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Getting started with Bitbucket Pipelines in Sourcetree
Modern software development practices like CI/CD and DevOps help the whole team be responsible for code quality. However, success in this environment depends on important information being accessible to everyone, instantly. Our Sourcetree team has taken this idea to heart in macOS by providing greater visibility into your builds, giving you more context and confidence […]
Better repository search and fork discovery come to Bitbucket Server 5.6
How long has your code base been around? Jira Software is our oldest project at Atlassian clocking in at 15 years old. That’s a lot of code, and more importantly a lot of repositories with the word “Jira” in the name! Our switch to Git, where it’s common to create more repositories with less code in each, didn’t help […]
How do emotions affect productivity? [New research]
This article was written with Prashant Kukde of DeepAffects. 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 […]
5 ways working remotely changed the way I think about teamwork
People talk a lot about remote work these days, but with most things, you never truly know until you’ve experienced it. I’ve learned quite a bit about remote teamwork along the way and I thought I’d share some lessons I learned as developer and architect.
How a large insurance company migrated to Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket Data Center in 3 months
“We’re migrating to Data Center products for Jira and Confluence. What does the migration involve, have other teams done it?”, asked an admin from a large company. Data Center is Atlassian’s enterprise product line for companies which self-host Atlassian applications on-premise or on AWS or Azure. These companies migrate from Server products to Data Center […]
Improve the license utilization of your Atlassian products with Crowd 3.1
We know that as your teams continue to grow and the number of products you own continues to increase, managing your users and planning license utilization for your products becomes even more complex. Are you utilizing your licenses for each product properly or do you often feel like you are wasting licenses? Today, in Crowd […]
The typography behind Trello
Over the past year, Trello’s design team has been working on an updated design system. Our goals for this tasty new design system are to create consistency, alignment, and efficiency across Trello.
When companies ban remote work in the name of collaboration, what are they really saying?
The debate over remote work rages on. At the heart of the issue is collaboration and, by extension, creativity, and innovation. How well can teammates really work together when they’re not in the same building? Don’t we need that intense level of interaction to spark new ideas? Surely, teams are more effective when they’re sitting side by […]
Forget about “fail fast” – just fail well
Go ahead, include it with the others. “Fail” has gone full buzzword. Shield your eyes (if you can) from the event banners, the blog post headers, the office posters, all with “fail” and “fail fast” writ large. Can’t we do better than grease the wheels of the failure bandwagon? Let’s forget failure. What matters is […]
Video tutorial: the Eisenhower matrix productivity method
The Eisenhower Matrix is a task prioritization technique that could be the answer to your overloaded to-do list and notification nightmares.
Your teams are getting better navigation in Jira Cloud
Over the past few years, we’ve reviewed thousands of customer responses that highlight a common theme: complexity and poor usability are the biggest challenges for teams using Jira. After rigorous testing and validation, we’re happy to announce that Jira Cloud will get an updated look and feel, including a collapsible sidebar navigation and enhanced search, […]
Pipelines manual steps for confidence in your deployment pipeline
Bitbucket Pipelines gives you the ability to build, test and deploy from directly within Bitbucket Cloud. Today, we’re excited to announce that you can now use manual steps in Bitbucket Pipelines. With manual steps, you can customize your CI/CD pipeline by configuring steps that will only be run when manually triggered by someone on your team. […]
More power and control in Jira Service Desk Server 3.9
The Jira Service Desk Server Team is committed to making it easier and faster for your teams to get stuff done. With the release of Jira Service Desk Server 3.9, we’ve made canned responses even more powerful, we’ve improved the automation around approvals, and we’ve introduced live monitoring with JMX. Read on to find out […]
Priority schemes have arrived in Jira Software Server 7.6
At Atlassian we often say customer feedback is a gift. It’s the guiding insight that helps us improve existing features, and an important factor in translating customer goals to our roadmap. In Jira Software Server 7.6 we’re delivering features requested, voted and discussed by you that help streamline work at scale. With that said, we have […]
