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Fun Fridays: track New Year’s resolutions in Jira

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Say yes to less stress: using Trello to plan a wedding

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Share your Minecraft world with a Google Map on AWS

Minecraft is one of my favorite video games of the last few years and if sales numbers are anything to go by, over 17 million other people agree with me! One of the great things about Minecraft is the permanence of your achievements; if you build something awesome out of Minecraft blocks, it becomes an indelible […]

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Fun Fridays: a virtual Atlassian user group

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Fun Fridays: Atlassian’s top 3 accomplishments of 2014

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Fun Fridays: shoot from the Hipchat #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLG2s6GuPY

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Feature Branches, Builds and Multiple Environments

In our recent Dev Den Office Hours we were asked some very interesting questions. One that caught my attention and on which I elaborated a bit on was the following: “One question I’ve had a hard time finding info on is in setting up feature branching with multiple environments (dev, test, prod for example) […] I’d love […]

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Using Stash and JIRA for development bliss

A couple of weeks ago I ran a webinar on how to enhance your Git development experience with JIRA and Stash. The half-hour allocated for Q&A wasn’t quite long enough, so I’m following up on some of the unanswered questions in blog form. If you didn’t catch the webinar, it’s now live on YouTube: Check it out if […]

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Fun Fridays: Mark raps about 3 ways he uses Hipchat

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Pull Request Merge Strategies: The Great Debate

When a piece of work is complete, tested and ready to be merged back into your main line of development, your team has some policy choices to make. What are your merge strategy options? In this article I’ll explain the possibilities and then provide some notes on how we do it at Atlassian. Hopefully at […]

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Fun Fridays: introducing a new era in video

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Watch the webinar: practical advice for agile product management

We recently hosted a webinar with two Atlassian product managers called “Practical Advice for Agile Product Management.” Confluence product managers Sherif Mansour and John Masson shared their expertise on the elements that go into building great products, starting with conducting research and customer interviews and concluding with how you can tell a story about your release. We recorded the webinar for any of you that missed it or want to watch it again and share it with your teams.

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Pledge 1%: a new model for corporate philanthropy

Back when Atlassian was a very small company, we made a pledge to divert 1% of equity, 1% of product, 1% of profit, and 1% of employee time to charitable causes–a corporate philanthropy model pioneered by Salesforce. We made that pledge publicly so our customers and staff would hold us accountable. And it worked. Twelve years later, we have helped over 250,000 children in the developing world get an education they wouldn’t otherwise have had access to through a partnership with the Room to Read foundation.

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Inside Atlassian: seven steps for better retrospectives

Happy December, the time for retrospectives! The end of the year is a time for reflection. For our team, each member considers questions like: What went well? What accomplishments did I make? What do I want to improve on? What did I miss that I want to do next year? That’s right, December is our yearly retrospective! (That’s the cool agile term.) Retrospectives are the meetings held after a sprint, iteration, or release.

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How to build a self-service knowledge base

Help yourself, with Jira Service Desk and Confluence. Confluence is the best way to build your team’s knowledge and Jira Service Desk puts that knowledge to work. With the self-serve customer portal, you can help customers help themselves by putting answers directly at their fingertips. This short demo walks you through the seamless integration and shows you how to get going in just a few minutes.