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Inside Atlassian: how our site reliability engineers do incident management
“Ohhhhh $#!τ. We broke Confluence.” In one of our first Confluence Cloud releases in 2016, we broke our users’ ability to edit pages. As the head of Atlassian’s site reliability engineering group, this kind of thing falls right into my wheelhouse. In this post, I’ll walk you through how we responded to the situation to get Confluence working again. I’ll give an insider’s view of our incident management process, as well as how we’ve configured Atlassian tools to support this work.
Separating the signal from the noise: how Atlassian does proactive support
I’m part of a team called Service Enablement, which is a special project group within the broader support team at Atlassian. We work closely with the support, engineering, product, and design teams to ensure that we provide a feedback loop between customers and the product. Most importantly, we try to prevent major incidents from happening before they happen – because we care about you as customers, and we want you to be customers for life.
Introducing smart graph: machine learning in action
Teams like HR, facilities, legal and even marketing adopt service desk portals to handle requests from their internal customers, and soon there are service desks for practically every team. But this viral spread of service desks within a company can make finding the right service desk sometimes challenging – let alone figuring out which request type matches the problem you’re trying to solve. So we used machine learning to make Jira Service Desk’s search a whole lot smarter.
How Jira Service Desk approaches ITSM
Despite ITIL’s status as the gospel of IT, traditional ITSM (IT Service Management) tools supporting traditional ITIL leave many IT organizations frustrated. Keeping it old school works in a lot of areas, but IT isn’t one of them.
Sleighs and SLAs: how Jira Service Desk keeps Santa on schedule
Despite what you’ve seen in the movies, Santa Claus isn’t a one-man show – it’s a network. SCL is a worldwide operation of over 5,000 elves, reindeer, and a team of Santa decoys, all working together, along with CTO Mrs. Claus keeping everything running as smooth as red velvet Santa slacks. In fact, Mrs. Claus says her team loves Jira Service Desk’s built-in SLA (Service Level Agreement) management because it helps prioritize last-minute tasks. And real-time reports help her see issue resolution while providing crucial Christmas Eve preparation updates.
Bimodal IT, and 2 ½ other enterprise resolutions for 2016
In the mad dash for the end of the year it’s easy to forget that after all the lights, drinks, and budgets from 2015 come to a close, your company expects you to know what you’re doing for 2016. Here’s why you should plan to get a head start on bimodal IT, streamline some tools, and watch Star Wars.
How to become a high-performing IT support team with DevOps
High-performing IT teams are embracing the DevOps revolution. And no wonder: a recent survey from HDI showed that the consumerization of technology is raising the bar in terms of what companies expect of their IT teams and the services they deliver. But what is DevOps all about, anyway?
New to the Data Center family: Jira Service Desk
Our customers have made it loud and clear: there’s a huge demand for Jira Service Desk Data Center. Jira Service Desk Data Center is now available, and is ready to help your growing organization perform at scale. Over 15,000 IT teams rely on Jira Service Desk and it’s quickly becoming the service management tool of choice for businesses large and small. Check out how data center can help your business.
How the agile manifesto rescued The Daily Telegraph’s service desk
The Daily Telegraph’s Director of Service Delivery, was facing a seemingly impossible task: bring service delivery back in-house, and do it within three months. Learn how they applied the agile manifesto and improved customer satisfaction by 140%.
TAM day at Summit: 3 big takeaways
Highlights from the Summit 2015 event TAM day, an exclusive event for customers in the technical account management program. It’s a full day dedicated to discussions with product leadership around scaling and standardizing across different business teams, and provides a collaborative environment to meet and chat with other TAM customers from around the world.
Confluence performance: twice as fast in the cloud
We need tools that support the speed at which we work. Even a slight wait can throw you off your flow. Have you ever gotten impatient while waiting for, oh… I don’t know… a Confluence page to load? So you pop over to Facebook (just for a sec – seriously!), and after chuckling over some pics […]
5 tips to transform your IT team from zero to superhero
Some of the world’s most respected brands employ some seriously innovative solutions when it comes to their service desks. Find out what they did to turn their average service desks into IT super-centers with these five easy tips.
Jira Service Desk 3: built for IT and service teams
At Atlassian, we love interacting and listening to you, our customers. Two years ago at Summit 2013, Atlassian introduced Jira Service Desk in response to customers who were looking to use Jira as an IT ticketing tool. At Summit 2014, we released a new Jira Service Desk with an agent-based pricing model so opening a ticket was free. Today, we’re totally excited to unveil the next evolution: Jira Service Desk 3!
3 DevOps principles to apply to your IT team
DevOps is a movement that advocates a collaborative working relationship between Development and IT Operations, where historically they have been separated. Check out the three main DevOps principles (from The DevOps Cookbook) and how to apply them to your IT team.
Seven ways to create an awesome self-service culture
If there’s a shining light in the IT world that cuts those less-than-urgent tickets in half, it’s self-service. Self-service is a lifesaver, on both ends, because it helps your customers find what they’re looking for and it lets the IT team do what they do best: keep your business running smoothly.