Tag Archives: Atlassian

Atlassian Summit 2014 Highlights & Confluence Intranet Solutions – Sherif Mansour & Martin Seibert

As a follow up on last year’s surprise interview, Sherif Mansour, Atlassian Confluence product manager, talks with Martin Seibert about his Summit experience. Martin liked the road map, that Atlassian gave, announcing live editing and in line editing in Confluence in a future release. He also enjoys the integration of JIRA, Bamboo, and Stash with Confluence.

Introducing Atlassian’s JIRA: Agile project management with JIRA

JIRA helps you collaborate more efficiently with your co-workers and spend less time in following up tasks. This user friendly tool, among many other helpful features, lets you enter descriptions of tasks that need to be done, assign them to other employees and set deadlines. It allows you to create issues (tasks) for helpdesk tickets, project tasks, change requests or software bugs.

36 use cases for an enterprise microblog (1-12)

An internal microblog can become a useful channel of communication within an enterprise. Similar to having lunch or coffee together, or chatting in the hallway, employees exchange information, news, ideas or project details in a microblog. Sometimes the posts are time sensitive and important, sometimes they are just about exchanging ideas with colleagues and getting their input. Enterprises can benefit from that. What are specific use cases, and how can the internal tweeting gain strength? We have collected 36 use cases. Here are the first dozen.

//SEIBERT/MEDIA is official Atlassian Training Partner

Atlassian has launched a new training program, that will also include interactive courses with certifications. Approximately a dozen Atlassian Expert partners were chosen to support the program. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is proud to be one of them. In this interview, Sherry Quinn (Training Director at Atlassian) explains the new training concept, what customers can expect and why //SEIBERT/MEDIA is a great partner for Atlassian trainings.

JIRA 6.3: Easy Development

It is now possible for software teams to implement development best practices and world-class project tracking at the same time without hassle. JIRA 6.3 is now more integrated with Stash and Crucible. The moment the development of an issue is complete, JIRA automatically updates the issues. In addition, JIRA Agile now allows the entire team an end to end view of the project through enhanced reporting decisions.

Confluence – Update pages to reduce redundancies

Working with Confluence, you notice how fast the content of your wiki is constantly expanding. Eventually some content needs to be updated due to new information or developments. The question that might arise: Shall I create a new page with new content or rather update the existing page? In this video, Martin Seibert from //SEIBERT/MEDIA explains the advantages of updating a page rather than creating a new one. This approach might involve a bit of work and time but reduces redundancies and helps communicating updates to the existing followers of the old content.

Tutorial: How to create a Jira issue

Being introduced to JIRA can be intimidating and overwhelming. JIRA is a very powerful and complex task management and bug tracking system. However, the key functions are very simple and user friendly. Starting to work with JIRA issues is the best way to become familiar with this tool. In the following tutorial, Martin Seibert from //SEIBERT/MEDIA shows how create issues in JIRA and gives an overview of the configuration options.

Jira Workflows: Convert tasks into systematic and transparent procedures

If measures for quality assurance and both internal and customer projects don’t run ideally and thus inefficiently, it is often due to a lack of established and binding workflows in task management. This article focuses on the use of JIRA and shows how JIRA can be used to convert all kinds of tasks into systematic and transparent procedures with the help of prototypical workflows. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is happy to provide you a JIRA test instance free of charge and without commitment, so you can learn about the following workflows and the diverse functions of JIRA.

Real integration: The interaction of JIRA, Stash and Bamboo

During the most recent meeting of the Atlassian Enterprise Clubs by //SEIBERT/MEDIA, Jens Schumacher, the Group Product Manager of Atlassian Dev-Tools in Sydney, was our guest for a couple of days. In an interview, he directly demonstrates the close links between JIRA, Stash and Bamboo – from issues over branches, pull-requests and tests until the successful, quality assured shipment of a change in the main codebase.