JIRA 6 available today!

Meet the new JIRA Modern. Fast. Mobile. Simple. JIRA 6 is a completely new JIRA. The redesigned look and feel brings a whole new user experience to JIRA. It is modern and simple, clearing away the clutter so that you can get your work done faster. It's also mobile so you can work with your project on the go. Check it out: Play  Enjoy the preview? Register for the What's New in JIRA 6 webinar today. Sign up for the JIRA 6 webinar JIRA 6 represents the biggest release of JIRA in over three

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Make Growth Easy: Why People Choose JIRA 6

JIRA is used by nearly 20,000 teams, spanning 115 countries around the globe. Why do so many companies choose JIRA? Because it lets their teams plan more efficiently, communicate more effectively, and get work done faster. To understand how JIRA makes collaboration easy, let's start with why collaboration gets difficult. Growth makes things complicated! Growth is a good thing; it enables ideas to foster and come to market. Growth also makes things tough because culture and processes don't always

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Maven Git Flow Plugin for Better Releases

What is JGit Flow and Why Do I Need a Maven Plugin? If you missed my other blog post, I recently release a Java library named jgit-flow that implements the git-flow branching and merging model introduced by Vincent Driessen in Java. My hope is that developers will use this library to integrate git-flow workflows inside of their Java apps, and to get the ball rolling, I thought I'd be the first integrator. If you read my other blog post, you'll remember that although git-flow is really useful,

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Reason #17 for working at Atlassian: Friends & Family Day

  • By Verity Bell, Event Co-ordinator Sydney
  • On May 17, 2013
For one night only North Sydney Oval, turned from cricket ground to Atlassian Fairground folly and Twilight Cinema. Our closest friends and family held the V.I.P passes, opening the gates to a free carnival of inflatable rides and giant lawn games. The adults ruled the Charlie cornhole, while the kids owned the dinosaur slide and kicked-ass at Giant Jenga. In between the fun and games, our personal Mr Whippy van made sure all the kids (and kids at heart) had enough ice-cream to

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A Solution to SSO Authentication and Identity Management: Lessons Learned

Here at Atlassian, we recently went through an exercise to consolidate the authentication and identity management of our key support systems.  As we have grown, we have seen a number of account silos materialize across our system landscape. This required customers to have separate logins for support, forums, account management, etc., resulting in a frustrating experience for our customers, and a tough situation for Atlassian staff. The problem of multiple account silos is common across the

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Meet the New JIRA: Watch Issues in Bulk!

Staying Connected to JIRA: Subscriptions and Bulk Watch I've got great news for you: JIRA 6.0 is coming soon!  Amongst many great new features, this release of JIRA will support bulk watching of issues. Atlassian has a public JIRA instance, jira.atlassian.com, where we get a massive amount of feedback from our customers.  When making decision about how to evolve a product like JIRA, the product managers consider a wide variety of factors: customer content, community forums, support, Atlassian

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