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Inside Atlassian: how to make team decisions without killing your momentum
It’s hard enough making decisions by ourselves. Sandwich or salad? Coffee or tea? T-shirt or button-down? Now imagine if your whole team was in your closet, helping to choose your outfit. The teams we work with represent a wide variety of expertise and experience, and that can cause conflict when a decision needs to be […]
Moving down the corporate ladder
On the go? You can listen to this blog using the player below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311607484″ 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 don’t think I’ve been doing a very good job lately.” Not the way I usually kick off 1-on-1 meetings with my boss. But that day, it’s what needed to be said. I’d been managing […]
Inside Atlassian: stopping team dysfunction before it starts
This is not the story of a team that was obviously broken. On the surface, we looked like your typical, high-powered marketing team. Busy, ambitious, and fueled by constant pressure from crazy deadlines. We played nicely together, collaborating early and often. We respected each other. We liked each other. Collaboration, respect, a bit of office-appropriate […]
All great things start as a page
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but over 100 million pages have been created in Confluence. That’s 100 million pages filled with big ideas that have brought different teams together to work on a common goal, a few million that fueled debate or sparked joy, and thousands that have led to some team’s “next big […]
User testing in the software development process… when you don’t have a billion users
In DevOps circles, there’s a myth about the software development process: real software teams automate everything. Look at Facebook. Look at Google. Look at Etsy. Companies killing it at DevOps. Hundreds of deployments a day. Push-button, amazing, magical automation. And like many myths, there’s some truth to this one. Continuous integration, automated testing, and cloud-deployment […]
Establishing a single source of truth across the product organization
Josh Elman, Partner at Greylock Ventures, once said that the most important thing a product manager does is document decisions. Document decisions – really? With all the things a PM has to do, from setting the product roadmap, to aligning with the strategy of the business and the needs of the customers, it can be […]
How we built Bitbucket Data Center to scale
This post is the first part of a series on how we built Bitbucket Data Center to scale. Check out the entire series here Today is Bitbucket Data Center’s second birthday! It really was two years ago that Stash Data Center 3.5 (as it was then called) became the first collaborative Git solution on the market built for […]
5 ways to work better with Jira mobile
If you’re a Jira Software or Jira Core user with a site hosted in the Cloud, you probably already know about the Jira Cloud apps we’ve released for iPhone and Android. The last few months have seen rapid development, including the addition of boards and edit issue support. Plus, our chock-full backlog includes many of […]
New mobile collaboration tools: it’s Confluence Cloud for Android, baby!
Confluence Cloud for Android is here! Earlier this year we released Confluence Cloud for iPhone and Jira apps. In the meantime, we’ve been working to deliver an Android version of Confluence to add to Atlassian’s suite of mobile collaboration tools. Following a robust beta program with hundreds of users, we’re happy to share that Confluence Cloud […]
4 add-ons to help you test smarter and more efficiently
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Testing our software and applications is one of the most important things we can do as technology makers. In our hyper-connected and “always on” world, if you don’t find the bugs in your product, your customer will – and they’ll probably tweet about it. With the wealth of choices out there […]
Mark a Trello card as done (and drop the mic on that task)
Ever felt that rush of satisfaction from checking an item off your to-do list? That little win can brighten your entire day, giving you the motivation and focus to tackle what’s next. Marking a card as done is now possible. It allows you to update the status of a card with a single click, wherever […]
3 reasons DevOps and the cloud need each other
In a world where frequent releases and iterative feedback rule the software development lifecycle, there’s no better companion for DevOps than the cloud. DevOps and the cloud have emerged as a result of shifts in social behavior along with accompanying adjustments to enterprise response. DevOps is a journey through improved, quick, and continuous software delivery. […]
AWS Quick Starts now available for Jira Service Desk Data Center
At Atlassian Summit 2016, we announced that Data Center customers can now deploy their Jira Software and Bitbucket Data Center instances to Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) in just a few minutes with AWS’s Quick Starts. We’re now excited to announce that Jira Service Desk has joined the family! With AWS’s Quick Starts – powered by […]
The surprising benefits of using emoticons in the workplace
At Atlassian we kind of emoticons. We use them constantly in our team chats and conversations, and they’re a big part of our company culture. We love them so much, we thought we’d conduct a study of how they are used in the workplace to see if anyone else feels the way we do. Our […]
How AI is transforming the work of software teams
This is a guest post written by Scott Middleton, founder and CEO of stratejos as well as part-time sausage maker. stratejos is a smart assistant for software teams using Jira and Hipchat. Will you still be doing your job in 5-10 years or will a robot do it for you? This is a question knowledge workers […]