You’re wrong, and that’s alright
Author and entrepreneur Shane Snow shares why you should argue against yourself in order to develop better ideas.
My daughters are coding, thanks to Minecraft and slime
Holding kids’ attention may be the hardest part of teaching coding skills. For one mom, the solution was to help her girls hack their favorite game.
5 things to do when your team is under pressure
[cta]We all deal with stressful situations at work. These are the times teamwork comes to the fore. Will you band together and figure it out? Or freak out and fall apart? That’s what our Atlassian Workplace Experience team put to the test at our annual company team building event: Big Bash. Atlassians were given a […]
Is your team making bad decisions? The culprit is likely your conversations
“Oh no, here we go again,” thought Laura as she sat in her weekly engineering meeting. Two of her engineers, Rob and Rachel were at it again. Arguing back and forth, over and over, about which framework they should choose for their next big project. She had seen this many times before. Team meetings where […]
How do emotions affect productivity? [New research]
This article was written with Prashant Kukde of DeepAffects. [cta]There’s a long-held expectation that people should keep their emotions out of the workplace. I’m sure you’ve heard it at some point: keep a firm boundary between your personal and professional life. The problem is, this is not actually possible or even helpful to productivity. Human […]
Don’t know how to get feedback at work? Here are some practical ways to start
Peer feedback is so important to your career growth and development. But, what’s the best way to ask for it? Most companies have at least a yearly performance review process but in reality, the best way to continually grow and learn from your experiences at work is by getting feedback on a regular basis. Kim […]
Why everyone in IT should think like a product manager
“The first thing we think about is: What do our users want? What do they need to get the job done? And, how are we going to deliver that?” No, this is not a Product Manager at a company like Facebook, Amazon, or the next hot startup. This is Ross Chippendale, the Head of Workplace […]
Why developing grit is the best thing you can do for your career and your team
There’s a new trait rising in the ranks of what makes a person successful and no, it’s not IQ – it’s grit. A few years ago, Angela Duckworth, former teacher-turned-professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, became fascinated with what makes students successful. After many studies of middle school students in Chicago to West […]
How Kiva is ending poverty through personal connection
In rural Zimbabwe, Lindiwe walks a worn, dirt path to her store. It’s a path she has walked all her life, growing up in her small town. She knows every twist and turn, the feel of the soft dirt under her feet. The path eventually takes her to the center of her village, a small […]
What self-driving cars can teach us about software testing
This is a guest post written by Hamesh Chawla, VP of Engineering, at Zephyr. Hamesh is responsible for the worldwide engineering function at Zephyr and brings over 18 years of engineering, mobile, and networking technology experience to his role. Outside of work, Hamesh enjoys golfing, playing tennis, and spending time with his two daughters. Autonomous […]
DevOps Maturity Model report: trends and best practices in 2017
DevOps has been a cultural force in the world of software and operations for 10 years. Like many grassroots movements, DevOps practices have been slowly but steadily gaining traction among operations and software teams in all sorts of industries. But where has 10 years of cultural change, infrastructure improvement, and tooling gotten us? To answer […]
4 simple collaboration strategies for distributed teams
This is a guest post by Simon Herd, Co-founder and CEO of ThinkTilt, creators of ProForma. ProForma provides an extensive library of easy-to-use, customizable forms to bring the functionality and convenience of Jira Service Desk to all business teams. We are everywhere. Well, maybe not everywhere, but we do have a team that is spread […]
12 essential skills you need in a help desk job
Working at a help desk or in a support role is a great way to be tapped into the core of any business: customers and products. In a help desk job, you get to connect with customers, understand their experience with your company, and get to know the product inside and out. It takes a […]
Establishing a single source of truth across the product organization
Josh Elman, Partner at Greylock Ventures, once said that the most important thing a product manager does is document decisions. Document decisions – really? With all the things a PM has to do, from setting the product roadmap, to aligning with the strategy of the business and the needs of the customers, it can be […]