Organizing issues with priority to optimize delivery
I’ve had a number of people ask me lately, “how can I use priority to better manage issues inside of JIRA?” Throughout my career in software different teams have used priority to communicate different...
View ArticleIntroducing new Atlassian Enterprise offerings
Many companies begin their JIRA journey by running it on a server under someone’s desk. This is typically a short-lived situation – After someone inadvertently unplugs that machine one too many times,...
View ArticleAwesome issues for Git branching workflows
At the heart of every software team is a vibrant culture around creation, organization, and delivery of work. All types of work – be it new features, bugs, spikes… are called ‘issues’ inside of JIRA....
View ArticleGuest blog: Burnup reports for agile teams
Atlassian’s public issue tracker, jira.atlassian.com, contains all kinds of feature requests from our customers. Occasionally, our ecosystem of add-on developers takes it upon themselves to build an...
View ArticleNew webinar! Untangled development with Git Essentials
Today’s best software is made not by lone hackers coding in solitary basements, but by teams of “makers” working together to build the next great thing. But without shared workflows, rigorous testing,...
View ArticleMeet the new gold standard in workflow automation
I’ve been called many things by many people, and ‘borderline OCD’ is one that pops up more frequently than I should probably admit. It’s just so satisfying when my own records match those of my bank…...
View ArticleJIRA 6.3: Untangle Development
Software teams can now easily implement development best practices and world-class project tracking at the same time. JIRA 6.3 is more tightly integrated with Stash and Bitbucket for teams using Git...
View ArticleQA Webinar: How to Deliver Quality Assurance at Speed
As teams transition to an agile development workflow, many struggle with how to adapt traditional testing methods in an agile culture. Teams are often forced to trade off the quality of their product...
View Article5 tips for great code reviews
In almost every organization, team members collaborate to get work done. Software teams typically transition issues between people for different functions like code development, code review, and...
View ArticleJIRA Agile 6.6 – Now available
It’s no secret that better planning means faster and higher quality deliverables for any agile team. Our newest release of JIRA Agile provides richer data during the planning process by making agile...
View ArticleIntroducing Team Calendars 5: Build your schedule with custom event types
In our last major release, Team Calendars 4, we moved away from calendar types to event types so that you could centralize your team’s schedule into fewer calendars. Shortly after the release, a...
View ArticleAnnouncing JIRA Portfolio: View, plan, & manage initiatives
JIRA Portfolio is available today for JIRA Server. Coming soon for JIRA Cloud and Data Center. I’m excited to announce a new member to the JIRA family: JIRA Portfolio. As agile methodology becomes the...
View ArticleTAM Day: Top 5 best practices at enterprise scale
Summit 2014 has officially ended and, with over 2,100 attendees, was our biggest annual conference yet. One of my favorite additions to Summit this year was an event hosted by the Technical Account...
View ArticleGetting the right data from your users to ease developer pain
Successful product teams incorporate user feedback throughout their development cycle. Product owners meet with customers. Development teams respond to bug reports internally and issues from the...
View ArticleQA Webinar: ‘How to Deliver Quality Assurance at Speed’ recap
Last week Penny Wyatt, leader of the JIRA QA team, hosted a webinar on how the JIRA team does QA. Several hundred people attended and a total of 154 questions were asked throughout the presentation....
View Article4 tips to get more out of JIRA with keyboard shortcuts
I’ve been a JIRA administrator for over five years and have worked with hundreds of customers’ JIRA instances. I’m often asked, ‘How can I get more out of JIRA?’ For JIRA users, I always give the same...
View ArticlePutting a lasso on the Salesforce development process
Developing on the Salesforce platform can become complex to manage as your team and your projects grow and mature. At Atlassian, our internal Salesforce development team started five years ago with a...
View ArticleWebinar recap: ‘Intro to JIRA Portfolio’
Last week, Martin Suntinger, Product Manager for JIRA Portfolio, hosted an introductory webinar on JIRA Portfolio. Attendees stole the show and asked 638 questions (638!). Whether or not he realized...
View ArticleWatch the JIRA Keynote from Summit 2014
2014 has been an exciting year for software teams here at Atlassian. During the JIRA keynote at Atlassian Summit 2014, we highlighted all of the changes and improvements (both past and present) that...
View ArticleImportant support policy change
To better serve our customers and partners, Atlassian has modified our security policy for JIRA, Confluence, and Stash. Atlassian Cloud customers are not affected by any of the changes described in...
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