On Tuesday, JIRA Product Managers Otto Ruettiner and Eve Stankiewicz hosted a webinar on performance testing. In 30 minutes, they revealed the five secrets of ensuring a highly-performant large scale JIRA instance. Check out the recording and learn everything you need to…
Long-term planning and agile, is it really possible? Even when using an agile approach, there’s still a need to forecast over a long time period. The challenge is to combine both a long-term vision and frequent, continuous delivery along the way. We tend…
Together, JIRA and HipChat eliminate shoulder tapping while ensuring that agile teams can collaborate and communicate in real-time. Team members get the information they want, when and where they want it. Does it get any better than that? Why yes,…
It’s been said that agility comes with awareness. When it comes to IT support, it means acting rapidly when necessary. An agile IT team is flexible. They can anticipate or quickly adapt to changing situations and improvise when faced with…
Getting started with anything new can be tricky, but getting the fundamentals right makes it a lot easier! For JIRA Portfolio, the fundamentals begin with initiatives and themes, so we’ll start with those. If you have any questions about other concepts in JIRA…
We’re excited to bring you JIRA Portfolio 1.9, which makes planning even more realistic. The new capacity visualization makes it easy to see how much work can get done and provides transparency if targeted deadlines are not realistic. Flexible sprint configuration makes sure your portfolio…
We often collect feedback and requests from people outside of our team. If they find a bug, need something done, or have a feature request – somehow and some way, they need to reach us. As an Atlassian, I prefer…
JIRA 6.4 is all about shipping with confidence so your team can enjoy a stress-free release every time they ship code. But before we dive into more JIRA 6.4 goodness (did you hear about the new JIRA HipChat integration?), let’s…
Mounting technical debt is similar to damage caused by termites–left unchecked, both can cause major problems. When technical debt creeps in, development becomes harder, the codebase becomes brittle, and tribal knowledge is required to understand hacks and known workarounds. Technical…
This article is the third in a series on agile ceremonies. Learn how we do sprint planning and sprint retrospectives. In the late afternoon on Fridays you can often hear clapping and cheering throughout the Atlassian office. Here, we work hard, play hard,…