How Building an IDE Extension Changed the Way We Ship Code

When our team set out on the adventure of building the Atlassian for VS Code extension, our mission was simple: create an MVP to test if using Bitbucket Cloud and Jira Software Cloud features inside of VS Code would make a better developer experience.

To begin, we did what we all knew: scheduled planning meetings, had daily stand-ups, set up a Slack channel for all of the discussion that happens between meetings, tried to guess at release dates, and scheduled retros to discuss what went wrong and what went well.