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Why Slacking off can speed up your productivity

Being busy is very often a waste of time. Slacking off can actually get better results. Just ask nature.

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Test automation: the secret to DevOps success

This is a guest post by Susana Diaz, Product Marketing Manager at Infostretch, makers of QMetry products available in the Atlassian Marketplace. DevOps is designed to enable a culture where development and operations come together to build, test and deploy applications in order to reduce overall deployment time. As the DevOps movement gathers pace, some […]

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How the Daily Telegraph’s IT team used Confluence to fuel tenfold growth

The Daily Telegraph is the UK’s #1 news brand. Through its newspapers, mobile apps, website, and magazines, the Telegraph reaches 2.1M viewers every day. Before using Confluence, The Telegraph was outsourcing IT services, and suffering from poor resolution times and lack of transparency. It didn’t have a living knowledge base or an effective collaboration solution […]

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Summit Europe & AtlasCamp 2017 early bird registration now open

That’s right! Atlassian Summit, our annual user conference, is coming to Europe for the very first time. Summit is the time of year where our customers from around the globe gather their teams to learn, be inspired, and have fun. And we want you to be there! If you’re serious about getting the most out of our […]

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12 essential skills you need in a help desk job

Working at a help desk or in a support role is a great way to be tapped into the core of any business: customers and products. In a help desk job, you get to connect with customers, understand their experience with your company, and get to know the product inside and out. It takes a […]

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Bitbucket Server: a year in review

2016 has certainly been a year for the books. All year long the Bitbucket Server & Data Center team has been improving Bitbucket and adding new features you have requested. You told us that modern software developers require tools that are reliable, let them move fast, and build with high quality. We took your feedback […]

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Create & edit from wherever you are with Confluence Cloud for iPhone

Work doesn’t only happen at your desk—ideas you want to capture can pop into your head wherever you are. When you visit customers and get new insights, you might want to update your project requirements. Maybe you need to jot down the outcomes of a meeting. In the past, you’ve had to wait until you’ve […]

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Display Jira Issues in Confluence: more power, more control

Having the information you need to do your job doesn’t have to be hard. Creating a single source of truth for your project details and issue tracking is effortless too, with a seamless way to display Jira issues in Confluence. Have more control over which issues show up and how they appear, right from your […]

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Inside Atlassian: how to make team decisions without killing your momentum

It’s hard enough making decisions by ourselves. Sandwich or salad? Coffee or tea? T-shirt or button-down? Now imagine if your whole team was in your closet, helping to choose your outfit. The teams we work with represent a wide variety of expertise and experience, and that can cause conflict when a decision needs to be […]

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Moving down the corporate ladder

On the go? You can listen to this blog using the player below.  [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311607484″ params=”color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] “I don’t think I’ve been doing a very good job lately.” Not the way I usually kick off 1-on-1 meetings with my boss. But that day, it’s what needed to be said. I’d been managing […]

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Inside Atlassian: stopping team dysfunction before it starts

This is not the story of a team that was obviously broken. On the surface, we looked like your typical, high-powered marketing team. Busy, ambitious, and fueled by constant pressure from crazy deadlines. We played nicely together, collaborating early and often. We respected each other. We liked each other.  Collaboration, respect, a bit of office-appropriate […]

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All great things start as a page

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but over 100 million pages have been created in Confluence. That’s 100 million pages filled with big ideas that have brought different teams together to work on a common goal, a few million that fueled debate or sparked joy, and thousands that have led to some team’s “next big […]

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User testing in the software development process… when you don’t have a billion users

In DevOps circles, there’s a myth about the software development process: real software teams automate everything. Look at Facebook. Look at Google. Look at Etsy. Companies killing it at DevOps. Hundreds of deployments a day. Push-button, amazing, magical automation. And like many myths, there’s some truth to this one. Continuous integration, automated testing, and cloud-deployment […]

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Establishing a single source of truth across the product organization

Josh Elman, Partner at Greylock Ventures, once said that the most important thing a product manager does is document decisions. Document decisions – really? With all the things a PM has to do, from setting the product roadmap, to aligning with the strategy of the business and the needs of the customers, it can be […]

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How we built Bitbucket Data Center to scale

This post is the first part of a series on how we built Bitbucket Data Center to scale. Check out the entire series here Today is Bitbucket Data Center’s second birthday! It really was two years ago that Stash Data Center 3.5 (as it was then called) became the first collaborative Git solution on the market built for […]