Avoid these 5 mistakes for an amazing kick-off meeting
We’ve all been there: the kick-off meeting that was nothing more than 60 minutes of your life that you’ll never...
Sarah Goff-Dupont
13 books that disrupt stereotypes and build emotional intelligence
There are so many experiences that can be understood through literature. When we access those stories, we push back on ignorance and build the emotional intelligence that is so important for personal and professional...
14 random ways to be kind at work (and why it matters)
Be kinder than is necessary. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle. These 12 simple words, clipped from the local...
17 ways to get kids coding
“Do I give (kid’s name) something educational, or something fun?” As parents, relatives, and friends of people with children, we face...
Boiling the ocean with Portfolio for Jira: adventures in capacity planning
[Captain’s log August 1, 2117 – somewhere off the Gold Coast. What follows is an account of how I created...
DevOps vs. compliance: a guide to having it all
The miasma of compliance documentation alone is enough to drain a person's soul. Thank goodness for DevOps.
A message to our RSS subscribers
Greetings, readers! As part of overhauling the Atlassian Blog, we’ve moved our RSS feeds away from Feedburner – an open...
How to manage projects like an actual project manager
So. You have to manage a project, and you’re not a project manager by trade. I’ve been there. It’s pretty...
What I want other parents to know about women in tech
On the go? You can listen to this blog, read by the author, using the player below. I’m a 16-year...
Inside Atlassian: moving down the corporate ladder, thanks to root cause analysis
On the go? You can listen to this blog using the player below. “I don’t think I’ve been doing a...
Atlassian blog update
Dear Readers, Blog team here, with a quick update on how we are managing the Atlassian blog. Starting Friday, September...
Inside Atlassian: tracking blog categories and performance with Jira custom fields
I can hold my own with math and numbers, but I don’t love them. I have to admit though, I’m starting...
Super-powered continuous delivery with Git
Developing as a team can be messy. You’re trying to understand which pieces of code everyone is working on, trying to make sure changes don’t conflict, trying to find defects before your customers do,...
Inside Atlassian: example Jira workflows for tracking blog projects
Chances are, your marketing team manages blog projects on spreadsheets. You probably track who is working on it, what state it's in, when it's going to be published, what it's about, how it fits...
Git hooks for continuous integration
Git hooks are awesome in the context of continuous integration, so I want to share three CI-related use cases and point you to some ready-made hooks you can add to your workflow. If you're...