SGD Atlassian Team

Greetings, fellow teamwork fans! I'm about to publish an article on Work Life (aka, atlassian.com/blog) about some stand-out coaches from movies and TV, and the qualities that made them great leaders. Should be a fun piece to read. Thing is, the list of coaches I came up with is very US-biased and nearly all men. Surely,…

Greetings Playbook fans! Trying a Health Monitor or play for the first time can feel daunting. We get it. That's why there are downloadable templates to go with the Health Monitors as well as select plays. Not only do templates make it dead-simple to capture the output of a play, they help you visualize what kind of…

Greetings! Sarah from the Team Playbook team here... As a team, we've been talking a lot lately about how to make meetings more inclusive, and in so doing, get more value out of them. Introverts, remote workers, women, and people of color often struggle to be heard in meetings. Why? Because of unconscious biases we all…

Let’s face it: most of us have too many meetings on our calendars. And few things are a bigger waste of time than recurring meetings that no longer provide any value to attendees (or the business). In fact, the average worker feels a full 50% of their meetings are wasted time! No wonder we spend meetings daydreaming, doing…

My daughter (age 10) and I recently started making macarons together. It started with a class taught by a professional pastry chef. Now we've graduated to making them ourselves at home! Everything you've heard about macarons is true. They look simple enough when they're finished, but they are finicky. We learned the French…

Shorter workweeks, and 4-day weeks in particular, are quite the hot topic lately! There's the much-publicized trial in Iceland, a push from political parties in Scotland and Spain, and of course, a few companies are testing the waters on their own. (Atlassian is not one of them, but we're finding other ways to give people…

Picture this. You and your team are at the end of (or, let's face it: in the middle of) a long and tumultuous planning cycle. You've assessed the relative impact of all the work you could take on, made some tough choices, and emerged with a prioritized set of projects you will take on. You're exhausted, but filled with…

Fun fact: according to the National Center for Biotechnology Research, 25% of us abandon our resolutions by January 7th. Just seven measly days into the year?! Uff-da. If you're still holding onto your resolutions, then good on ya. (I resolved to cut out late-night snacking and swear less, both of which are going pretty…

To anyone who doubts that Atlassians are a little too obsessed with collaboration, and tools related thereto, let me describe a recent discussion we had (which took place on our internal Confluence, of course). It was lamented that, when you share a page and include a note, those thoughts are read by one person, then…

Most companies that have been around for a while are poorly adapted for the knowledge economy, and even less so for today's "creative economy", where your ability to add value is limited only by your imagination. Perhaps that's why design-led companies are significantly outperforming their peers, according to researchers…

Folks, I’ll be honest. My Friday-workday playlist has become a bit stale. What do YOU listen to at work on Fridays? Feed me your suggestions! I might even blog about it… 😉

My wine system, uncorked Nobody will ever accuse me of being a wine snob, what with my unsophisticated palate and refusal to spend over $30. But I know what I like, and when I find something I like, I like to grab a few bottles to have on hand. This has led me to build up a modest little collection over the past few years.…

Greetings, Team Playbook fans! We've heard from many of you who want to champion the Health Monitor in your organization, but aren't sure how to introduce it to your team. First, thank you for that feedback. Second, we've cooked up a little something we hope will help. We built a slide deck you can use to: * Get grounded…

If you're like us, you've got big plans for 2018 – and now is the time to make sure you're set up to nail them. For those of you leading major projects this year, check out the project kick-off play. Not that project kick-offs are anything new... it's just that, too often, the hour is spent listening to information you…

Interested in using Bamboo's pre-build merging feature, but wondering what happens if there are merge conflicts.

Our team uses the "git-flow" pattern for branching, but our build strategy for master is different from our build strategy for dev branches. How do you handle this with Bamboo?

Is it possible to poll a bitbucket repo, and only build if theres a new tag?