Monthly Archives: February 2008

Developing in an Open Company is a Fairytale

There's special perks that you get out of working for an open company, where customers can communicate with us directly and publicly. We came across one of these recently when we implemented Personal Licenses for JIRA 4.0. Very early on in the issue's history (JRA-10393), a user (Zak Nixon) posted some extra incentive to get this feature done: Once we finished this feature, another user (Mike Robertson) posted a little 'thank you' that made our day: I'd like to use this blog as an opportunity

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Maven in our development process. Part 1 – Requirements.

At Atlassian we use Maven as part of our development process. The key with Maven is to set it up correctly as a process. In order to do that you need to understand who uses it, what they use it for and what they expect from it. It's quite common to read complaints about Maven, so in this four-part series I will show you how we have set up our process at Atlassian. I hope this will help you avoid some of the common pitfalls of setting up Maven. Our Maven users Atlassian's Maven infrastructure has

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JIRA 3.12 (as seen through the eyes of Iteration Title Cards)

JIRA team has one week iteration cycles. It means that that we form streams, each stream consists of a single person or a pair (pair programming). At the beginning of an iteration we do some planning. Each stream (support, bug fixing, feature development) gets work allocated. Work pieces are represented by task cards that we put up on the wall and tick off as we progress. Above all, there is a title card. These are the title cards we artistically created: and some of the

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Atlassian Wants to Sponsor Your User Group!

Atlassian loves user groups and wants to help make yours a raging success. Here's what we can offer: * Pizza and drinks * Book of the Month * Nifty Atlassian Swag (w00t!) * And oh so much more! And why not invite us? If an Atlassian developer is in your area and you'd like for us to attend, we'll do our best to stop by. For more details, check out our User Group Sponsorship page or feel free to e-mail me and I'll hook you up! For more information contact Laura at lkhalil [at] atlassian [dot]

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