Development
How to use your impostor syndrome as an asset
Take one look at my title, and you’d think I know what I’m doing when I turn up to work every day. Over a decade ago I started a company straight out of university with a mate, Scott. We had no prior business experience and no grand plan. Today we have thousands of awesome employees, and millions […]
5 secrets design-led companies know about boosting customer value
Design-led companies are outperforming their peers according to a new report. Here’s how.
Debate: can extroverts succeed at working remotely?
Ashley is a marketer at Atlassian, and she normally works in one of our offices. Sarah is a writer at Atlassian, and she’s been working 100% remote for more than a year. Ashley is about to participate in an experiment in which her team will work remotely for a month. She’s convinced she’ll be miserable, or […]
Surprisingly effective ways to hack open office spaces
Open-plan offices are as polarizing as politics. Firmly believing they don’t have to suck, we turned the conventional approach upside down. Here’s the result.
How your office building is tricking you into going green
The most sustainable workspaces are those that enter into dialogue with occupants and influence their behavior. Here’s what tomorrow holds.
Have tech perks gone too far?
Nobody stays with a company because of beer, or ping-pong. What people really care about, what makes for a stand-out workplace, includes these six traits.
Why is speaking up at work important?
We’ve all been there. You want to pitch an idea or offer a difference-making piece of constructive criticism to your team. But the second you get ready to chime in, you… stay quiet. You’re not alone. Speaking up in general, let alone at work, is tricky for most, if not all, of us. According to […]
Mark your calendars for Developer Day at Atlassian Summit
Atlassian Summit wouldn’t be anything without the insightful stories, action-packed advice, and best practices shared from the stage by experts like you. On April 8 in Las Vegas, industry leaders across software, IT, and team collaboration will come together to discuss what’s next. What will you add to the conversation? We’re expanding Summit and adding […]
4 ways tech teams can promote diversity in the workplace
Hear from the Head of Product for Confluence Cloud on the 4 tips she has used to hire more diverse teams in the tech industry.
Why knowledge sharing will transform your company culture
It may sound simple, but the way we share knowledge has massive impacts.
How to work best with the 4 different types of learners
This is a guest post written by Tom Alexander, VP of Marketing at Zephyr, makers of Capture for Jira. How do you learn best? If you are a human (which we assume you are), chances are that you fit into one of four types of communication: visual, auditory, written, or kinesthetic (the scientific term […]
Everything you need to know about creating buyer personas
Buyer personas are a powerful tool that helps teams build shared empathy for their buyers. While many put “buyer persona” into the category of cringe-worthy business jargon, without them you’d be building products and campaigns for a big faceless box of generalizations and personal biases. Personas help marketers, product developers and CMOs put a face […]
How to disrupt the “brogrammer” vibe with 1 simple change
Not all programmers are “brogrammers”. Still, the vibe is pervasive in tech, making it that much harder to build balanced teams. Here’s what you can do.
6 ways to build a culture of discovery
How do you cultivate an environment that’s ripe for innovation? Create a space for discovery. Discovery is finding what was once hidden. In today’s hyper-connected, information-overloaded world, that’s more difficult than ever. Pretty ironic, right? So much information at our fingertips, but the needle in the haystack is as ellusive as ever. Real discoveries are […]
The new Jira begins now
That’s why our teams have totally reimagined the product to focus on making it easier to use and more powerful for modern software teams.