Our recent webinar featuring product rock stars Jens Schumacher and Ken Olofsen gave a great overview of git workflows. Branching workflows go from bare and simple, to complex, robust, and defensive. What is the level of complexity and safeguard needed by your organization? This post covers the compromise between nimbleness and robustness, with...

Our recent webinar featuring product rock stars Jens Schumacher and Ken Olofsen gave a great overview of git workflows. Branching workflows go from bare and simple, to complex, robust, and defensive. What is the level of complexity and safeguard needed by your organization? This post covers the compromise between nimbleness and robustness, with...

Any agile coach (except perhaps Chet Rong) will tell you that there are a few critical keys to doing agile right: Don’t depend on email and spreadsheets; collaborate on work with an issue tracker. A short daily stand-up is important to keep everyone up to date on progress and identify dependencies. Display all critical team information on...

Any agile coach (except perhaps Chet Rong) will tell you that there are a few critical keys to doing agile right: Don’t depend on email and spreadsheets; collaborate on work with an issue tracker. A short daily stand-up is important to keep everyone up to date on progress and identify dependencies. Display all critical team information on...

Within our support system, we face quite a few tasks that could be made easier with some kind of automation/scripting layer. Just to mention some examples: Imagine we do not receive a comment on an support ticket for more than 14 days. Can we close the issue? Does our customer need any further help? After we suggest a resolution, we often are...

Within our support system, we face quite a few tasks that could be made easier with some kind of automation/scripting layer. Just to mention some examples: Imagine we do not receive a comment on an support ticket for more than 14 days. Can we close the issue? Does our customer need any further help? After we suggest a resolution, we often are...

Last week we held a webinar titled “Feature development lifecycle with Git”. This time we tried a different approach. I wanted to give the attendees the feeling they were sitting beside me while I worked through a simple bug-fix end-to-end, from branch creation, through code review, to the final merge. I think we can safely call the...

Last week we held a webinar titled “Feature development lifecycle with Git”. This time we tried a different approach. I wanted to give the attendees the feeling they were sitting beside me while I worked through a simple bug-fix end-to-end, from branch creation, through code review, to the final merge. I think we can safely call the...

This post is part of a series of blogs on Atlassian QA. We will cover how the QA strategy has been implemented in different teams, the tools and techniques we use, and the personal experiences from members of the team. Goliath online After arriving at the office, you stop by the kitchen to grab your morning cereal and head to your desk. You...

This post is part of a series of blogs on Atlassian QA. We will cover how the QA strategy has been implemented in different teams, the tools and techniques we use, and the personal experiences from members of the team. Goliath online After arriving at the office, you stop by the kitchen to grab your morning cereal and head to your desk. You...

Before joining Atlassian, I’d been working on various projects that still used Subversion (SVN) as their version control system. I had moved to Git already years before, and I wanted to keep using it as much as possible. Luckily I could use git-svn: An incredibly complete solution to interact with Subversion repositories without leaving...

Before joining Atlassian, I’d been working on various projects that still used Subversion (SVN) as their version control system. I had moved to Git already years before, and I wanted to keep using it as much as possible. Luckily I could use git-svn: An incredibly complete solution to interact with Subversion repositories without leaving...

This is the first in a series of blogs on Atlassian QA. We will cover how the QA strategy has been implemented in different teams, the tools and techniques we use, and the personal experiences from members of the team. The JIRA engineering team is large, consisting of 78 developers and team leads, 10 product managers, six UI designers, and...

This is the first in a series of blogs on Atlassian QA. We will cover how the QA strategy has been implemented in different teams, the tools and techniques we use, and the personal experiences from members of the team. The JIRA engineering team is large, consisting of 78 developers and team leads, 10 product managers, six UI designers, and...

On the Atlassian Marketplace team, we have a daily standup at 10:30 a.m Pacific. With one permanently remote team member, we were having to manually start a Google Hangout on the wallboard every morning. To make matters worse, our standup music was played by a small app which pulled the wallboard out of fullscreen mode. I took it upon myself to...