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Do you have the ping pong skills?

Friendly competition is a staple at Atlassian. From Halloween costume and gingerbread contests, skeet shooting, poker game nights, spur of the moment foot races and even departmental competitions regarding work, Atlassians make any situation and challenge fun. When we moved to our new office in San Francisco, our brand new foosball and ping pong tables got heavy use. Naturally, we immediately organized a tournament, and the games unfolded. Nearly 40 people signed up to play in the first ping

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(Guest blog) Tackling the top 10 games development problems using Atlassian tools

Atlassian has been helping hundreds of game developers produce the top games of the day for years now. It seems like just yesterday when we had Steve Weibe, of 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' fame, at our GDC booth trying to best his Donkey Kong world record. Alas, that was years ago, and so many games have been developed since then utilizing our tools. This is a guest blog post by Gareth Wilson from Adaptavist who are an Atlassian Platinum Expert. Adaptavist provide services and

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Video: Confluence Dashboards Plugin

Today we held a webinar with Adaptavist on the Confluence Dashboards plugin. The Confluence Dashboards plugin makes the perfect dashboard or landing page for your Confluence wiki. It allows you to aggregate all of the key information on a personalized, customizable page. Whether it be RSS feeds, wiki pages, macros or OpenSocial Gadgets, they can all be added to the page, which you can arrange however you want. Learn how to save yourself time and effort in finding and keeping up with the important

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(Case Study) Social Commerce and our Hosted Development Tool Suite

Founded: 2010 HQ: Delaware (as any startup is) Employees: 10 Products: Hosted tool suite Our case studies are typically from well established companies. It's not often that we hear from a fresh new startup with no website or public products. But this in fact was the case when I was contacted by Ovidiu Pitic, Founder and Operations Manager, of Mayabo. Mayabo develops Whooparoo, a social commerce platform for online retailers, which has just launched (they were in private beta during

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Webinar: Confluence Dashboards Plugin

On October 19th we will host a webinar with Adaptavist on the Confluence Dashboards plugin. The Confluence Dashboards plugin makes the perfect dashboard or landing page for your Confluence Wiki. It allows you to aggregate all of the key information on a personalised, customisable page. Whether it be RSS feeds, Wiki pages, macros or OpenSocial Gadgets, they can all be added to the page, which you can arrange however you want. Learn how to save yourself time and effort in finding and keeping up with

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(Case Study) Build.com on Atlassian’s Software Development Tools

Founded: 2000 HQ: Chico, CA Employees: 300 Products: JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo and Crowd It was brought to my attention that a customer of ours, Build.com, was using our software development tools to achieve PCI compliance. I was eager to speak with them so that other companies trying to attain the same security standard could learn how our tools can help. I got the chance to talk with Justin Palmerlee, Director of Software Operations, regarding their use of our agile

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