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Kotlin at Trello

This post is intended to be a sequel to the Talking Kotlin podcast episode that featured Huyen Tue Dao and me. We recorded it in May 2017. If you haven’t given it a listen, go check it out! A quick recap from the conversation: We started using Kotlin in October of 2016, right around when Kotlin 1.0.4 was announced. […]

How to easily plan a remote team offsite (hint: crowdsource it)

Trello’s marketing team is remotely distributed, so our annual offsite is the opportunity for everyone on the team to connect in person. Those connections and good vibes carry forward for many months to come as we strive to assume positive intent in all of our interactions.

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15 hot takes on the future of agile

#IWish there was another kind of Agile besides just Scrum and Kanban. #RetroOnAgile — Dan Chuparkoff (@Chuparkoff) January 28, 2018 Agile is about to reach its 20th birthday. Software teams, support teams, and even marketing teams have been practicing its rules and principles for years. These teams have built some amazing products thanks to agile […]

Automate tasks with AWS Systems Manager and Opsgenie Actions: a use case

In this scenario, we will discuss automating the process of disabling public access for a security group.

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Why you should learn more about agile HR

This is a guest post by Alexis Croswell, Content Marketing Manager at Culture Amp. The concepts behind agile development have proven so successful, other teams, like HR, are starting to adopt the agile philosophy. You’ve likely seen some great articles on agile software development, which was created as a way to meet the rapidly changing […]

Cross functional collaboration ftw with Trello and Confluence

Some group decisions are always difficult to make and often leave someone unsatisfied. We’re not just talking about choosing between Sushi or Italian, although that is quite the conundrum. When it comes to collaborating with teams across functions or departments at work, it seems like everyone has their own preferences on how to get more done.

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10 ways to tell if your team trusts you as a leader

Trust makes your job as a leader easier in just about every way possible. Your teams make decisions faster (and revisit them less often). People pro-actively admit to and learn from mistakes instead of scrambling to hide them. It’s easy enough to know your own level of trust in the people you lead. But gauging […]

Where do your Trello feature requests go? How we unite support and product

If you’ve ever sent a feature request to Trello, you may have gotten a note back saying that we’d pass it along to the team for consideration. Depending on your level of cynicism, you may or may not have believed that part, but we are sincere!

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How Thrillist merged into Group Nine Media and scaled its planning process with Portfolio for Jira

Aligning plans across an organization, staying up to date on progress, and then communicating that progress to stakeholders – simple, right? Anyone who has been tasked with this responsibility across multiple teams knows there’s often pain associated with it. Once upon a time, the way that Thrillist dealt with this challenge was by entering issues […]

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Feeling scattered? Regain your focus with these 5 rituals

If there’s anyone out there not feeling dizzy after a topsy-turvy 2017, I’ll eat my hat. (Also, would you please share the secret to your serenity?) Between the debate over remote work, Facebook’s near-daily changes affecting branded content, and the fact that robots might take our jobs, we’re being pulled in a hundred different directions. Not to […]

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Coming from Hipchat? What to know and <3 in Stride

Hi, Hipchat friends! We’re so happy you’re checking out Stride. Whether you know it or not, you’ve been instrumental in making Stride come to life. All features, designs, and functionality were created with you in mind. Stride has all the features you relied on in Hipchat Cloud, like group chat, direct messaging, and video chat. […]

Get your priorities in order this new year with Jira Service Desk Server 3.10

Since the announcement of priority schemes in Jira Software Server 7.6, the Jira Service Desk team has been working hard to bring priority schemes to Jira Service Desk. Today, we’re super excited to announce the release of Jira Service Desk Server 3.10, with the introduction of priority schemes, better notification management (the #1 voted issue on our public issue tracker) […]

New employee onboarding: a success template for every hire

Employee onboarding is more than job training and management: it’s personal. When it comes to new hires, it isn’t all just handshakes and health insurance forms. These are the newest members of your team we’re talking about.

4 Atlassian tips to bring your service and development teams together

We’ve been hard at work for over 15 years building software to help you collaborate better. But if you work on an IT or customer support team, you know it takes more than the right software to build a culture of collaboration between your service teams and dev teams. You also need to have a set of […]

Take to-do’s to Trello: all the ways to send tasks to your board

Does it ever feel like just when you think you’ve got everything under control, you turn your back for a split second and suddenly tasks and requests start flying in from every direction?