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Codegeist 2016: help teams work better
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89MoWzAlLZo&w=560&h=315] We’re happy to announce Codegeist, Atlassian’s 9th add-on online hackathon. Add-ons allow you to extend Jira and other Atlassian products with even more functionality. You can find over 2,000 add-ons in the Atlassian Marketplace. Have an idea about how to make Jira, Confluence, Hipchat, or Bitbucket even better? Build an add-on or find […]
Ideas to optimize your planning poker sessions
This is a guest post by Vitalii Zurian, a software engineer and the creator of a series of agile add-ons for Jira Cloud, including the #1 paid add-on, Planning Poker. Vitalli blogs at agilevalues.com. As your team matures and becomes more experienced, you’d think your estimates and planning poker sessions would improve as well. Seems […]
Finding the best add-ons for Jira Service Desk (and 3 favorites)
One outstanding feature of Jira Service Desk is its extensibility, through add-ons available in the Atlassian Marketplace. Once you know what you want out of an add-on, and do the right research, you can extend the power of your service desk almost indefinitely.
Bridging the gap between content and design with wireframes
We all know that the success of any project hangs on having the right teams and processes in place. But sometimes, this can feel like an unreachable goal when it comes to the day-to-day of project management. However, establishing common techniques for communicating and transitioning assets can smooth out this process and create a better experience for everyone involved. One of these techniques centers around creating wireframes, or rough visualizations of a concept or user interface.
Try using mind maps to plan your next project
Mind maps are a great way for visual learners and thinkers to brainstorm ideas, plan out projects, and tap into the creativity of the team. Plus, they’re collaborative. You can work through ideas and problems together, going from initial ideas to formalized plan as a team. If you’ve felt frustrated at the start of a project, you gotta check out these 3 ways you can use mind maps in Confluence to go from concept to solid project plan.
3 new customization ideas using Jira Service Desk’s API
We’re excited to unveil Connect for Jira Service Desk, our shiny new API that connects your Jira Service Desk with other software solutions. Whether you’re a Jira Service Desk admin or developer, there is so much you can build. Craft integrations that create tickets from a phone call or a text, or create add-ons that pull in essential customer information to your Jira Service Desk dashboard – and that’s just the beginning.
AtlasCamp 2016: fueling cloud collaboration for all teams
Atlassian is helping teams across all industries do amazing things. The common thread between all teams is the need to work smarter and faster. And we see more and more teams choosing to collaborate in the cloud. During today’s keynote at AtlasCamp 2016 I shared new product advancements for team productivity in the cloud. At a time when the speed of software development continues to increase, our Atlassian teams are focused on delivering new tools to help you work smarter and be more connected with your team.
Know thy customer: agile’s essential guide to user story maps
A story map is a visual representation of the journey a customer takes with a product, including activities and tasks they complete. Agile teams create the story map in a collaborative session to ensure they have a shared understanding of the customer and their desired outcomes. Today I’ll show you the basics of user story mapping and why it’s a worthwhile endeavour for your agile team.
Three DevOps principles to streamline your operations team
In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the three underlying principles of DevOps created by entrepreneur and IT operations extraordinaire, Gene Kim. These principles describe the values and philosophies that frame the processes and practices from which all DevOps patterns are derived. We’ll also give you some helpful tips and show you a few add-ons from the Atlassian Marketplace to get the most out of these DevOps principles.
35 ways to get more work done from Hipchat
Lots of people love Hipchat for its collaborative team rooms, easy-to-use interface, and let’s not forget those fun emoticons! But did you know there are a myriad of ways to turn Hipchat into your one-stop productivity shop? Thanks to the integrations that have been built on the Hipchat Connect API, you and your teams can now get more stuff done from right within the comfort of your Hipchat application. From engineering to operations, marketing and support, here are 35 new integrations that will turn Hipchat into your team command center.
How alert correlation helps Dev and Ops work better together
This is a guest post written by Tiffany Cantle, Senior Marketing Manager at BigPanda. We all need to move fast in order to stay competitive. But the faster things move, the faster things break. While many companies have made great strides towards automating application release and infrastructure management, automation for service assurance has been sorely […]
5 Jira, Confluence, and Hipchat integrations to power your marketing team
As marketing becomes a more technical discipline, it’s imperative to find tools that streamline processes, help teams communicate, and enhance work transparency. With these 5 integrations and add-ons for Jira, Confluence, and Hipchat (not to mention hundreds more in the Atlassian Marketplace), marketers can get tremendous ROI from their marketing technology stack.
5 tips for building the right diagram for your business challenge
A quick look at the Atlassian marketplace reveals that diagramming tools are some of the most popular add-ons available. There’s a reason for that: complicated tasks and concepts are often better expressed visually. Who wants read walls of text or a tab-filled spreadsheet? In the human brain, visuals are processed 60,000x faster than text, so organizing information in the most digestible way is a huge communication advantage.
Marketplace monthly: the latest add-ons, including Uber!
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Wouldn’t it be awesome if (insert Atlassian product) did…” there’s a good chance that someone else had the same thought and built an add-on to do exactly what you want. Welcome to the Atlassian Marketplace: home to thousands of add-ons for your favorite Atlassian products.
Get the most powerful integration experience with Hipchat Connect
Since its introduction a month ago, Hipchat Connect has produced over a dozen add-ons from our friends at services like Zendesk, Meekan, and Statuspage, with more coming from New Relic, PagerDuty, and Zephyr. And this is just the beginning.