about the missed opportunities to practice your Rocky Balboa voice) leads to more impersonal forms of communication, like email. And over time, a disconnected feeling grows and it affects culture. So, if you can’t be together, you’ve got to replace that feeling of being together. A great way to do this is with group chat, because it encourages communication. And company culture is rooted in the ways teammates and coworkers communicate.
6 call-outs from the Summit 2015 keynote address
Highlights from the Summit 2015 keynote address including Hipchat Connect, Jira Software, Jira Core, Jira and Confluence for iOS, the Health Monitor, Room to Read, and Pledge 1%.
How to document releases and share release notes with Confluence
If you track and report most of your work in Jira, the integration between Confluence and Jira makes it easy to insert your release results straight from Jira into a Confluence page, where you can add more color and detail, publish internally, and also make them publicly available.
Creating insightful customer interview pages using Confluence
Using Confluence to document and share customer interviews can help with every step of the process, including using feedback to create better products. Check out these design tips and best practices for creating customer interview pages.
Put your Confluence 101 knowledge to the test
Take the Confluence 101 quiz and see how much you’ve learned about Confluence!
Still building software with sticky notes?
Not anymore at Trulia. “The days of managing work items with sticky notes and a bunch of fragmented tools are long gone,” says Nate Van Dusen, Trulia’s Engineering Program Management Director. Like so many companies, Trulia’s success and growth meant they had to adapt to meet new challenges to stay successful. What they wanted was […]