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(Guest Blog) Scaling a test & change management process to meet growing demand

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On May 21, 2012
This is a guest blog post and case study by Go2Group, an Atlassian Platinum Expert and a sponsor of Atlassian Summit 2012. Background RWE Supply & Trading (RWE) is an energy trading company headquartered in Essen, Germany, boasting Europe’s largest and most sophisticated energy trading floor with subsidiaries and affiliates in Den Bosch, Geneva, Singapore and New York. RWE uses Quality Center from HP (HPQC) for both test and change management. With RWE’s high-volume change requests,

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Atlassian Summit 2012: It’s gonna be huge

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On May 15, 2012
Atlassian Summit is just two weeks away. Here's a taste of what you have to look forward to! If you haven't bought a ticket yet, now's your chance to seize the moment! Six awesome marquee speakers Jeff Atwood (codinghorror.com), Michael Lopp (randsinrepose.com), Pamela Fox (indie dev), Eric Ries (Startup Lessons Learned), Dave Thomas (Bedarra Research) and Jeff Ma (MIT Blackjack Team and entrepreneur) will be sharing their secrets to software development on high producing teams. In addition, the

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Atlassian SF – a great place to bike

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On May 10, 2012
Atlassian and five other stellar companies -- AirBnB, Veritable Vegetable, Rackspace, Levi's and Zynga -- were recognized for making it easy for their employees to bike to work, and in doing so, attracting high-quality employees. It was all part of a San Francisco City Hall press conference today for the annual Bike to Work Day where the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Mayor Edwin Lee awarded the first-ever Bicycle-Friendly Business Awards. Read all about the award on the SF Bicycle Coalition website. Looking

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Announcing Atlassian Stash – DVCS management for the enterprise

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On May 1, 2012
Distributed version control systems are not just the future, they're now, and Git has emerged as one of the most popular code version control systems out there. A plethora of online services emerged (including our own Bitbucket) to help early Git adopters share, manage and collaborate their code. For the open source community and many startups, these services have been nothing short of terrific for encouraging code collaboration. But for companies that want to host Git behind the firewall, there

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The Top 8 Reasons to Come to Summit

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On April 29, 2012
Only a handful of tickets remain for Atlassian Summit. Need tips for customizing Confluence, scaling JIRA, or perfecting Agile? With Seven tracks, over 70 speakers, 8 training sessions, you'll be able to tailor the event to meet your specific goals.  Hosted at the beautiful design center in San Francisco it will be the largest Atlassian event ever. A whopping 92.3% of last year's attendees said the 2011 conference did an excellent job of meeting their objectives. We're going for 100% this year! Summit

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Win $10,000 for your charity or non-profit

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On April 26, 2012
The Atlassian Do-Gooder Award is back! Open to our Community License holders, the Do-Gooder award is a competition that simply asks: what's your story? The best story-teller, ie, the winner of the competition, will win a $10,000 donation for their non-profit, a free pass to Atlassian Summit to accept the award, a free stay at the event, reimbursement (up to $500) for airfare, and the everlasting admiration of their peers. Past winners include the International Potato Center and Mercy Ships. The

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