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ShipIt Day: Out with the Old, In with the New

In May, we announced that our innovation day had creeped on to the radar of none other than [redacted] Corp itself. After they asked us (kindly!) to discontinue using their brand in connection with our event, we put out an open call for help finding a new name for our hack day that still retained its ambitious "ship in a day" flavor. The volume of responses was stunning, but not surprising considering how much the concept has grown in the hands of other companies like Adobe, Symantec, Ambientia,

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UPDATED: The recording of iDeveloper Live Episode 50 featuring JIRA Mobile Connect is now available for download and on iTunes.  We launched JIRA Mobile Connect (JMC), a free library for JIRA that allows mobile developers to gather in-app feedback from their users, back in October 2011. Then, we introduced iPad compatibility and HockeyApp integration for JMC in January 2012, so that developers could seriously beta test their apps before releasing them to the wild. Now, our very own Nick

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ShipIt Day: And the winner is…

Every quarter, our engineers get to 24 hours to work on anything they want related to Atlassian with the aim of shipping a functional product. We call these innovation days ShipIt Days. We've run nineteen ShipIt Days total, with over 550 projects presented since our inaugural event. And in November 2011, we launched a campaign to put on a ShipIt Day for another company – beer, trophies, and ShipIt Experts supplied by us.  We held a call for entries to our ShipIt Day campaign for only one month

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Talk to your users. Build better apps. Get better reviews. These steps seem simple enough, but we're not surprised that things can get a little tricky when you try to walk the walk. How do you connect with your users and collect feedback with the detail you need to fix bugs quickly, add features relevantly, and make a better app overall? Well, mobile developers, ask and ye shall receive. Last October, we launched JIRA Mobile Connect, a tool to gather in-app feedback from your users. In

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(Guest blog) 10 Top Tips for Test Managers

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. This post is written by Kieran Williams, QA Manager at Catch who has developed the highly successful QA management tool Enterprise Tester. Kieran has been involved in software testing since 1999. Have you noticed most of the testing information out there is quite often about the theory of testing?

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This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. The post is Part 1 of a two-part blog series on changing tester skillsets written by Craig Smith, an Agile Coach in Suncorp's Business Services division. Imagine this scenario. You are standing in an elevator with a senior manager and on the ride to the ground floor, after the usual pleasantries,

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