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Do Agile Right Webinar Recap – Q&A with two Atlassian software engineers

In February, two of our very own Atlassian Confluence developers, Anatoli Kazatchkov and Edith Tom, hosted a live webinar sharing agile best practices for software development that they’ve learned over the years. They talked about: Spiking new features and running shorter sprints Running frequent demos, dogfooding, and shipping frequently Empowering developers, open communication, and continuous improvement Using Jira and Confluence for Agile software […]

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Introducing Team Calendars 4.2: Speed, performance, scale

In the last two years we’ve pumped Confluence Team Calendars full of new features over the course of 22 releases. We’re proud of our development speed and happy about how far the product has come in such a short time. In our latest release, Team Calendars 4.2, we haven’t delivered a new feature, we’ve delivered all of […]

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Do Agile Right Webinar recap – Q&A with Atlassian product managers

In January, two of our very own Atlassian Confluence product managers, Sherif Mansour and John Masson, hosted a live webinar where they shared agile best practices that they’ve learned over the years, including: When to write product requirements documents and when to seek alternatives How to write effective product requirements documents How to build prototypes when designing new features Using Jira and Confluence for […]

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Watch the Do Agile Right webinar – Lessons learned from an Atlassian marketing manager

It’s not just development teams that have the choice to go agile – Every team can, especially a marketing team. Yesterday, two of our very own Atlassian Confluence product marketers, Matt Hodges and John Wetenhall, hosted a live webinar sharing Agile best practices for product marketing that they’ve learned over the years, including: Agile basics like […]

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Watch the Do Agile Right webinar – Q&A with Atlassian product managers

Three weeks ago two of our very own Atlassian Confluence product managers, Sherif Mansour and John Masson, hosted a live webinar sharing Agile best practices that they’ve learned over the years, including: When to write product requirements documents, and when to seek alternatives How to write effective product requirements documents How to build prototypes when designing new features Using Jira and Confluence […]

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Watch the Do Agile Right webinar – Lessons learned from an Atlassian software engineer

Yesterday, two of our very own Atlassian Confluence developers, Anatoli Kazatchkov and Edith Tom, hosted a live webinar sharing agile best practices for software development that they’ve learned over the years. They talked about: Spiking new features and running shorter sprints Running frequent demos, dogfooding, and shipping frequently Empowering developers, open communication, and continuous improvement Using Jira […]

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Watch the Do Agile Right webinar – Lessons learned from an Atlassian product manager

Yesterday, two of our very own Atlassian Confluence product managers, Sherif Mansour and John Masson, hosted a live webinar where they shared agile best practices that they’ve learned over the years, including: When to write product requirements documents and when to seek alternatives How to write effective product requirements documents How to build prototypes when designing […]

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Join us for the Do Agile Right webinar series

There are no right answers when it comes to how teams plan, build, and launch great software. Every team and situation is different, making your process inherently different as well. The title of this webinar series might be a little misleading because there isn’t one way or a best way to do agile. The agile methodology provides a number […]

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7 new year’s resolutions for team collaboration in 2014

The new year is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It’s the reason your gym is so crowded with people you’ve never seen before. Here are a couple resolutions you should consider making with your team so you can work better together in 2014. 1. Centralize your team’s information Regardless of what team […]

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5 ways to work with Jira issues in Confluence

Half of the teams that use Jira also use Confluence. Development teams live in Jira where they track their work; The rest of the business lives in Confluence where everyone collaborates around requirements, documentation, marketing plans, sales reports, and anything else. We’ve worked hard over the last year to bring Jira into Confluence like never […]

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Confluence 5.4: Integrated with Jira like never before

Software development is intensely collaborative, requiring the effort of numerous people on many different teams. With so many stakeholders, it’s difficult to maintain speed, transparency, and quality when shipping code. Most development teams accept these things as facts of life when building software, but this doesn’t have to be the case any longer. Building better […]

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Publish Jira reports in Confluence, fast

One out of every two Confluence customers also uses Jira. Development teams live in Jira where they track their work; the rest of the business lives in Confluence where everyone collaborates around requirements, documentation, marketing plans, sales reports, and everything else. You’ve told us you need an easy way communicate the work that your development […]

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Do agile right. Run retrospectives in Confluence

There’s so much to do that it’s not unusual for a team to finish a project and immediately start on a new one, leaving little time to reflect and improve. Agile methodology preaches continuous improvement, which means running retrospectives after each sprint or project to identify strengths and learn from mistakes so your team stops […]

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New in Confluence: Promote blueprints and page templates in your spaces

Six months ago we gave you Confluence Blueprints – ready-made solutions to common business problems in the workplace. It started with blueprints for meeting notes, product requirements, and file lists. Then, we added blueprints for decisions and shared links, as well as how-to and troubleshooting articles for teams using Confluence as a knowledge base. Having lots of choices is great, but depending […]

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New in Confluence: Request access to view restricted pages

Tell me this has never happened to you before: A co-worker shares a page with you or @mentions you in one. You click the link eager to see what’s so important. You get an error message because the page has view restrictions. Frustrated, you email said person asking for access. Said person edits the page’s restrictions and gives you […]