This is a guest post written by Kat Boogard, a writer for Toggl who covers a little bit of everything — but places most of her focus on career, communication, and self-development topics. So, you want to be an amazing…
Collecting and responding to user feedback is what makes agile software development lean. This relationship creates a constant need to release software early and develop with users in mind. As a result, user feedback is crucial to understanding how to…
Marketers are constantly seeking ways to be faster and more nimble, especially as social media, content, and digital marketing technology have changed the way they’ve traditionally gone to market. The days of executing static campaigns planned months in advance are gone.…
If your company is like ours, you’ve implemented agile development, partly because your teams crave the freedom and flexibility to work the way they want. But you’ve probably noticed that the larger your company grows, the harder it is to keep track of…
What do high-performing IT orgs have in common? They’re more agile: They are deploying 30x more frequently and with 200x shorter lead times than their peers. They’re more reliable: They have 60x fewer failures and recover 168x faster. They’re #winning:…
This is a guest post from John Custy– President of JPC Group and a 35-year veteran of the IT industry. When asked what problem DevOps aims to solve, Service Operations Lead, Patrick Hill, responded, “It’s the problem where no one’s…
We’ve written quite a bit about the conundrum of writing requirements in an agile environement. The most important takeaway is: the best way to kick-off your software projects is to build a shared understanding amongst your team. At Atlassian we find…
Stealthy and unavoidable, scope creep hovers over every software development project. Like any other agile practice, no two teams manage scope creep the same and teams at Atlassian are no exception. So we decided to go straight to the horse’s mouth…
With over 500k agile projects in JIRA (among just Cloud customers – wow!), we realized we’re sitting on a ton of data that sheds light on how agile teams function. We then bet, that with some anonymized data mining, we…
In a previous JIRA insiders, I showed you how the JIRA Portfolio team combines long-term planning and agile execution using JIRA Portfolio. I also mentioned that “techniques for coming up with a high-level product strategy could fill a separate blog…