How to Manage a Product Backlog with Ease

Product owners have the challenging task of ingesting feedback from multiple sources, organizing it into a meaningful format, and communicating out to the product teams.  Feedback is a critical part of the product life cycle.  We can't iterate to make our products better without it, as we talked about in our three-part series on collecting feedback a few weeks ago. But what do we do when we get too much feedback?  Backlogs quickly become unmanageable.  As product owners if we become less adept

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Atlassian at GOTO Chicago

GOTO Chicago 2013 It was great to be one of the sponsors at the GOTO Chicago 2013 conference from Tuesday April, 23 - Wednesday, April 24th  It was awesome meeting a number of JIRA, Confluence, and Dev Tools customers  at the conference.  Herzum Consulting, one of our experts joined us at the booth as well.  Atlassian Experts help deliver an incredible experience with our products. If you need a plugin built, a deployment tuned, help with setup and configuration, or coaching on going agile,

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Coming soon: Bamboo 5 Early Access Program!

We grown-ups don't anticipate Christmas morning like we used to. (Or do we...?) But that doesn't mean we don't get excited about new toys! You may have heard about the deployment awesomeness we're baking into Bamboo 5 at one of our Atlassian RoadTrip stops, at an AUG, or by word of mouth*. If so, you're probably keen to kick the tires on this thing. Well friends, Christmas is coming early this year. In early May we'll kick off the Bamboo 5 Early Access Program (ie, a beta). Milestone builds will

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Customize Confluence Blueprints to Fit Your Team’s Business Process

It’s been nearly a month since we released Confluence Blueprints, ready-made best practices to common business problems. We already showed you how to run effective meetings and share files using two of the blueprints available in Confluence, now let's take a look at how to customize the various blueprints to match your teams' business processes. Customizing Blueprints' Page Templates Confluence comes budled with three different blueprints - Meeting Notes, File Lists, and Product Requirements.

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6 steps to prepare for JIRA 6!

JIRA 6 is coming! Sys admins: this one is for you! As many of you know we at Atlassian are really excited about JIRA 6. To help prepare your organization for the update, you can install the new JIRA on a test system to ensure all your plugins and integrations continue to run smoothy. If anything doesn't work as it should you can send us feedback to make the final release even better. Also, you'll be able to share what's coming with the rest of your organization Once you have your test system

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Git Flow Comes to Java

As a Java developer, I'm always trying to find ways to streamline all the mundane tasks that come along with development but aren't necessarily part of the actual code I'm trying to write. Managing source control and performing releases are definitely on that list. I use Git as my DVCS of choice, and while it certainly makes managing source changes a bit more, well, manageable, it can also feel like the "wild wild west" at times with random branches and commits flying around. Enter Git Flow.

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