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Dev? European? Recruitment bus hits major cities, in true Atlassian style
Wow, what an incredible response. I’m writing this note after watching the applications from software developers soar past 350,… only one week after launching the 15-in-15 roadshow, our somewhat crazy idea to send a “Recruitment Bus” around Europe to find the best. Only a couple of months ago, I sat down with our awesome recruitment manager, Deepa […]
(Guest blog) Austin: Heart of the Atlassian Community
This guest blog is from Atlassian Expert and user group sponsor Brian Nunnery of Praecipio Consulting. Brian is an extremely active and important member of our community, which Atlassian considers family. Brian and his team sponsor all three Texas AUGs and are a vital part of their success. It has already been a […]
Test Together: Atlassian Bonfire 2 Available Today
Today we’re excited to announce Atlassian Bonfire 2, connecting people and teams involved in software development and testing. Bring developers and QA closer together, and get everyone exploring your web application to create high quality issues in Jira. Share & Join Sessions Test Sessions are the central forum in Jira to track activity while manually […]
Start Conversations Inside Confluence Pages with Talk from StiltSoft
This is a guest post by Maxim Kuzmich, the co-founder of StiltSoft, a small team of “hackers” and fans of products by Atlassian. StiltSoft develops the Talk and InPlace Editor add-ons for Confluence. Raise team collaboration to a higher level Good documents are never written alone. Think about how you normally create an engaging document […]
QA Innovation Blog Round-Up
We’ve learned a lot from the submissions to our 13-part blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. Today we’re excited to announce Bonfire 2, with new features to connect teams and testers and foster collaboration, so now is a great time to take a look back at everything we’ve heard so far. You can […]
Meet Hipchat, the newest member of the Atlassian family
Please give a warm welcome to Hipchat, the newest member of the Atlassian family! I’m thrilled to announce that Atlassian has acquired Hipchat — a transformative hosted group chat service that helps teams, or entire companies, collaborate in real-time. Hipchat’s amazing team, including all three co-founders — Pete, Garret and Chris — will be moving into our […]
Technical Documentation in Confluence – Managing Updates for Everyone
This is the second post in a month-long series centered around Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, published by XML Press.The book is choc-a-bloc full of tips from a technical communicator who has spent the last four years on Confluence. Learn how to harness the […]
Jira 5 Deep Dive: Connecting People
Atlassian recently released Jira 5 to help foster connections between developers and the rest of the organization. Typically, developers work hard to make great software, Quality Assurance (QA) helps in the quest to find and kill bugs, and Support works with customers who find the ones that slip through the cracks. In our first deep dive, […]
How to get a speaking slot at Atlassian Summit
The countdown to Atlassian Summit has started again. Once again this year, we’re encouraging everyone to submit a speaking abstract for Summit. It’s a great opportunity to improve your speaking skills, present your ideas to a large audience, and get a chance to talk with hundreds of like-minded people at the event. Applying to be […]
(Guest blog) Revealing Oracles
This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. This post is written by Anne-Marie Charrett, a testing coach and trainer with a passion for helping testers discover their testing strengths and become […]
Hello Adolescence – An Atlassian Happy Birthday
I don’t really know what Atlassian looks like from the outside, but from the inside, it feels like a rocket – whooshing forward day-by-day to the great unknown. I’ve been here for nearly four years now, and it still feels exactly the same. Each day a huge burst of incredible energy and excitement and challenge […]
GreenHopper Rapid Board – A look under the hood for plugin developers
The GreenHopper Rapid Board was built to fulfill our most-voted customer requests, including the notorious support for multiple Jira projects. This and other features, like swimlanes and ranking performance improvements, led to a change in the underlying technology stack as well. Old to new Since we had access to some new technologies, the previous combination […]
Fisheye + Crucible + Jira Integration = Development Bliss
Every serious dev team works hard to eliminate issues from their source — the established even peer review code to assure good code quality. Adding processes can slow things down, but Atlassian’s integrations aim to save your developers’ time. Fisheye allows teams to view and search source revisions, while Crucible lets teams collaboratively review code […]
A Day in the Life of a Technical Writer
This is the first post in a series centered around Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, published by XML Press. The book is choc-a-bloc full of tips from a technical communicator who has spent the last four years on Confluence. Learn how to harness the wiki’s […]
(Press Release) Atlassian Motors Through Europe to Recruit 15 Software Developers in 15 Days
Enterprise Software Company Sets Its Course for London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Madrid to Lure Developers to Sydney London, UK, February 29, 2012 — With sights set on hiring fifteen developers in fifteen days, fast-growing enterprise software company Atlassian is heading to London on April 12th to launch a European “Recruitment Roadshow” bus tour. A select team from […]