Monthly Archives: September 2007

Atlassian Agile Process part 1

Atlassian adopts a range of development process elements with a strong focus on Agile methods. In practice each product team defines their own process while also attempting to learn from other teams. In JIRA and Confluence, the two largest teams pushing roughly 10 developers each, the process is a fairly complete adoption of Scrum plus XP (eXtreme Programming). The Other XP My first start with XP was in 1999 when I hired a really smart engineer who learned about it from the craftite conspiracy discussions

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Developer blog re-design

Today we've completed an exciting new redesign of this blog. With a cleaner layout, this should make it a bit easier to read on the web, and provide a better fit for code samples and screenshots. We hope you like it. Credit for the design goes to Steve Russell and Zach Davis, a pan-Pacific collaboration of our design and marketing teams. Thanks for your work, guys. We'll be fine-tuning the design over the next few weeks. Be sure to let me know if you spot anything out of the ordinary.

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New JIRA Plugin: GreenHopper, for Agile Teams

One of the recurring religious debates in the agile community is paper cards vs. issue-tracking. One of our very own developers, Charles Miller, is a big fan of using paper cards for planning, although he is quick to note that the Confluence team uses cards in addition to JIRA, not in favour of. And I'll agree with him: there is a certain immediacy to seeing cards on a wall that helps my visual-learning, spatially-oriented brain more quickly understand the scope of the work in front of me. There

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Atlassian "Fedex Day" VI

Here at Atlassian we have just finished up our sixth edition of "Fedex Day". What is it? For those who don't know, "Fedex Day" is Atlassian's irregular answer to Google 20% time: time set aside for developers to work on whatever they want with a skew towards our products. We tend to run "Fedex" with a fairly open format you can do whatever you want as long as you can somehow relate it to our products. We have expanded it such that we set aside 1 1/2 days for the developers to complete their

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