Meet the New & Improved Bamboo OnDemand!

If you're a Bamboo OnDemand subscriber, you could be forgiven for feeling a stab of jealousy every time a batch of new kick-ass features comes out for the on-premises Bamboo offering.  "When, oh when, will it be my turn?", you pined.  Well, if you logged into your Bamboo OnDemand instance this morning, you already know that the wait is over.   Bamboo OnDemand is now roughly on par with Bamboo 4.1.  "Roughly", because there are still a few differences such as not being able to install plugins

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Case Study: Why did SAFMT Go JIRA?

Nonprofit organizations aim to put as much of every dollar possible into their beneficiaries. Implementing JIRA has enabled the Student Assistance Foundation to do better development work with less staff, making developers happy and, more importantly, saving operational costs to benefit students. Ultimately, the fact that JIRA allows SAF to work smarter means more Montana foster care youths get laptops and the supplies they need to pursue their dreams of higher education. About SAFMT Based in

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A couple months ago we released Stash, our new Git repository hosting solution behind the firewall. Stash is a great solution for repository hosting that you can couple to Crucible to perform code reviews on your changesets. This blog post will take you through the simple steps that you can follow to link a standalone Crucible instance to your Stash repositories. I'll assume that you already have your Crucible and Stash instances up & running and stay focused on the actions that you need to

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Coming Soon: the New & Improved Bamboo OnDemand!

It's been quite a while since Bamboo OnDemand was upgraded, and the wait is almost over!  Later this month we'll be bringing the hosted offering to be current with the latest offering for download, Bamboo 4.1.  I sat down with Douglas Butler, product manager for our OnDemand universe, to get the scoop.  SGD: First, tell me briefly what it means to be the product manager for Atlassian OnDemand.  What are some of the projects you work on? DB: There's a ton going on at the moment. At all moments,

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That's right, only 13 days left before four awesome developers win $45,000 in cash prizes. What are you waiting for? If this news comes to you as a surprise, it's not too late. Codegeist is our annual Add-on development contest. If you have an idea, some code skills, and a desire to win you've still got 13 days to submit your add-on. Here are some noteworthy entries so far: Ad hoc Canvasby ComalatechAd hoc Canvas lets you visualize and organize your Confluence content. Get an overview of

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I'm excited! Back when I talked about Satisfying the Customers of BuildEng team I talked about ensuring that we communicate to our customers that we've seen the issues that they have created by Triaging those issues quickly. This is really important, it provides our customers quick feedback on the issue that they have raised so they don't feel that it has fallen into a dark hole that no one is watching. During the triage process we set their expectations on whether the team has committed to

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