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Get everyone on the same page with Jira Portfolio
Happy New Year! It’s time to dust off those running shoes and tackle your new year’s resolutions! Often, teams take the New Year as a time to assess, re-prioritize, and plan. Even when using an agile approach, there is still a need to project and forecast over a longer time period. The challenge is to combine both a long-term vision and frequent, continuous delivery along the way. Agile portfolio management helps to get everyone in the organization on the same page.
Fun Fridays: track New Year’s resolutions in Jira
Share your Minecraft world with a Google Map on AWS
Minecraft is one of my favorite video games of the last few years and if sales numbers are anything to go by, over 17 million other people agree with me! One of the great things about Minecraft is the permanence of your achievements; if you build something awesome out of Minecraft blocks, it becomes an indelible […]
Fun Fridays: a virtual Atlassian user group
Fun Fridays: Atlassian’s top 3 accomplishments of 2014
Fun Fridays: shoot from the Hipchat #1
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Feature Branches, Builds and Multiple Environments
In our recent Dev Den Office Hours we were asked some very interesting questions. One that caught my attention and on which I elaborated a bit on was the following: “One question I’ve had a hard time finding info on is in setting up feature branching with multiple environments (dev, test, prod for example) […] I’d love […]
Using Stash and JIRA for development bliss
A couple of weeks ago I ran a webinar on how to enhance your Git development experience with JIRA and Stash. The half-hour allocated for Q&A wasn’t quite long enough, so I’m following up on some of the unanswered questions in blog form. If you didn’t catch the webinar, it’s now live on YouTube: Check it out if […]
Fun Fridays: Mark raps about 3 ways he uses Hipchat
Pull Request Merge Strategies: The Great Debate
When a piece of work is complete, tested and ready to be merged back into your main line of development, your team has some policy choices to make. What are your merge strategy options? In this article I’ll explain the possibilities and then provide some notes on how we do it at Atlassian. Hopefully at […]
Fun Fridays: introducing a new era in video
Watch the webinar: practical advice for agile product management
We recently hosted a webinar with two Atlassian product managers called “Practical Advice for Agile Product Management.” Confluence product managers Sherif Mansour and John Masson shared their expertise on the elements that go into building great products, starting with conducting research and customer interviews and concluding with how you can tell a story about your release. We recorded the webinar for any of you that missed it or want to watch it again and share it with your teams.
Pledge 1%: a new model for corporate philanthropy
Back when Atlassian was a very small company, we made a pledge to divert 1% of equity, 1% of product, 1% of profit, and 1% of employee time to charitable causes–a corporate philanthropy model pioneered by Salesforce. We made that pledge publicly so our customers and staff would hold us accountable. And it worked. Twelve years later, we have helped over 250,000 children in the developing world get an education they wouldn’t otherwise have had access to through a partnership with the Room to Read foundation.
Inside Atlassian: seven steps for better retrospectives
Happy December, the time for retrospectives! The end of the year is a time for reflection. For our team, each member considers questions like: What went well? What accomplishments did I make? What do I want to improve on? What did I miss that I want to do next year? That’s right, December is our yearly retrospective! (That’s the cool agile term.) Retrospectives are the meetings held after a sprint, iteration, or release.