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An agile workflow that keeps tasks flexible in Trello

The agile workflow has long been an effective strategy for programmers attempting to ship code in a timely fashion. Now those same theories are being adapted for non-technical workers, as well, as a way to prioritize getting things done using the best of agile project management.

Article in Developers

Hipchat Data Center presents: 5 surprising ways enterprise teams are winning with ChatOps

There’s this rumor going around that ChatOps was the invention of start-ups. I don’t know about you, but I can think of several enterprise IT/Ops teams who started using chat to coordinate and troubleshoot over a decade ago. (Ok, back then we called it “instant messenger”. But still.) So I hope I don’t spoil the […]

Article in Teamwork

Is a deep work deficiency stifling your productivity? An interview with Cal Newport

Here’s a challenge that’s harder than you might admit: Sit down with a project and focus on it, uninterrupted, for the next 90 minutes. No email, no chat, and no jumping between tasks.

Article in Developers

We read 100 data breach notifications to make this guide (which we hope you’ll never need)

Nothing fills out the “worst-case scenario” column quite like a data breach. For the countless teams out there who work hard to protect their customers’ data, the idea of compromising that trust is a nightmare. Data breaches are on a lot of minds lately with the 2017 Equifax data breach, which exposed personal data from […]

How Samsung does lean ITIL® with Jira Service Desk

This is a guest blog written on behalf of Jack Harding, IT Consultant at Praecipio Consulting and Larry Brock, IT Chief of Staff at Samsung Austin R&D Center and Austin AUG Leader. Based on their presentation “The Power of Process: How Samsung Implemented ITIL” at Summit San Jose 2017. The IT team at Samsung’s Austin […]

How to bring remote teams together without a big offsite budget

The Trello team is distributed across the world, some co-located and some remote. So how do we bring everyone together to bond over a shared social experience when 65% of our team is not in the same office? The answer might surprise you.

Article in Developers

Predictive Quality Analytics: delivering better quality, faster

This is a guest blog post by Atlassian Marketplace vendor, QMetry. Tracking and fixing bugs through automation and manual testing processes is becoming increasingly efficient. However efficient it may be to getting code shipped, the downside is, there’s no predictability to it. The next big thing that will alter the landscape of software testing is […]

Article in Developers

The secrets of JQL everyone wished they knew

An Atlassian expert shares his favorite JQL tips and shortcuts.

Article in Innovation

The planning fallacy: why we always end up overloaded at work

You look down at your to-do list and your heart starts racing. Why? You’ve just had that brutal realization that there is absolutely no way you’re going to be able to get everything done.

Why smart sales and marketing teams celebrate uptime

Past performance is not indicative of future results. You’ve probably heard this phrase. It’s a slice of legal disclaimer jargon that wiggled it’s way into our culture. Anyone who’s heard a bank commercial knows it. It’s gone from tiny lawyer print to bona fide figure of speech. It’s good advice, though. And it’s advice people […]

Add structure to your pipeline with multiple steps in Bitbucket Pipelines

Bitbucket Pipelines empowers modern teams to build, test and deploy their code directly within Bitbucket. Today, we’re excited to share a huge improvement to how Pipelines can be structured to suit your team’s workflow, with support for multiple steps – the highest voted feature request in Bitbucket Pipelines. With multiple steps in Pipelines, you can now: Structure […]

Article in Developers

Powering Enterprise DevOps with Bitbucket Server 5.4 & Bamboo 6.2

Implementing DevOps practices in large or highly regulated organizations is a balancing act. How do you make your development and operations teams as productive as possible, improve the flow of work moving throughout the system, and maintain the scale and security required? The answer is to choose tooling that can do it all. Bitbucket Server 5.4 and Bamboo 6.2 bring […]

Article in How We Build

DesignOps: Unleashing the potential of our design studio

When your company grows, the demands placed on your design organization fundamentally change – there are more moving parts, and the systems and processes that used to work when the entire design team could sit in the same conference room start to break down. It’s an ongoing challenge, so we thought we’d share how we’re […]

How to develop a highly effective weekly review ritual in Trello

Those productivity enthusiasts want it all, don’t they? Morning rituals, evening rituals, and now a weekly review ritual, too?

Article in Developers

How the new Dropbox app for Jira Software Cloud helps distributed teams stay in sync

Work is becoming more and more distributed across multiple teams, multiple time zones, and in multiple geographic locations. Today’s software teams are more collaborative and include more stakeholders from more disciplines than ever before. Many of those stakeholders don’t code, yet they rely heavily on Dropbox to collaborate with others in the organization. As a […]