Monthly Archives: January 2008

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 ":http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UGS/Atlassian+User+Group+Sponsorship (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":http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UGS/Atlassian+User+Group+Sponsorship

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The New Guy on Exposing Yourself at Work

As I mentioned last time, everything we do here at Atlassian is on our internal Confluence Wiki, available for everyone at Atlassian to see and comment on. I learned this the very first day, when my boss asked me to put a short bio up on my Profile. "Sure, no problem. Once I'm done, how do I tell people it's there?" I asked. "As soon as you save it, it'll show up in everyone's RSS feed, and also be on the Dashboard page." "Ummm, everyone? Like, everyone in the whole company?" "Yup." "Oh, OK."

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Don’t panic, we are from Poland

Hi, I'm Janusz Gorycki, Manager for Atlassian's newest office. We just started working for Atlassian on January 7th. We are from Gdansk, Poland and we are the staff of Atlassian's European office, located here. There are currently eight of us - seven software developers and their manager--me. We joined Atlassian as a team, having moved from a giant, multinational corporation, where we had been working in the IT department. We're all experienced developers - for example I started my professional

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Agile Project Management with JIRA

A few months ago I blogged about "JIRA":http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira becoming a "platform for other software tools":http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2007/10/jira_plugins_an.html. I had mentioned several applications that had been built on top of JIRA (or maybe you'd prefer to draw a diagram showing them side by side... no matter!). One that I hadn't mentioned was from "VersionOne":http://www.versionone.com/, "the leading project planning and management tool designed specifically for agile

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The New Guy on Climbing the Learning Curve

The bottom of the learning curve is a pretty awful place to be. It feels like everything you know is wrong, like everyone else knows some secret that you haven't figured out yet. It made the start of my second week at Atlassian a lot less fun than the end of the first one. I was grumpy all the time, arriving home at the end of the day feeling like I'd just gone a few rounds with Jens Pulver. But as the week progressed, I noticed my mood improving. I didn't feel quite as stupid on Friday as I

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Confluence connects with Lotus Connections

At "Lotusphere":http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2008/ today, "IBM announced":http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2008/01/lotusphere-20-2.html an integration they developed to connect "Atlassian Confluence with Lotus Connections":http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf. Lotus Connections is a platform for social computing that includes blogs, workflow, and now the world's "most popular enterprise wiki":http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence. We were told that the solution

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