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Announcing JIRA Jr.: It’s Fun-tastic

Software is eating the world. And nobody's hungrier, or youngrier, than our kids. The technology landscape is quickly being reshaped by code-writing hipsters barely out of college. Case in point: just last week, Yahoo! acquired Summly, a company whose CEO still has to go to prom. So it's perplexing: even though entrepreneurs are getting younger, the tools used to build great products remain out of reach for our youngest budding innovators. That changes today. We're stoked to announce JIRA Jr.,

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Atlassian ID: Coming to a Service Near You

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Content Marketing
  • On January 7, 2013
Ever wished you could have one key to access your house, car, bike lock, and office? No more thick keychain bulging in your pocket or weighing down your purse. Well, we don't (yet) have a solution for your house keys, but we do have the online equivalent. Later this month, we'll be implementing a new "one key" approach to all of the Atlassian services, and we'd like to take a little time now to tell you about it. Introducing Atlassian ID, a single login for the many Atlassian websites you use

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Hello Answers, goodbye Forums

It's been nearly 18 months since we launched Atlassian Answers – our community-curated Q&A site that aims to get users helping users with product questions. Ten-thousand users later, the site exploded faster out of the gate than Usain Bolt at the 2012 Olympics. The Rise of Answers Within the first 90 days of the launch of Atlassian Answers, our content numbers would be the envy of any community manager: 1485 questions, 2269 answers, and 1398 comments. Insert happy emoticon here, ie, it

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[Guest blog] Eliminate Misunderstandings – Use Screen Recording for Task Specifications

Ari Heljakka is CSO of Dream Broker, the development lead of ScreenMail, and a former key contributor in OpenCog. You can connect with him on Twitter. In projects where all parties are not continuously communicating, misunderstanding what you are supposed to do can be costly. Even small misinterpretations of a required feature can lead to wrong things being implemented, wasting days or even weeks of work before the error will be found out and corrected (if it will, that is). Fighting the Most Costly

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Trail-building at Lands End

Atlassian offers employees five days per year to work at charities of their choosing. We call them Foundation Days. Having lived in the SF Bay Area most of my life, it's hard to believe I never visited Lands End, located at the western-most end of town, just beyond the suburban enclave of the Outer Richmond district. Now that I've been there, I'm mentally adding to my list of things to tell out of towners to do. If you've been to SF, you've probably heard the locals tell you to visit Coit Tower,

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Reasons to go to AtlasCamp 2012, Part 2

Here's a little secret: year after year, AtlasCamp attendees tell us it's not only one of the best, but the best conference they attend all year. We put more than 10x the money into Atlassian Summit than we do AtlasCamp, but AtlasCamp often wins the popularity poll because it gives people more concentrated networking time, has a solid agenda, allows them to meet 1-on-1 with our developers, and... and the people who attend AtlasCamp know how to have fun! This year, we want your significant other

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