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The how and why behind Trello’s visual brand guide

There are a lot of Trello things out there: web and mobile apps, marketing pages, documentation, blog themes, emails, t-shirts, stickers, help sites, swag, presentations, business cards, hats, and maybe a one-off belt buckle.

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Codegeist 2015: Enhance the tools you use

We’re delighted to announce Atlassian’s 8th add-on hackathon. Do you have an idea to make JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, or Bitbucket even better? Build an add-on, launch it in the Atlassian Marketplace, and you could be the next winner of Codegeist. Whether you’re an experienced add-on developer or trying something new, now is the time to build your add-on […]

Article in Development

Codegeist 2015: Enhance the tools you use

We’re delighted to announce Atlassian’s 8th add-on hackathon. Do you have an idea to make JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, or Bitbucket even better? Build an add-on, launch it in the Atlassian Marketplace, and you could be the next winner of Codegeist. Whether you’re an experienced add-on developer or trying something new, now is the time to build your add-on […]

Article in Teamwork

5 easy steps to help your agile team run better sprint retrospectives

The agile development process is a fast-paced, iterative work environment that involves short sprint cycles and frequent deliverables.  But does it actually work? 

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Maintaining company culture as your agile teams scale

Establishing a unified culture with a small team can be easy. But as an organization grows, maintaining that same agile culture gets more and more challenging. Teams can become siloed, and the shared company vision, norms, systems, and habits are more difficult to preserve. So what lessons can we impart about keeping your culture intact as your agile teams scale?

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Skyscanner’s tips for bug triage in Jira + Jira Service Desk

When something goes wrong, it’s nice to know that you can simply raise a ticket and see it fixed. For those of us doing the fixing, it’s not as easy as it looks. You’ve probably got a backlog of tickets that you need to sort through each day. Some of those tickets actually report a […]

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What every product manager needs to know about product analytics

This post is part of our collection on product management. Learn best practices and get advice from Atlassian’s product managers here. As product managers, we take every opportunity we get to learn more about our customers because understanding their needs is critical to building and releasing useful products. This means conducting customer interviews, running surveys, and […]

Article in Jira Service Management

Seven ways to create an awesome self-service culture

If there’s a shining light in the IT world that cuts those less-than-urgent tickets in half, it’s self-service. Self-service is a lifesaver, on both ends, because it helps your customers find what they’re looking for and it lets the IT team do what they do best: keep your business running smoothly.

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Smaller Java images with Alpine Linux

Sometimes I need to be hit in the head with an axe to find a solution to a problem that has been bugging me forever. A minimal Java container has been on my wish list since I found out about Docker and I’ve been writing about running Java in Docker for sometime already. Official Java images have historically […]

Article in Bitbucket

Awesome Graphs for Bitbucket: visualized statistics for Git and Mercurial repositories

This guest post is written by Alexander Kuznetsov, co-founder of StiltSoft. Alexander has seven years of experience as a software developer, including five years in developing add-ons for Atlassian platforms. He’s also the runner-up of 2012 Codegeist, Atlassian’s add-on development competition, for the add-on he built called, “Awesome Graphs for Stash.” We at StiltSoft, Atlassian […]

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Break it down: decomposing user stories in Jira

With over 500k agile projects in Jira (among just Cloud customers – wow!), we realized we’re sitting on a ton of data that sheds light on how agile teams function. We then bet, that with some anonymized data mining, we could find teams that have a release cadence that they hit sprint after sprint after sprint.

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Collating repositories or grafting earlier history with Git

Let’s add another arrow to our already full quiver of version control tools and techniques. Do you know that the Linux kernel you clone normally contains only a part of its entire history? If you need access to its uninterrupted evolution since the first commit you have to “graft” a few separate repositories together chronologically. In this post I’d […]

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Three simple ways to encourage bug reporting

When it comes to software, bugs are always a concern. A bug in the system can take an entire company down if it goes unnoticed. Staying on top of your system’s health is imperative. But, who hunts for bugs?

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A shake n’ bake recipe for realistic roadmaps with Jira Portfolio

This recipe is for the perfect roadmap. It’s data-driven, realistic, and it’ll give you the ability to combine agile and long term planning, without the need for messy spreadsheets.

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Static Go binaries with Docker on OSX

Recently I’ve been writing a service in Go to enhance the projects dashboard on Bitbucket – if you haven’t heard we launched Atlassian Connect for Bitbucket as a way for anyone to build add-ons for three millions of Bitbucket users out there. Like many other Gophers I’ve been happily deploying my Go services using Docker. The process is smooth and […]