At Atlassian we live in Confluence. Our intranet houses all the content that keeps the company running. This collection of rich pages and blog posts often includes useful links to other relevant Confluence pages, or content from around the web. Linking to other content from the Confluence editor is simple, just type: Trigger autocomplete for links by pressing: Then choose from a list of your recently viewed pages, or start typing to search for other content to link to: Here are four ways you

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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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Each of us has a series of tasks that we do on a recurring basis at work. Engineers typically work with a few key tools such as compilers, source code repositories, issues trackers, build servers, and office tools like email to deliver code back to the company. At Atlassian, we think of product development tasks as falling into three groups: As individuals, we can get a great return on investment from optimizing within that inner loop. These are the tasks you and your team perform every

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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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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

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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