Development
How emotionally intelligent leaders build a culture of trust (and why!)
Trust makes doing your job as a leader easier in just about every way imaginable. You don’t have to read up on all the theories around this. You can feel it in your gut. Personally, I know I’ve performed far better under a manager I trusted compared to one that didn’t have my best interests […]
How healthcare is using Hipchat Data Center for reliable communication
Many teams use Hipchat for work that has a positive impact on the world. Teams within the healthcare industry are a prime example. In any business, communication and collaboration are foundational, but these areas haven’t always been handled efficiently in healthcare organizations. Whenever we talk with our healthcare customers about what led them to adopt […]
The Atlassian Team Tour
Our mission is to help every team – from startup to enterprise, HR to design, and everything between – unleash their full potential. At Atlassian, we’re constantly looking for fun ways to meet our customers face-to-face to hear their stories and share new ways we’re helping teams work better together. We’re excited to announce the […]
How The NOVOMATIC Group manages their Atlassian users at scale using Crowd Data Center
Are you a growing and decentralized organization with teams spread across the world? Are you looking to standardize the tools used across various parts of your organization and more seamlessly manage your users? Then, read on. We spoke to The NOVOMATIC Group about their decision to roll out Crowd to their entire organization, which gave […]
What workplace trends will we see 2018? Here are our predictions
As Atlassian’s Work Futurist, I think a lot about what’s coming next. But, I’m not the only one at Atlassian who has grand visions for the future. In fact, our predictions started long ago, when our co-Founder Scott Farquhar was only 12 years old. As a youngster, Scott made some technology forecasts that have nearly […]
New apps for Data Center(Jira, Confluence, & more)
Atlassian’s Data Center products like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and others, are purpose-built to deliver high availability, uncompromised performance at scale, and deployment flexibility—and this should apply to the almost 1,400 apps for Data Center products as well. When you’re working at enterprise scale, marketplace apps (formerly known as add-ons) can have a major impact on your […]
Why net neutrality is so important
At Atlassian, we believe open access to knowledge and information is a fundamental right. We believe it’s crucial to unleashing the potential of every team and to advancing innovation. As a company focused on teamwork with values built on openness, net neutrality is an essential condition for everything we stand for. This issue is at the […]
44 incredible 404 error pages
Nobody wants their web visitors getting lost. But it happens. When it does, a great 404 error page can turn a bad experience into a delightful one. We’re always praising the benefits of good strategies for downtime. Another aspect of that is making sure visitors are taken care of if they land on an old […]
5 habits to drop immediately for a successful 2018
It’s no secret that our world moves quickly. Start-ups launch at a rate of about 1240 per day in the U.S. alone. New technologies pop up faster than toadstools after rain and change the way we think about pretty much everything. Geographies previously thought of as “remote” are now connected and ready to buy. In such a volatile business […]
Product roadmap vs product backlog: both essential, better together
This article was authored by Jim Semick, co-founder of ProductPlan and frequent speaker on product development. As an agile product team, you likely have both a strategic roadmap and a backlog in Jira Software. How can you use both in the most effective way possible? Naturally, the strategy from your roadmap is what drives prioritization […]
5 reasons your financial services company needs Hipchat Data Center
The pressure of digital transformation is greatly impacting the financial services industry. Whether you’re a mature enterprise or an emerging FinTech firm, you must centralize real-time data to make decisions, develop agile and collaborative teams, and remain compliant with constantly changing regulations. And, of course, these communications must remain secure. With increased scrutiny and regulations, […]
Atlassian and GDPR – Our commitment to data privacy
Atlassian is committed to compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect May 25, 2018. The regulation contains the most significant changes to European data privacy legislation in the last 20 years. It is designed to give EU citizens more control over their data and seeks to unify a number […]
How do emotions affect productivity? [New research]
This article was written with Prashant Kukde of DeepAffects. There’s a long-held expectation that people should keep their emotions out of the workplace. I’m sure you’ve heard it at some point: keep a firm boundary between your personal and professional life. The problem is, this is not actually possible or even helpful to productivity. Human […]
5 ways working remotely changed the way I think about teamwork
People talk a lot about remote work these days, but with most things, you never truly know until you’ve experienced it. I’ve learned quite a bit about remote teamwork along the way and I thought I’d share some lessons I learned as developer and architect.
When companies ban remote work in the name of collaboration, what are they really saying?
The debate over remote work rages on. At the heart of the issue is collaboration and, by extension, creativity, and innovation. How well can teammates really work together when they’re not in the same building? Don’t we need that intense level of interaction to spark new ideas? Surely, teams are more effective when they’re sitting side by […]