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5 things I learned about product (and people) management this year
This last year has been a blur. At the start of 2016 I was working in Product Management at Twitter, and then I moved to the other side of the world to work at Atlassian in Sydney, Australia. Despite the massive geographic and timezone change, I’ve learned a lot from both places about being a […]
What I want other parents to know about women in tech
On the go? You can listen to this blog, read by the author, using the player below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311716129″ params=”color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] I’m a 16-year veteran of the tech world, a “recovering coder,” and the mother of a 6-year-old girl. And if I was looking at tech from the outside, I would be […]
SourceTree for Windows 2.0 is now in beta
We’ve added a ton of new features and improvements in this release: Manage your bookmarks easily with a new and colorful tab design Huge performance improvements Pixel-perfect per-monitor DPI support Tabs and Header We implemented a new tab-centric design to increase vertical space and to give readability to the the repository you’re currently working in. The new header design […]
Trello keyboard shortcuts: an infographic cheat sheet
There are many ways to work your Trello board, but there’s something special about keyboard shortcuts. It’s so satisfying to hit one key, and see all your assigned cards instantly. (It’s “Q” for that useful filter, by the way.) Indeed, if you prefer typing to swiping, you can navigate, create, edit, and assign just about anything in Trello from your keyboard.
Loom for Gmail
Create & send quick videos via Gmail ✉️ Email is so deeply integrated into our lives that we hardly notice it. It hasn’t changed in recent decades yet our work is heavily dependent on this channel for communication. A lot of you have mentioned the ease of recording quick videos and the fact that it’s […]
3 new features in Portfolio for Jira 2.2 to improve your roadmap
With 2017 underway, your software teams are busy planning their roadmaps for the upcoming year. This is a time when team leads, like project managers, product managers, and development managers, meet to estimate or re-evaluate estimates, so that resources are allocated, and a roadmap is committed to. To make things easier we are introducing Portfolio […]
New reporting in Fisheye and Crucible 4.3, and more
Whether you use Fisheye & Crucible with Subversion, Perforce, Git, or Mercurial, one thing that all teams have in common is the need to report on repository activity. How many lines of code were committed last week? Who committed code over the last sprint? In order to answer these questions we are happy to announce […]
4 simple collaboration strategies for distributed teams
This is a guest post by Simon Herd, Co-founder and CEO of ThinkTilt, creators of ProForma. ProForma provides an extensive library of easy-to-use, customizable forms to bring the functionality and convenience of Jira Service Desk to all business teams. We are everywhere. Well, maybe not everywhere, but we do have a team that is spread […]
Add tags to commits in Bitbucket
Git tags have become essential to a Git workflow to mark specific points in your Git history (like referencing a specific version of a project by tagging a commit for your release). They reduce complexity, clean up your branch workflow, and are a way to mark exact versions of commits. If you change versions a […]
6 essential skills every quality assistance engineer should develop
What type of QA engineer are you? Quality Assurance, or Quality Assistance? At Atlassian we take a “quality assistance” approach to QA in order to optimise our release process for both quality and speed. Quality assistance, first coined by Cem Kaner, is based on the idea that a QA engineer is a facilitator for high […]
How to deploy Java apps with Docker (a quick tutorial)
For those new to Docker, let me say “Welcome to the party!” It’s an easy way to deploy, run, and manage applications using vm-like containers that are independent of elements like hardware and language, which makes these containers highly portable. And it’s all the rage. So how do you deploy Java apps using Docker? You’re […]
If your company’s idea of teamwork is BS, here’s how to fix it
Teamwork and tools that support it get a lot of hype. But teamwork isn’t a technical problem – it’s a people problem. You can’t solve it with tools.
Building a winning team with agile performance management
This is a guest post written by Anand Inamdar, Product Owner at Amoeboids Technologies. The team at Amoeboids has developed & supports Jira add-ons UpRaise for Employee Success and Automated Release Notes. In today’s world of rapid innovation and powerful technology advances, it’s easier than ever to start up a company. But, building a winning team […]
Trello is being acquired by atlassian
Today we’re excited to announce a new chapter in Trello’s story, and a new chapter for the story of the future of work.
Jira Software Server 7.3: power to the admins
Recent releases of Jira Software focused on making it easier for administrators to manage Jira Software at scale while making teams more efficient with features like improved sprint permissions, configuration of versions and components, and greater flexibility to deploy and manage Jira Software in AWS. But we were just getting started. In Jira Software 7.3, […]