How to Share Files with Your Team Using Confluence

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian's tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. It's been almost a month since we released Confluence Blueprints, ready-made best practices to common business problems. The response has been overwhelmingly positive as users everywhere discover the power of Confluence for solving their everyday problems. One of the most frustrating of these problems is

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Guest Blog: Monitoring Your Teams Estimation Skills

Yves Riel acts as a Scrum Coach to help teams learn the Scrum methodology. Yves has actively been using JIRA and GreenHopper since 2009. He built Rekall for JIRA to help agile teams improve their estimates. Every year, I try to make an appointment with my doctor for an annual check-up. Invariably, I walk out of his office with a blood tests form in my hand. These tests are what helps my doctor notice illnesses like high cholesterol or diabetes. About two years ago, I began to suspect my agile team

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View Visio Diagrams Free in Confluence with Lucidchart

This is a guest blog from Ryan Butters, VP of Sales and Marketing for Lucidchart, a vendor in the Atlassian Marketplace and makes of Lucidchart for Confluence. Lucidchart is proud to announce a free Visio Viewer plugin for Confluence. The viewing functionality is bundled with our diagramming application, but you won’t need to pay a cent in order to use and enjoy the Visio Viewer. Now your entire organization can view Microsoft Visio files in a cloud-based, easy-to-use, completely free format.

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How to Run Effective Meetings with Confluence

How many times have you left a meeting thinking it was a waste of time? Have you ever felt 'meeting dread' because you know that the next hour is time better spent actually getting work done? The fact is most of the meetings we attend during the day don't accomplishing anything. Meetings with no agenda, meetings full of non sequiturs, or meetings with no actionable deliverables to follow up on afterwards are far too common in the work place. Your team might even be suffering from Reckless Meeting

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Work Smarter, Not Harder: Productivity in the Workplace

This is a variation of an article I wrote for eclipse MAGAZIN that was published in their March issue. Many thanks to Ryan Anderson for his contributions. Everyone struggles to get work done these days as the amount of communication and information available continue to increase at warp speed. The old adage, ‘Work smarter, not harder’ has become a joke with many employees now forced to work after hours, through lunch, and even on the weekends just to keep up. Work has become a lifestyle whether

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Meet the Stash Realtime Editor Add-on

Several weeks ago, I found myself refactoring some code a colleague of mine in Boulder wrote (I'm in San Francisco). Because I'm impatient, I wanted him to review my changes without going through the normal pomp and circumstance of what's now commonly referred to as a pull request or code review. I found myself wishing that I could just share my editor tab over the internet so that he could see what I was working on in real-time. Sure, I could have done one of the following: Invite him to a screen

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