Win at quarterly planning by avoiding these OKR mistakes
OKRs are a great tool for quarterly planning. But let’s face it: they can trip you up at first. Set yourself up for success with these 8 tips.
Volunteer time off: giving employees a perk that gives back
Volunteer time off (VTO) is the hottest trend in employee perks. But does paying your employees to volunteer in their community really pay off?
5 project prioritization lessons from the pros
Prioritizing project work with your team can be an exercise in frustration. (Been there!) Here’s how to avoid 5 common mistakes.
Can the future of tech include Autism Spectrum Disorder?
“Don’t worry. You can always get a job as a programmer where you won’t have to talk to anybody.” –conventional wisdom
13 books that disrupt stereotypes and build emotional intelligence
There are so many experiences that can be understood through literature. When we access those stories, we push back on ignorance and build the emotional intelligence that is so important for personal and professional success.
Boiling the ocean with Portfolio for Jira: adventures in capacity planning
[Captain’s log August 1, 2117 – somewhere off the Gold Coast. What follows is an account of how I created the agile capacity plan for building the software that will power our mission to boil the oceans – and save humanity.] . . . If you’re reading this, it means our mission failed and the crew is […]
DevOps vs. compliance: a guide to having it all
The miasma of compliance documentation alone is enough to drain a person’s soul. Thank goodness for DevOps.
A message to our RSS subscribers
Greetings, readers! As part of overhauling the Atlassian Blog, we’ve moved our RSS feeds away from Feedburner – an open source system that was deprecated years ago. If you’d like to keep getting posts via RSS, please switch your subscription to this feed: To receive all posts, subscribe to https://atlstg.reaktivdev.com/feed What’s happening with the legacy […]
How to manage projects like an actual project manager
So. You have to manage a project, and you’re not a project manager by trade. I’ve been there. It’s pretty daunting, with all these different frameworks and methodologies to consider… But if you’re like me, you don’t really care about methodology. You just want to deliver your project successfully, and not lose your mind in the process. […]
What I want other parents to know about women in tech
On the go? You can listen to this blog, read by the author, using the player below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311716129″ params=”color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] I’m a 16-year veteran of the tech world, a “recovering coder,” and the mother of a 6-year-old girl. And if I was looking at tech from the outside, I would be […]
Moving down the corporate ladder
On the go? You can listen to this blog using the player below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311607484″ params=”color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] “I don’t think I’ve been doing a very good job lately.” Not the way I usually kick off 1-on-1 meetings with my boss. But that day, it’s what needed to be said. I’d been managing […]
Atlassian blog update
Dear Readers, Blog team here, with a quick update on how we are managing the Atlassian blog. Starting Friday, September 30th, we will be turning off commenting on the blog. It’s not that we don’t want to talk to you – we do! But, we want to make sure that you are able to get answers […]
Inside Atlassian: tracking blog categories and performance with Jira custom fields
I can hold my own with math and numbers, but I don’t love them. I have to admit though, I’m starting to love data. Like many marketers, I spend a lot of time thinking about blogs. And blogging itself is becoming increasingly data-informed (if not fully data-driven, but that’s another story). How awesome is it that […]
Super-powered continuous delivery with Git
Developing as a team can be messy. You’re trying to understand which pieces of code everyone is working on, trying to make sure changes don’t conflict, trying to find defects before your customers do, and trying to keep everyone connected with the project up to date on how things are progressing. As it turns out, each of those problems is addressed by either Git branching or continuous delivery.
Inside Atlassian: Jira workflows for tracking blog projects
Chances are, your marketing team manages blog projects on spreadsheets. You probably track who is working on it, what state it’s in, when it’s going to be published, what it’s about, how it fits into larger marketing campaigns… And that’s just the stuff you’re concerned with before it’s published. It’ll come as no surprise that Atlassian’s marketing team uses Jira Core, Confluence, and Hipchat to keep our blogs running smoothly. So today I’m going to get all meta with a blog about how we use Jira Core, including some example workflows, to track our blogs.