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4 add-ons to help you test smarter and more efficiently

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Testing our software and applications is one of the most important things we can do as technology makers. In our hyper-connected and “always on” world, if you don’t find the bugs in your product, your customer will – and they’ll probably tweet about it. With the wealth of choices out there […]

Mark a Trello card as done (and drop the mic on that task)

Ever felt that rush of satisfaction from checking an item off your to-do list? That little win can brighten your entire day, giving you the motivation and focus to tackle what’s next. Marking a card as done is now possible. It allows you to update the status of a card with a single click, wherever […]

3 reasons DevOps and the cloud need each other

In a world where frequent releases and iterative feedback rule the software development lifecycle, there’s no better companion for DevOps than the cloud. DevOps and the cloud have emerged as a result of shifts in social behavior along with accompanying adjustments to enterprise response. DevOps is a journey through improved, quick, and continuous software delivery. […]

AWS Quick Starts now available for Jira Service Desk Data Center

At Atlassian Summit 2016, we announced that Data Center customers can now deploy their Jira Software and Bitbucket Data Center instances to Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) in just a few minutes with AWS’s Quick Starts. We’re now excited to announce that Jira Service Desk has joined the family! With AWS’s Quick Starts – powered by […]

The surprising benefits of using emoticons in the workplace

At Atlassian we kind of  emoticons. We use them constantly in our team chats and conversations, and they’re a big part of our company culture. We love them so much, we thought we’d conduct a study of how they are used in the workplace to see if anyone else feels the way we do. Our […]

How AI is transforming the work of software teams

This is a guest post written by Scott Middleton, founder and CEO of stratejos as well as part-time sausage maker. stratejos is a smart assistant for software teams using Jira and Hipchat. Will you still be doing your job in 5-10 years or will a robot do it for you? This is a question knowledge workers […]

Enterprise chat: 8 reasons your engineering team will love it

With engineering teams becoming more distributed, it’s important that they remain in constant communication to ship better quality products, faster. Email and traditional meetings present many challenges for teams who work in different locations and across various time zones. Finding a time when everyone is available to meet for a weekly standup, managing incidents, and […]

An agile design prototype is worth a thousand user stories

To prototype, or not to prototype? All web and mobile app experiences are becoming highly immersive. Gone are the days of designing a series of linked webpages. Thoughtful animation and interaction design is key to defining amazing user experiences. Apple’s world famous design director Jony Ive has this to say about the modern day design […]

Coffee talks: how to brew knowledge share culture in your company

It’s Friday afternoon: Do you know where your coworkers are?

5 elements of a perfect pull request

Raise your hand if you remember the days of in-person code reviews. You may recall entire afternoons spent checking out changes from SVN, running them locally, and making notes of areas that could be improved. Next, you’d spend another hour or two in a room with your team discussing suggestions live. Once changes were incorporated, […]

Jira Service Desk is ITIL certified

ITIL is the most widely-used service management framework in the world. It’s essential for organizations to align the assets and functions of IT to the overall business. As the de-facto standard for ITSM, ITIL places your organization on the path to deliver the best, customer-centric service management. And now, Jira Service Desk is ITIL certified […]

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8 SaaS tools that help your company scale as a team

As a fast-growing team of over 100 distributed employees supporting 18 million users worldwide, we’ve been thinking a lot about how to scale successfully as a company. And we focus a lot on great collaboration, teamwork, creativity, and a collective energy to achieve something that’s bigger than ourselves.

How to build an incident response plan

On October 21, 2016 at approximately 4am PST, the internet broke. Ok, ok we know the internet doesn’t “break.” But hundreds of important services powering our modern web infrastructure had outages – all stemming from a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) targeting Dyn, one of the largest DNS (Domain Name System) providers on the internet. […]

Introducing Trello for Google slides

Picture this: You’re strolling into the office on a lovely Tuesday morning humming a little tune when you look over at your colleague’s desk calendar and… oh no, it’s Wednesday?! If it’s Wednesday, then that means the presentation to the whole department is in 10 minutes, and that slide deck you were going make today was meant to be made yesterday.