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My First Grovember
Last month I discovered the Australian tradition of growing a mustache during November. I thought that it’d be nice to share the little video that I made during the shave-off day. Work hard, play hard. I like this philosophy! The music is the Blower’s Daughter by Damien Rice.
Business Intelligence at Atlassian (Lightning Talk)
Information is core to our daily work at Atlassian. Our offices are filled with video screens showing software builds, sales stats, new hires and system metrics. Product Managers use data to forecast sales and justify product improvements. The Support Team continually monitors queues of incoming requests to ensure we meet service levels. Behind the scenes, […]
Usability Testing with Paper Prototyping
This is a guest blog by Richard Duinmayer and Gert-Jan Bartelds of Avisi, an Atlassian Expert based in the Netherlands. Richard and Gert-Jan are members of Testnet, the Dutch software testers’ professional association. On November 8th 2011 they took part in a Testnet workshop on usability testing. More specifically, the topic was “the use of paper prototyping […]
Atlassian Bootcamp – Our Induction Program
Why Bootcamp? A big problem that companies face with new hires is how to get them up to speed quickly and reduce new hire anxiety, making them feel both productive and welcomed immediately. At Atlassian the process used to be an ad hoc exercise left up to each individual team, with predictably inconsistent results. Since […]
Mobile User Feedback, available OnDemand
With the introduction of Jira OnDemand, it’s now easier than ever to collect feedback from your mobile app users. Since Jira Mobile Connect is included with every instance of Jira OnDemand, your mobile development team can engage directly with your users from the same tool they use to track bugs and manage all other development […]
Atlassian OnDemand, Meet Gliffy
More Atlassian customers use Gliffy to make information visual and easier to understand than any other diagramming plugin. The Gliffy plugin for Atlassian OnDemand allows you to create great-looking, collaborative, web-based diagrams right on any Jira issue or Confluence page. Gliffy’s extensive shape library gives users a wide variety of industry-standard icons/graphics to strengthen the […]
Performance Testing meets Continuous Integration – Bamboo and Blitz
This is a guest blog post by Kowsik Guruswamy, CTO for Mu Dynamics, the company that powers Blitz. Kowsik is a self proclaimed cloud junkie that can reconcile big data with packets. A Pig of a Problem We all know what happens when your app performs like a pig. You lose users, customers and revenue. […]
8 automations that improved our HR team’s productivity
I hate manual repetitive tasks that don’t add value to the work of our team. Unfortunately, in HR, there are many. In the past, we’d run around manually adding information on various HR systems, notify IT, update managers on recruitment stats, new hires, and the list goes on and on. That’s why we’ve been working on […]
Self-Updating Universal Plugin Manager
Anyone who has used the Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) in Jira will attest to its ability to simplify the process of monitoring, installing, and upgrading plugins. It alerts you when there are new versions of your plugins, and, most importantly, it downloads and installs the plugins for you – no Jira restart necessary. The process […]
(Case Study) ShipIt Day Romanian Style: Lateral Illustrates How Far a Little Innovation Can Go
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re pretty excited about our ShipIt Days around here. Every quarter, we give employees the chance to work on anything that relates to our products, and deliver a solution within 24 hours. Last week, we launched a campaign to share ShipIt Day with one lucky organization that needs a kick […]
Why We Removed the Wiki Markup Editor in Confluence 4.0
UPDATE: July 2013 Since this post was published back in November 2011 there have been a number of improvements to working with wiki markup in the new editor in addition to two plugins released on the Atlassian Marketplace that provide source and wiki markup editing capabilities in Confluence 4 and above. For a quick reference […]
Atlassian OnDemand, Meet Tempo
With Tempo you can now map and plan people and teams to projects with a mouse click and allocate their time and vacation just as easy. Use the team and project timesheets to see, at a glance, worked and planned time by project, period or task. Plan your projects as easy as it is for […]
Building an Ecosystem for Hackers
A couple of weeks ago, I presented at QCon SF. My topic was on Building an Ecosystem for Hackers. It was a talk about how we empower our users (yes, users – who mostly happen to be developers) to hack on our products for fun and profit. The sentiment of the talk focused on the fact […]
Writing a Confluence Plugin for a SaaS Product
This is a guest post by Brian Pugh of LucidChart, an online diagramming solution that makes diagramming fast and easy. In this post, Brian talks about the process of writing a Confluence plugin for LucidChart. As you probably know, Confluence has a flexible plugin model that allows third parties to add new functionality and […]
Introduction to a new JavaScript language, “Roy”, with Brian McKenna
Atlassian developer Brian McKenna has been working on a new programming language, Roy, since May 2011. In this video Brian shares his motivation for building Roy as well as where the language is heading in the future. More discussion about Roy can be found in a recent Hacker News article. Resources: More information on Roy […]