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| OCTOBER 2012 EDITION | | |
| | Designer in the code | | | Jerry Gordinier is a user experience designer here at Atlassian working with the Atlassian Marketplace team. Jerry did the unthinkable for a designer, he tried entering the code base, and in doing so, he learned a little about how our customers – engineers – think. Read more » | |  | | |
| | 5 steps to build a killer dashboard | | | Imagine walking into a status meeting knowing things are on track before anyone says a word. Or coming back from vacation and seeing detailed project updates from a quick glance, before even checking email. This could be you! Let's create a killer dashboard. Read more » | |  | | |
| | Get fancy with card colors in GreenHopper | | | A neat feature in GreenHopper is the ability to color cards based upon JQL. We visited two great customers, Twitter and Medallia, and each of them came up with a novel way to use card colors in their environment, simple updates that helped them focus their energy. Read more » | | |
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| | Is your team suffering from CD? | | | Since the beginning of time, teams have struggled to work together, and yet even today it's still incredibly difficult to drive a group of people towards a common goal. Is your team under performing? Is working together like pulling teeth? Is your inbox flooded with emails, and your calendar full of meetings? If so, your team may be suffering from Collaborative Dysfunction. Read more » | |  | | |
| | Calling all girl geeks! | |  | | | It's coming... On November 14th, Atlassian is partnering with the Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner organization to host its first ever Bay Area Girl Geek event at our newly designed SOMA offices! | | | This exciting event will feature a special panel: Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily; Audra Eng, Atlassian's VP of product management; Catherine Norman, Atlassian's director of corporate communciations; Patricia Nakache of Trinity Ventures; and Rebecca Buckman, journalist. Read more » | | | | |
| | 8 million resumes created with Atlassian OnDemand | | | Atlassian gets extremely excited when we receive unsolicited praise. So when a customer submitted a really nice note on our public feedback form, we had to jump at the chance to followup. We talked to Joe Flanagan, Campaign Director at Resume Companion, to learn more about their success and how Atlassian helped achieve it. Read more » | |  | | | |
| | University tips of the month | | | Brought to you by the big-brained (or maybe highly evolved?) people at Atlassian University, the best place to learn about the hundreds of features and shortcuts in our products. | | | | | | |
| | Win this shirt | | | Every month, we pose a question or task to our newsletter readers. The brave ones who answer are placed in a drawing to win some free Atlassian gear. | | | This Month's Challenge | | | Ladies, we want to hear from you! (Sorry guys, this one isn't for you.) Take our quick survey and share your experience as a woman in tech. Mention you came from the Atlassian Newsletter in the final question and you'll be entered to win a blue Angry Nerds t-shirt (pictured right). | | |  | | |
| | Our reading list | | | Here are a few sites and blogs we've been tagging around the office: | | | | | |
| | Thanks for reading | | | Thanks for reading this month's edition of the Atlassian Newsletter. If you have ideas or feedback, feel free to contact us. | | | Until next month! | | | Cheers, | | | The Atlassians | | |
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