Monthly Archives: December 2011

Countdown of the Top 11 Team Calendars Features in 2011

It's barely been six months since we released Team Calendars 1.0 for Confluence and we've been thrilled by its uptake. 2,635 teams around the world – including Facebook, Skype, and Sony – now have a single source of truth for managing team leave, tracking projects, and planning events. 8 Releases in 6 Months A new Team Calendars release, 30 days or less…guaranteed. You wouldn’t think that the Team Calendars development team and pizza delivery have much in common, but with such a reliable

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JIRA Best XI of 2011

If you follow me on twitter or have ever spent more than 10 minutes with me in person, you'll probably know I'm a huge football fan. I'm not talking gridiron here; I mean the kind you actually play with your feet - aka soccer. So, with my beloved Spurs having their best season in my lifetime, I felt inspired to borrow the "Best XI" format for my 2011 JIRA wrapup. 2011 was an epic year for the JIRA Family including two massive releases, the launch of a new product – Atlassian Bonfire –

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The Starting XI of 2011 – Confluence Edition

While 2011 might be known as the 'Year of the Rabbit', many will remember it as the year Confluence paved the way for the future of online collaboration. 2011 was the year we satisfied more than 2,235 of our customers' votes for new features and improvements with three of our biggest releases, ever. 2011 was the year we took Confluence to the cloud with our new OnDemand platform, made it even more affordable for small teams, and started to get you new features, faster.  2011 was the year a new

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Lo-fi wallboard lets you view build status in the cloud

Here at Atlassian, we have wallboards everywhere. On my team, we have a wallboard that cycles through screens showing the build status, the number of open JIRA issues assigned to team members, how many pending code reviews we have, and relevant deadlines. We recently had a ShipIt Day. ShipIt Days are a chance for developers to work on a project of their choice. Generally these projects are software - new plugins, spikes or products. Anna and I are Confluence developers with a distinctly crafty

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The only way to keep bugs out of your software

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 only surefire way to guarantee bug-free software is to prevent their creation in the first place. Preventing bugs starts with communication and collaboration between product management, development, and QA. Atlassian Bonfire provides the tools and lightweight structure to foster discussion and

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(Case Study) Telestream uses JIRA & FishEye to connect development to the rest of the business

As readers of this blog already know, Atlassian makes a lot of videos! Our YouTube channel grows larger with every company event and product release, and one of the tools we use for screen capture style product demos is Screenflow, made by Telestream. We love Screenflow, and recently Telestream asked us to participate in a case study. Because Telestream is an Atlassian customer as well, we asked if we could reciprocate, and so here it is: the Telestream case study! I recently spoke with Reuben

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