Recently, I sat down with Matt Doar, Chief Toolsmith at ServiceRocket and author of the O'Reilly book, Practical JIRA Administration: Using JIRA Effectively Beyond the Documentation. Not only is the book updated to reflect changes to JIRA, but entirely new topics have been added, thanks to contributions from Mikey Schott.

Atlassian Summit 2015 kicked off Tuesday, November 2 with a Fireside chat with Atlassian co-founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes and Atlassian President Jay Simons. Much of the conversation focused on culture, which is a key element of Atlassian's success.

The Google Apps Connector manages lower level functionality so users can focus on solving business challenges. Paired with Confluence and the Scaffolding/Reporting tools, the Google Apps Connector allows users to build bespoke Contact Management Systems (CMS) or even CRMs.

One of the best ways an executive team can communicate to everyone in the company is by blogging. And blogging regularly. But how does an executive know that blogging efforts are having the intended effect?

One of ServiceRocket's global enterprise customers wanted to demonstrate to the business that Atlassian's JIRA could be used to address a wide range of needs not just for development teams but for broader business solutions.

Niraj Dawar, author of "Tilt", sat down with our Peter Marquez to discuss how companies benefit when vendors help them innovate and reduce after-purchase risks and costs.