Win at quarterly planning by avoiding these OKR mistakes
OKRs are a great tool for quarterly planning. But let's face it: they can trip you up at first. Set yourself up for success with these 8 tips.
Sarah Goff-Dupont
Volunteer time off: giving employees a perk that gives back
Volunteer time off (VTO) is the hottest trend in employee perks. But does paying your employees to volunteer in their community really pay off?
5 project prioritization lessons from the pros
Prioritizing project work with your team can be an exercise in frustration. (Been there!) Here's how to avoid 5 common mistakes.
Can the future of tech include Autism Spectrum Disorder?
"Don't worry. You can always get a job as a programmer where you won't have to talk to anybody." –conventional wisdom
13 books that disrupt stereotypes and build emotional intelligence
There are so many experiences that can be understood through literature. When we access those stories, we push back on ignorance and build the emotional intelligence that is so important for personal and professional...
Boiling the ocean with Portfolio for Jira: adventures in capacity planning
[Captain’s log August 1, 2117 – somewhere off the Gold Coast. What follows is an account of how I created...
DevOps vs. compliance: a guide to having it all
The miasma of compliance documentation alone is enough to drain a person's soul. Thank goodness for DevOps.
A message to our RSS subscribers
Greetings, readers! As part of overhauling the Atlassian Blog, we’ve moved our RSS feeds away from Feedburner – an open...
How to manage projects like an actual project manager
So. You have to manage a project, and you’re not a project manager by trade. I’ve been there. It’s pretty...
What I want other parents to know about women in tech
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Moving down the corporate ladder
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Atlassian blog update
Dear Readers, Blog team here, with a quick update on how we are managing the Atlassian blog. Starting Friday, September...
Inside Atlassian: tracking blog categories and performance with Jira custom fields
I can hold my own with math and numbers, but I don’t love them. I have to admit though, I’m starting...
Super-powered continuous delivery with Git
Developing as a team can be messy. You’re trying to understand which pieces of code everyone is working on, trying to make sure changes don’t conflict, trying to find defects before your customers do,...
Inside Atlassian: Jira workflows for tracking blog projects
Chances are, your marketing team manages blog projects on spreadsheets. You probably track who is working on it, what state it's in, when it's going to be published, what it's about, how it fits...