Skiblz Cam for JIRA: Codegeist’s $10K March Prize Winner

Back in February, we launched the latest edition of Atlassian's add-on development competition, Codegeist. We invited developers everywhere to build add-ons for JIRA, Confluence, Stash, and our developer tools, with the promise of $65,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to sell their add-on commercially on the Atlassian Marketplace. Last month, we announced Content Scheduler for Confluence as our February winner, which brings us to March... Skiblz Cam, our March winner! We're pleased

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Customize Confluence Blueprints to Fit Your Team’s Business Process

It’s been nearly a month since we released Confluence Blueprints, ready-made best practices to common business problems. We already showed you how to run effective meetings and share files using two of the blueprints available in Confluence, now let's take a look at how to customize the various blueprints to match your teams' business processes. Customizing Blueprints' Page Templates Confluence comes budled with three different blueprints - Meeting Notes, File Lists, and Product Requirements.

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How Confluence Developers Avoid Branching from a Bad Commit

The Stash team recently released the Stash-Bamboo plugin, which surfaces pass/fail results from Bamboo builds inside Stash. The main use case for the plugin is to let people reviewing a pull request see whether tests are passing on the development branch before they give the thumbs-up for merging it into master. Pretty cool. So I asked Build engineering to install the plugin on the Bamboo instance we use to build and test Confluence. For now, Bamboo is configured to notify Stash only for "A1.

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How to Share Files with Your Team Using Confluence

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian's tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. It's been almost a month since we released Confluence Blueprints, ready-made best practices to common business problems. The response has been overwhelmingly positive as users everywhere discover the power of Confluence for solving their everyday problems. One of the most frustrating of these problems is

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View Visio Diagrams Free in Confluence with Lucidchart

This is a guest blog from Ryan Butters, VP of Sales and Marketing for Lucidchart, a vendor in the Atlassian Marketplace and makes of Lucidchart for Confluence. Lucidchart is proud to announce a free Visio Viewer plugin for Confluence. The viewing functionality is bundled with our diagramming application, but you won’t need to pay a cent in order to use and enjoy the Visio Viewer. Now your entire organization can view Microsoft Visio files in a cloud-based, easy-to-use, completely free format.

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How to Run Effective Meetings with Confluence

How many times have you left a meeting thinking it was a waste of time? Have you ever felt 'meeting dread' because you know that the next hour is time better spent actually getting work done? The fact is most of the meetings we attend during the day don't accomplishing anything. Meetings with no agenda, meetings full of non sequiturs, or meetings with no actionable deliverables to follow up on afterwards are far too common in the work place. Your team might even be suffering from Reckless Meeting

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