Atlassian develops really useful tools for Agile and remote teams. These are the ones you should definitely try.
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Do you remember the filing cabinets of yesteryear? With its huge drawers and hundreds of folders, often requiring entire office warehouses to accommodate them. Only those in charge of filing the documents knew how to find anything, so you had to wait for those people to find what you needed
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When talking about Jira, people generally think of its use in the software development and IT industry. Even though the Work Management version is intended to be used by teams from HR, marketing, finance, operations, legal, design, and sales, most of the collective imagination doesn't seem to catch
Agile
With the growing trend of agile frameworks adoption among companies, one topic that draws more attention from beginners is how to properly conduct an Agile Retrospective. These sessions are a really effective way for teams to develop a continuous improvement approach that enables them to build better products and services.
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A while ago, Atlassian published a blog post under the title 4 Confluence add-ons to take your team’s collaboration to the next level.. We consider it to be helpful advice, specially for those teams who crave for more unified and better aligned workflows among teams. Confluence may be really
Agile Retrospectives
Migrating your Jira deployment is a big deal. If your approach is not insightful enough, things can turn really sluggish. You can think of it as getting caught in quicksand: The more you struggle, the more you sink. That is why people in those types of emergencies require aid from
Remote Work
The mainstream adoption of hybrid work models has transformed the workplace in such a radical fashion that we are still getting used to it. Many organizations have replaced in-place meetings and working arm to arm with fellow colleagues with video conferences and asynchronous communications. It has not been easy, but
Agile Retrospectives
The team at Catapult Labs loves to run Retrospective sessions. We consider these ceremonies to be a cornerstone of the continuous improvement principle of Agile and always find them helpful to enhance processes and foresee potential blockers based on past sprints or iterations. We are not the only team that
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Hybrid work came to stay. When rightfully executed, it can lead to year-on-year productivity improvement rates of even 13%, as this Great Place to Work two-year study states. A set-up that meets both in-person and remote facilities needs should allow your team to keep an Agile communication flow, especially during
Agile Retrospectives
The key point of doing Sprint Retrospectives is helping your team to keep nourishing a continuous improvement spirit in a concrete and fast manner to effectively implement its outcomes. Retrospectives purpose, in a high-level sense, is to “plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness”, as stated on Scrum.org, and
Productivity
Keeping your team's work fully transparent for every member is crucial. This will help you stay away from a lot of inefficiencies in your team that come from a team member not knowing the status of another's work. Transparency helps to avoid these work bottlenecks and
Agile
Last year Atlassian announced the acquisition of all of the Stride and Hip-Chat intellectual property by Slack. A decision that definitely caught us, SoftwareDevTools, and other Developers of Stride apps by surprise. However, at that time, we already had a Slack version of that very same bot we developed for
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I'm Juventino Romero, full stack Node.js developer at Nearsoft's SoftwareDevTools team. We've recently attended the Pitney Bowes' Small and Medium Business Challenge, a product and application development hackathon for small and medium business (SMBs) focused applications and solutions held at San José,
Software Development
It’s official! From June 11th to June 15th, the SoftwareDevTools team will be in Hipster capital of the world: Portland, OR. We are going to be one of a selective group of Atlassian’s Marketplace vendors taking part of Atlassian’s App week 2018. We are super excited because
Bots
Since the very beginning of SoftwareDevTools, we have been obsessed with the way remote and onsite teams collaborate. When we first launched PlanningWith.Cards as a Hangouts plugin we knew that chat platforms would be the cutting edge for high-performance teams and this thesis has not let us down. We
Agile
One of the main goals of Agile methodologies is continuous improvement. The most important event for this is Agile Retrospectives. A very important part of Agile Methodologies is keeping your users close and getting feedback regularly. So when we launched our Agile Retrospectives for Confluence tool (UPDATE: We now have
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A talk by Katrina Morales. Product Marketing Manager. Atlassian Ecosystem. One of the talks that the SoftwareDevTools team was looking forward during Atlassian’s Connect Week, was Katrina’s talk about Marketing your add-on. The talk was very informative, and the audience was well engaged as we were all teams