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(Case Study) Social Commerce and our Hosted Development Tool Suite
Founded: 2010 HQ: Delaware (as any startup is) Employees: 10 Products: Hosted tool suite Our case studies are typically from well established companies. It’s not often that we hear from a fresh new startup with no website or public products. But this in fact was the case when I was contacted by Ovidiu Pitic, Founder […]
GreenHopper 5.8 now available: Rapid Board for Kanban
GreenHopper 5.8 is now available, delivering a huge win for everyone: the new Rapid Board! A major innovation for GreenHopper, the Rapid Board is a flexible new board for managing and reporting on work in progress. The Rapid Board also provides multiple project support, which alone satisfies a whopping 255 votes – the most requested […]
Bonfire 1.4 Available: Introducing Tags for Session Notes
Atlassian Bonfire 1.4 is here, helping teams organize information gathered during manual testing with new tags for session notes. Read on to discover how to use tags to speed up your testing process and related activity. Tag Session Notes Testers use session notes to capture relevant assumptions, questions, or ideas that come up during a […]
The Bamboo Task Master Challenge – Build a Task. Win a prize.
Fresh off the heels of the Bamboo 3.3 release we are kicking off the first ever Bamboo competition – The Task Master Challenge. We are giving away over $1,000 in prizes, including a ticket to Summit and $500 to spend on HackerThings.com, for the best Bamboo Task Plugin. Give it a go and create some […]
Using an AppleTV as a Wallboard Monitor
At Atlassian we use wallboards as information radiators to broadcast data from our Jira and GreenHopper systems out to the software development teams. This “always on” graphical display makes everyone in the team aware of project status by default because nobody has to go digging for information. We use wall-mounted 46-50″ HD TV displays, and […]
Confluence, git, rename, merge oh my…
Confluence moved from Subversion to git 3 weeks ago and we were finally in a good position to merge a fairly significant reorganisation of our source code into master. Maven artifact and directory names now match and it is possible to rebuild Confluence without having to rebuild the world. Our architect Charles had this in […]
The Scrum Papers and Distributed Development
This is a guest blog post written by Randy DeFauw from Perforce Software. Randy has previously written about integrating Perforce and Jira to create a robust, scalable issue tracking solution and in this post talks about distributed Scrum in the context of enabling efficient Agile processes on large/distributed teams. As my Perforce colleague Bryan Pendleton mentioned […]
Why I am in Support – Tony
This is part 5 in a series from Atlassian’s support team, for more information, check out the introduction to the series. When I interviewed for this job, I had the opportunity to speak briefly with Jeffrey Walker. Although I had a lot of technical skills and communication skills, he wanted to know why I was looking […]
Why I am in Support – Partha
This is part 4 in a series from Atlassian’s support team, for more information, check out the introduction to the series. I was having an early mid-life crisis at university. All through senior high school and university, I worked in various part-time service positions, including McDonald’s, department stores and even as a bar attendant in a theatre. […]
Time for your Checkup!
Plugin checkup, that is. We announced this at AtlasCamp a few weeks ago, but somehow forgot to blog about it… so here it is. checkup.atlassian.com is live! The Atlassian Plugin Checkup is a simple tool that give plugin developers the ability to validate a plugin against a wide array of Atlassian products/versions. The checkup will […]
Critical Jira 4.4.2 bug resolved in Jira 4.4.3
UPDATED: The critical bug discovered in Jira 4.4.2 (JRA-25914) has been resolved. Please upgrade to Jira 4.4.3 at your earliest convenience in order to access GreenHopper 5.8. We all strive for perfection, but sometimes things slip through the cracks. Unfortunately, today is one of those days. Due to an unexpected bug, we have taken down […]
Why I am in Support – Morgana
This is part 3 in a series from Atlassian’s support team, for more information, check out the introduction to the series. My working life started early… my first job was as an assistant in a health clinic when I was fourteen. It was just a job. My second job was an internship in the University Internet lab, […]
Launch48 coming to Atlassian Sydney
Atlassian is sponsoring Sydney’s first Launch48! Launch48 is a weekend for anyone interested in creating an online business. The goal is to pitch ideas, form ad-hoc teams around them, build and then launch in just 48 hours. You should definitely come along if you have any skills in: * Software * Design * Marketing * […]
Why I am in Support – Jeremy
This is part 2 is a series from Atlassian’s support team asking how we can help you better. The best support case I ever had Here’s a story of the best support case I ever had. At the time, I was the manager of a support team for a product that helped kids train the […]
Why I am in support – Sherali
This is part 1 in a series from Atlassian’s support team, for more information, check out the introduction to the series. To begin with – I must confess. I did not end up in support by choice. Three years ago I was 10 years into my happy dev career. I wanted to take part in setting […]