Development
4 ways prototyping untangles your product requirements
As a writer with over 10 years of experience in product management, Germaine loves to share resources that help agile PMs. Check out her recent ebook Prototyping for Product Managers. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype must be worth a hundred thousand pages of a requirements document. While a requirements […]
What teaching kids to code taught me
“Good morning, Mr. Kelley!” Over the past year, I’ve enjoyed hearing this cheerful greeting from my students at the start of every class. No, I’m not a teacher; I’m a Senior Java Developer at Atlassian. But this year, I’ve been able to teach kids computer science education in a local Sydney school. Like many places, […]
The me in team: personal productivity tips to boost your team game
You’ve heard a coach say: There ain’t no “I” in team! And that’s true enough. But, there is a “me.” (You take the m from the end and the e from the second position… oh, never mind.) At Atlassian, we believe good teams are made up of individuals with distinct strengths that collectively drive teamwork […]
How to build a kick-ass agile team
Despite sharing common values, there is no formula for the perfect agile team. Some implement scrum while others use kanban. Agile purists prefer co-located teams, but business realities sometimes necessitate distributing an agile team across geographies. Most agile teams possess all the required skills, but sometimes it’s necessary to call on specialists for specific work. So how do you know whether your team is on the path to greatness? Read on.
How to scale Jira Software to 10,000+ users
What do you do when your Jira Software instance grows from 10 to 10,000+ users? This was what Brian Wallace and Mike Damman, Vice President and Knowledge Architect at Cerner, the leading U.S. supplier of healthcare information technology, needed to answer in order to meet the needs of their growing teams. How do you guarantee reliability […]
The importance of empathy in coding interviews
A loss of color to the face. Sweaty palms and clammy handshakes. Cracking voices and fumbled words. Yes, I am describing one of the most-feared elements of any job search: the interview. At Atlassian, we’re all about teams and how they work together to create great things. And in this pursuit, it’s essential that we […]
Portfolio for Jira meets kanban
No matter what agile framework your team uses, Portfolio for Jira can forecast a realistic roadmap for your product or project. In our blogs about Portfolio for Jira, we’ve focused heavily on Scrum methodology, but lately we’ve been getting more questions about how kanban can be planned in Portfolio for Jira. So lets see how […]
Bitbucket Data Center is now available for growing teams
Whether you’re burning the midnight oil at a startup or starting a new project within a larger organization, we want to be part of your Git journey. And in order to do that, we need to be there from the start. So Bitbucket Data Center now offers source code collaboration for professional teams, across any […]
Codegeist 2016: help teams work better
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89MoWzAlLZo&w=560&h=315] We’re happy to announce Codegeist, Atlassian’s 9th add-on online hackathon. Add-ons allow you to extend Jira and other Atlassian products with even more functionality. You can find over 2,000 add-ons in the Atlassian Marketplace. Have an idea about how to make Jira, Confluence, Hipchat, or Bitbucket even better? Build an add-on or find […]
How we choose DevOps tools at JAMF Software
This is a guest post from DevOps Manager Michael Kren and is part of a blog series about how he started a culture of DevOps at JAMF Software – how he built his team and the tools he used. His entire DevOps journey is collected in an ebook, which is available for download. Read on and check out the ebook!
Meet the winners of AtlasCamp’s ShipIt Live!
Back in May, Atlassian hosted AtlasCamp 2016 in the beautiful city of Barcelona. It was our biggest and best developer conference yet, with over 500 developers and vendors from Europe and beyond in attendance. This year’s event featured two packed developer tracks, certification, and marketing training, Expert Partner and an AUG leader day, a women-in-tech […]
Improving how we handle your feedback
At Atlassian, we’re always trying to improve how we operate, and dealing with issue reports from customers is no exception. We’ve noticed for a while that many of our customers struggle to find the right channel to report issues with Atlassian products, so recently we set out to fix this. In the past, there were […]
3 new features in Bitbucket including commit-level review
Bitbucket 4.8 is all about faster turnaround time for pull requests and zero downtime backup. Keep reading about three new features and how each one helps teams collaborate to produce higher quality code. Break down big or long-running pull requests with commit-level review Pull requests make collaboration easier for developers wherever or whoever you are […]
When I grow up, I want to be… a development lead?
It’s not quite what I had in mind when growing up, but right now my role title tells me I am a team lead. In the course of my time in this role, I’ve learned that being a team lead is something my fellow developers are interested in doing someday, so I want to share about my experience. This is what I’ve learned in discovering what it means to be a team lead.
Joining the Atlassian family
Just over three years ago, we embarked on a journey with a simple goal in mind. The software world was moving quickly in the direction of rented servers, hosted solutions, and outsourced vendors, all in service of allowing teams and companies to move quicker and to be more nimble than ever before. What used to […]