distributed teams
Group video chat and screen sharing now supports 20 teammates
Our team hasn’t stopped crankin’ on our new group video chat and screen sharing experience. The latest updates for Mac, Windows, Linux, and web apps make your global team feel more local than ever before. The best part? It’s available for Hipchat Server customers and rolling out to Hipchat Plus customers over the next week. […]
5 tips for migrating your enterprise to Bitbucket
With its flexibility and accessibility, many software development teams are now standardizing on Git and moving away from older version control systems like SVN and CVS. Adding Bitbucket, which seamlessly integrates with the rest of the Atlassian stack, gives you a true DVCS management powerhouse. But, in a large organization with hundreds of teams and […]
The challenges of scaling software development teams globally – Part 2
How we’re solving them with Jira This article is part of a blog series! Part 1 – The challenges of scaling software development teams globally Part 2 – The challenges of scaling software development teams globally – How we’re solving them with Jira This is the second blog in a series of two. In the […]
Group video chat and screen sharing: coming to a Hipchat near you
Remember the last time a discussion really got going in Hipchat? Someone probably wrote, “I bet we could hash this out in 5 minutes if we talked face-to-face.” So you either scheduled a meeting or you flipped over to Skype, Google Hangouts, or your company’s conference-bridge-of-choice. Invariably, the conversation lost momentum. The new Hipchat video platform […]
4200 miles, 5GBs, 1 min: cloning with mirrors and Git LFS
Back in January we introduced smart mirroring for Bitbucket Data Center to help distributed teams by reducing clone times (as well as your list of excuses for taking a coffee break – sorry about that). At the same time, we added Git Large File Storage (LFS) for teams who need to work with images, videos, and […]
Smart mirroring: the cure for poor Git performance
Are you on one of those teams that finds all kinds of ways to stretch the limits of its development tools? If you’re at a big company, working on big projects stored in big repositories – possibly repos that are shared with teammates across multiple continents – the answer is probably “yes”. Using Git at massive scale can be so inefficient that it poisons your team’s productivity. So I want to bring you up to speed on the antidote we’ve developed. It’s called smart mirroring, and it’s now available in Bitbucket Data Center.
Distributed teams can now build faster with Bitbucket
We’re committed to helping teams deliver software at speed. Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve shipped these features: Smart Mirroring to improve clone performance for distributed teams, available in Bitbucket Data Center; Git LFS support to allow collaboration on all file types of any size, available in Bitbucket Server and Data Center; and Projects for organizing multiple repositories, available in Bitbucket Cloud, Server and Data Center.
The challenges of scaling software development teams globally: pt. 1
Atlassian is a unique software company: we use our own products just as much as our 40,000+ customers do. And like so many of our customers, we experience the same growing pains that many software companies face, especially when it comes to scaling. Why? Because Atlassian went from one small team in Sydney, to over 1,300 people […]
Inside Atlassian: 10 tips for distributed development teams
I often get asked about how we use our own tools for software development here at Atlassian. Since it is fast becoming the norm to work as a distributed team at Atlassian, I thought I’d take a moment to share some of our experiences in working more efficiently across time zones and geographies. I’m highlighting […]