We’ve always been focused on creating tools that make development teams more productive. In 2014, we introduced GitKraken, the legendary cross-platform Git GUI: an intuitive tool to visualize what’s going on under the hood of Git in a way that makes version control less intimidating for individual developers and more scalable for organizations. Next came Glo Boards, a Kanban tool for project managers and developers.

Frequent logouts are a frustrating experience for users, especially on servers with short session lengths configured. In v5.24 and later, you can enable the configuration setting for extending session length with activity to automatically extend sessions and keep users logged in as long as they are active in their Mattermost apps.

New feature release offers tighter integration with Office 365 and Active Directory and an improved end-user search and session experience. Mattermost Release v5.24 is generally available today. The new feature release offers tighter integration with enterprise tools such as Office 365 and Active Directory and an improved end-user experience for search and session management.

When you work in IT, there’s never a shortage of things to do. For folks who like to be busy, IT is a great place to be. But the workload can quickly become overwhelming, and it may often feel like you and your team are putting out fires and not productively working on other tasks that move the needle for your team or company. The trick is managing your team’s time effectively so the excessive pile of work gets done. These four time management strategies can help. Let’s get started.

Many Mattermost DevOps teams work in “Microsoft Shops”—organizations that use Office 365 apps with the Microsoft 365 business plan—and want to tightly integrate with Microsoft tools to more easily collaborate with the rest of the company. Mattermost E20 was architected from the ground up to be highly flexible. As such, integrating with other platforms including Microsoft is easy. Here’s how.

Communication during incidents is critical. With the rise of remote work, war rooms are no longer the central hub for all incident communication. Instead, we’re adapting to these new challenges and embracing video conferencing and messaging software in order to stay in tight lock-step with our teammates and collaborators. With this in mind, we are excited to announce that Blameless is adding a new way for you to communicate even faster and more effectively.

Recently, Atlassian announced 12 new features to help improve collaboration across software teams. These new capabilities and some help from Sentry & friends aim to help developers spend more time building the products and services their customers want. Here’s a more detailed look at how Sentry integrates with Atlassian products and leverages Bitbucket’s new Code Insights feature.

Usually, organizations use an internal network to prevent unauthorized people from connecting to their private network. By using their own network infrastructure and connectivity, they can maintain their desirable level of security for their data. But it would be convenient for users to connect to that private network while they are away from the office through their own internet connection.

Jira has long been a popular issue tracking tool for development teams, but its scope has broadened quite a bit over the years, and it has bloomed into a more well-rounded project management tool as well. It’s used widely by agile teams to plan, track, and release software, along with numerous other cloud (and traditional self-managed) productivity tools.