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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 […]

Article in How We Build

Trello Android schema upgrades

For many years, Trello Android has used a simple system for upgrading the database schema: drop the entire database, recreate it, and repopulate the data from the server! While far from ideal, this solution worked because the Trello server was the only source of truth. Any change you made in the app was immediately transmitted […]

Article in Jira

How Jira Core makes me a less grumpy social media marketer

As a Content Marketing Manager, I deal with words all day long. I’m always writing, editing, reading, or posting on social media in the name of Atlassian’s Jira products including Jira Coreand Jira Service Desk. When it comes to social media, the details are key. Every word, every character, and every image counts toward building […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

Article in Innovation

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.

Article in Jira Service Management

Getting more out of your Atlassian products

  These days, many of us rely on teaching ourselves new skills. Whether it’s a Google search, YouTube videos, or word-of-mouth, we’re accustomed to figuring it out as we go. A lot of times, this works just fine, like if you’re learning how to change the battery on your car or how to perfectly poach an […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Article in Confluence

A new way to use Confluence: employee training

This is a guest post written by Katerina Kolina, product owner of Quizzes for Confluence at StiltSoft. StiltSoft is an Atlassian Expert, and a Verified Vendor on the Atlassian Marketplace where they have 15 add-ons for Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket. Every team needs to be well-trained in order to succeed. Be it onboarding new team members, adjusting […]

Article in Innovation

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.