It’s been a little over a month since we released Confluence Blueprints, ready-made solutions to common business problems. There's the Meeting Notes Blueprint to help you run effective meetings, the File List Blueprint for sharing files with your team, and the Product Requirements Blueprint for collaboratively defining and tracking your product requirements – all in one place. Ever since the initial release we've been heads down making improvements to the Confluence Blueprints experience.

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The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. One of the great things about our customers is that we see great diversity and individuality across our customer base. That's you, our reader! Some customers build software with JIRA, others design clothing, educate students, and some even make cars! One of the great things about JIRA is that it can be customized to really

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Organize with Epics

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks.   Epics, which were introduced in GreenHopper 6.1, are a group of related user stories and usually capture a large body of work or a big project.  For example, the University team currently has an epic for all work related to an upcoming homepage redesign.  We had an epic for all work related to our better, faster,

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On Wednesday, March 27, Atlassian invited 250 customers, friends, fans, and partners from around the Bay Area to attend First Look. Atlassian Co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes took the stage and unveiled Confluence Blueprints – ready-made solutions to common business problems faced by teams of all shapes and sizes. Mike stressed that in today's age, software development goes way beyond development teams. This was echoed by Jim O'Neill, CIO of HubSpot, who shared how his company used Confluence

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Atlassian has been making a whistle-stop tour of North America, Europe and Australia these past few weeks. It’s been a fantastic opportunity to get out from behind our desks and meet the people that make Atlassian thrive. One of the highlights of our tour was teaming up with London Girl Geek Dinners to host a night of tech talk, beer, wine and munchies. Held at London’s Google Campus, the event followed on from our San Francisco Girl Geek event in November. The theme of the evening was

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Workflow Your Blueprints

Introducing Workflows For Your Blueprints Following the succesful release of Ad hoc Canvas Blueprints for Confluence 5.1, Comalatech have now integrated Ad hoc Workflows functionality directly into Confluence Blueprints. Blueprints provide your organization with ideas and structure so you can get started creating Confluence content right away. Ad hoc Workflows helps you to automate reviews, approvals and publishing. Workflow Your Blueprints How do they work together? You can now

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