How to become a high-performing IT support team with DevOps
What do high-performing IT orgs have in common? They’re more agile: They are deploying 30x more frequently and with 200x shorter lead times than their peers. They’re more reliable: They have 60x fewer...
View ArticleFour best practices for using JIRA and Outlook
This is a guest post by Tobias Viehweger, cofounder at yasoon, creating awesome Outlook apps for everyone. In most organizations, email is still the preferred medium for communication. And when we are...
View ArticleWhat agile retrospectives won’t improve, and what you can do about it
I hope you’re doing retrospectives in your project teams. Retrospectives are one of those essential rituals of agile practice. They’re fast, they’re easy, and a great way for a team to focus on how to...
View ArticleThree resolutions for better agile ceremonies
No matter where you fall on the agile scale from newbie to nimble, mastering the basics helps you and your team make awesome software. So in the light of the new year and bettering oneself, we propose...
View ArticleGuest blog: 5 tips for building the right diagram for your business challenge
This is a guest blog post from Emily Bell of Lucidchart, the maker of Lucidchart for Confluence and Lucidchart diagrams for JIRA. A quick look at the Atlassian marketplace reveals that diagramming...
View ArticleSoftware design: creating products customers love
I decided to sit down with different JIRA designers to learn how they reimagined JIRA as JIRA Software, JIRA Core, and JIRA Service desk from a design perspective. The stories were endless, but three...
View Article3 steps to marketing zen: how to visualize your workflow
This post begins our series on Atlassian for marketing teams. Check back for more articles that will help your marketing team – and any other business team – work better together. For most marketing...
View ArticleSeparating the signal from the noise: how Atlassian does proactive support
I’m part of a team called Service Enablement, which is a special project group within the broader support team at Atlassian. We work closely with the support, engineering, product, and design teams to...
View ArticleBe more agile with new sprint permissions
We want teams to succeed and make awesome software. This can be achieved through agile best practices, but it doesn’t hurt when your tools make things easier and more effective for every member of your...
View ArticleUsing JIRA Core marketing and software teams get in sync
This is the second post in our series on Atlassian for marketing teams. Read the first post about visualizing your workflow, and check back for more articles aimed at helping your marketing team – and...
View ArticleStart real-time planning with live plans in Portfolio for JIRA
We’re excited to share the labs release of live plans, a new type of real-time planning experience in Portfolio for JIRA. By loading data dynamically from JIRA Software, live plans lets you plan in...
View ArticleFrom Asana to JIRA Software: one customer’s journey towards agile development
Switch Communications is a San Francisco based company whose mission is to provide cloud-based business communications systems for the fastest growing, most innovative companies in the world. Switch...
View ArticleWhy agile isn’t agile without continuous delivery
Agile practices can be viewed in two ways: recipes and sensors. People with a lot of software experience wrote down the practices that made them most productive. In addition, the practices reveal the...
View ArticleInside Atlassian: example JIRA workflows for tracking blog projects
This is the latest article in our series on Atlassian for marketing teams. Read the other articles in the series, and check back for more that will help your marketing team – and any other business...
View ArticleMy life runs on JIRA: one beer collector’s clever inventory system
This post is from Atlassian AllStar Zack Seibert. Zack is a sys admin at Trifecta Technologies, Inc. where he administers the entire suite of Atlassian applications. He also administers the office beer...
View ArticleKanplan: where your backlog meets kanban
There’s no silver bullet when it comes to picking an agile framework for your agile team. Whether you use kanban, scrum, or a combination of the two, like scrumban, agile is a team process. Every team...
View Article5 JIRA, Confluence, and HipChat integrations to power your marketing team
Here’s the latest article in our Atlassian for marketing teams series. Read other articles in the series, and stay tuned for more that can help your marketing team – and any other business team – work...
View ArticleA marketing workflow example: JIRA for multi-team collaboration
Here’s the latest article in our Atlassian for marketing teams series. Read other articles in the series, and stay tuned for more that can help your marketing team – and any other business team – work...
View ArticleInside Atlassian: tracking blog categories and performance with JIRA custom...
I can hold my own with math and numbers, but I don’t love them. I have to admit though, I’m starting to love data. Like many marketers, I spend a lot of time thinking about blogs. And blogging itself...
View ArticleCreate a portfolio plan in under a minute… and get a t-shirt!
Planning is an integral part of the product development lifecycle. But it can be an overwhelming process, requiring visibility across multiple projects and teams, goal-setting, and scheduling realistic...
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