Innovation
How to add bots to your workflows the proper (read: productive) way
If you use digital applications to communicate or do any part of your work, you’ve probably heard about bots. These task-based automated programs may be poised to become the next big thing in the software economy – and it helps that they’re useful to individuals and companies alike.
Love working smarter? These are the 12 productivity bots you’re looking for
“I hate tools that help me work more efficiently and communicate more clearly,” said no one ever. Enter: Your bot minions.
Why you get more done when you gamify your life
As a kid playing games, you didn’t stay up for hours because of the music, the graphics, or the storyline. Rather, it was because the games were so difficult that any kind of achievement was a massive deal for your 8-year-old self.
4 science-backed methods to stop procrastinating
You have a huge deadline hanging over your head, and you know you should just get started but you can’t quite seem to stop procrastinating. Instead you answer a few emails, clean through your files, call your grandma, and organize your sock drawer—anything you can find to delay that daunting project just a little bit longer.
Learn to create a marketing workflow in the new ebook
We created the ebook “Atlassian for marketing teams: workflows” to help you begin to visualize your work. A marketing workflow helps support your projects and get them moving along on time, with all the assets and feedback they require. The ebook will get your marketing team familiar with the concepts of visualizing and implementing a workflow, and it offers examples and tips to get you going, whether your project involves managing a complex process with loads of stakeholders, or something less involved. A blog marketing workflow is offered as a familiar example, and the ways tools like Confluence and Jira Core make it come to life.
Agile marketing: fad or future of marketing?
Can agile methodologies used to deliver products really help marketers in delivering campaigns? We think the answer is yes. In today’s world of constant customer feedback, marketers must be able to adjust their plans based on what’s trending in digital and social media. And with that, they need a better way to manage their marketing projects. That is why many are looking at agile marketing and methods such as scrum and kanban, to help.
The science behind sweden’s six-hour workday
This just in: 6 hours are better than 8. Wait, what?
Why you need to train your brain to be more productive
Humans have a self-destructive love for quick fixes. Is this you? You don’t spend time developing systems (snooze), but you do read “53749 tips to boost your productivity” articles. It makes sense; you want to throw as much stuff at the wall and be pleased if anything sticks.
Why you open too many browser tabs and how to stop it
Are you a digital packrat? Specifically, are you the type of person that has 50 browser tabs open all the time? The top bar of your browser is so squished that you have memorized the Favicon on every site for which you’re a frequent flyer. Those little icons are basically the only way you can discern anything as you drown in a browser tab sea of your own making.
The invisible problem wrecking your productivity and how to stop it
In all of the myriad articles and advice on productivity, there is one evil lurking in our activities, one activity that when mastered, opens the door to potential productivity paradise. When it comes down to it, distractions (or lack thereof) are the real crux of working better. They’re a big culprit behind one of the worst productivity destroyers of the work day: context switching.
How to find your most productive hours
Not all hours are created equal. Sometimes an hour is enough to blaze through a massive project, and other times all you manage is to tiredly send a couple of unimportant emails.
5 tips for building the right diagram for your business challenge
A quick look at the Atlassian marketplace reveals that diagramming tools are some of the most popular add-ons available. There’s a reason for that: complicated tasks and concepts are often better expressed visually. Who wants read walls of text or a tab-filled spreadsheet? In the human brain, visuals are processed 60,000x faster than text, so organizing information in the most digestible way is a huge communication advantage.
Inside Atlassian: building a culture of innovation
Fostering a culture of innovation isn’t about providing ping-pong and free beer. It’s about your values and how you live them. Here’s a look at how we build a culture of innovation and how your company can, too.
What’s a TAM?
Learn how a Technical Account Manager can help you get the most out of your Atlassian investment.