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  • Lateral career moves: can moving sideways help you move up?

    Lateral career moves: can moving sideways help you move up?

    In the world of work, where we are inundated with advice on winning promotions and negotiating raises, vertical movement seems like the only goal worth…

  • Conway’s Law: the little-known principle that influences your work more than you think

    Conway’s Law: the little-known principle that influences your work more than you think

    An organization’s output is directly related to how it communicates internally. The Australia Centre for the Moving Image harnessed this fact for an epic redesign.

  • The Top 10 Ways Loom Uses Async Video at Work

    Loom’s team—now numbering over 175—is all-remote and based in 11 countries. We’re continually optimizing and experimenting with how to use both sync and async tools.…

  • How to Decide When to Use Sync vs. Async

    One way we’re working to operationalize async vs. sync at work is by creating clear guidelines for when and how we balance the two. By…

  • How to overcome the Sunday Scaries with Trello

    How to overcome the Sunday Scaries with Trello

    Do you ever feel that pit in your stomach on Sundays and can’t understand why? Or maybe you do know—it’s because you’re dreading Monday morning…

  • Getting Noticed: Key Tips for App Discoverability

    Getting Noticed: Key Tips for App Discoverability

    Drive views, installations and engagement on the Atlassian Marketplace For many of our Marketplace Partners, developing and submitting an app is only half the battle.…

  • The Case for Modern Work

    The Case for Modern Work

    The first step is to identify and examine the roadblocks in front of us, then design approaches at an organizational and individual level to maximize…

  • How our tiny hackathon turned into a quarterly creativity fest

    How our tiny hackathon turned into a quarterly creativity fest

    It started as 14 developers arguing over bug fixes, but it morphed into a bona fide global innovation contest.

  • The Trello power-ups, templates, and features that every hr team needs

    The Trello power-ups, templates, and features that every hr team needs

    From hiring to onboarding to culture-building, you and your HR team have a lot on your plates. 

  • Discover, try, buy, repeat: a radically empowering approach to B2B sales

    Discover, try, buy, repeat: a radically empowering approach to B2B sales

    Here’s how to grow your customer base through frictionless self-service.

  • Lessons on Taking the Leap into Entrepreneurship with Amaresh Ray

    Lessons on Taking the Leap into Entrepreneurship with Amaresh Ray

    Amaresh Ray is someone who leaves you feeling inspired, energized and motivated to change the course of your career when you first meet him. We…

  • Why your enterprise needs an internal knowledge base (& how to build one in Trello)

    Why your enterprise needs an internal knowledge base (& how to build one in Trello)

    You’ve heard the age-old axiom: knowledge is power. But while the fundamental concept may be true, the assertion comes with a couple of large caveats.…

  • Migration is an opportunity to up your business game

    Migration is an opportunity to up your business game

    Migration isn’t a 1:1 move from server to cloud. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

  • Better views for you (and your team)

    Better views for you (and your team)

    The end of the year is suddenly near. Projects with loose ends, ship dates loom, key meetings (or maybe virtual parties) are in flight, and…

  • Log4Shell fix with the Bitbucket Cloud and Snyk integration

    Log4Shell fix with the Bitbucket Cloud and Snyk integration

    By now, you’re probably assessing your level of exposure — or are in the middle of remediating — the recently disclosed vulnerability known as Log4Shell. …