Category Archives: JIRA

LaunchNotes raises a $1.8M seed round to help companies communicate their software updates

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LaunchNotes, a startup founded by the team behind Statuspage (which Atlassian later acquired) and the former head of marketing for Jira, today announced that it has raised a $1.8 million seed round co-led by Cowboy Ventures and Bull City Ventures. In addition, Tim Chen (general partner, Essence Ventures), Eric Wittman (chief growth officer, JLL Technologies), […] Continue reading LaunchNotes raises a $1.8M seed round to help companies communicate their software updates→

A pandemic and recession won’t stop Atlassian’s SaaS push

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No company is completely insulated from the macroeconomic fallout of COVID-19, but we are seeing some companies fare better than others, especially those providing ways to collaborate online. Count Atlassian in that camp, as it provides a suite of tools focused on working smarter in a digital context. At a time when many employees are […] Continue reading A pandemic and recession won’t stop Atlassian’s SaaS push→

Slack and Atlassian deepen their partnership with deeper integrations

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A lot of “partnerships” between tech companies don’t get very far beyond a press release and maybe some half-hearted co-selling attempts. When Atlassian sold its chat services to Slack in 2018, the two companies said they would form a new partnership and with Atlassian leaving the chat space, a lot of people were skeptical about […] Continue reading Slack and Atlassian deepen their partnership with deeper integrations→

Atlassian acquires asset management company Mindville

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Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Mindville, Jira-centric enterprise asset management firm based in Sweden. Mindville’s over 1,7000 customers include the likes of NASA, Spotify and Samsung. With this acquisition, Atlassian is getting into a new market, too, by adding asset management tools to its lineup of services. The company’s flagship product is Mindville […] Continue reading Atlassian acquires asset management company Mindville→

Smart Teams Use Atlassian and Sontaype to Plan Development Work

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Jira software from Atlassian is one of the most widely used software in the world, helping agile development teams plan projects and manage stories, epics, tasks, tickets, workflows and backlogs.
Smart developers use Sonatype’s Nexus Platform to a… Continue reading Smart Teams Use Atlassian and Sontaype to Plan Development Work→

Atlassian launches new DevOps features

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Atlassian today launched a slew of DevOps-centric updates to a variety of its services, ranging from Bitbucket Cloud and Pipelines to Jira and others. While it’s quite a grabbag of announcements, the overall idea behind them is to make it easier for teams to collaborate across functions as companies adopt DevOps as their development practice […] Continue reading Atlassian launches new DevOps features→

Stack Overflow expands its Teams service with new integrations

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Most developers think of Stack Overflow as a question and answer site for their programming questions. But over the last few years, the company has also built a successful business in its Stack Overflow for Teams product, which essentially offers companies a private version of its Q&A product. Indeed, the Teams product now brings in […] Continue reading Stack Overflow expands its Teams service with new integrations→

Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more

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Software will eat the world, as the saying goes, but in doing so, some developers are likely to get a little indigestion. That is to say, building products requires working with disparate and distributed teams, and while developers may have an ever-growing array of algorithms, APIs and technology at their disposal to do this, ironically […] Continue reading Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more→

Atlassian expands Jira Service Desk beyond IT teams

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Atlassian today announced a set of new templates and workflows for Jira Service Desk that were purpose-built for HR, legal and facilities teams. Service Desk started six years ago as a version of Jira that was mostly meant for IT departments. Atlassian, however, found that other teams inside the companies that adopted it started to […] Continue reading Atlassian expands Jira Service Desk beyond IT teams→