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Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes is a Co-founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, along with his university friend, Scott Farquhar. Outside Atlassian, Mike is a technology investor in the areas of software, fintech, agriculture and energy. Mike has been recognised as a leading entrepreneur by Ernst & Young, the Australian Financial Review, Forbes and the World Economic Forum. A passionate clean energy evangelist, he continues to be an investor in climate change philanthropy and sustainable solutions.

Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment

I’m happy to announce that we are undertaking a thorough, public “20% time” trial at Atlassian. If you’ve ever wondered how...

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Jira Studio: Stream of Development Consciousness

I suspect it comes as no surprise to any developer if I say that “Facebook”:http://www.facebook.com has become extremely popular (not...

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Cutlassian 2007

This is going to be a long post but I promise it’ll be worth your while. Grab a cup of...

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Aeron, Cube or Mac Pro?

We’re known for providing Aeron’s to all employees (not just developers), but someone snapped this photo of Pete, Brendan, Ben...

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ShipIt V – Chatrooms in Confluence

For my ShipIt V project, the first challenge was simply committing myself to a single idea. Eventually (after a few...

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Magic Millions

I know it’s a dubious claim (LOC – bah!), but sometime in the last month our public SVN repository cruised...

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Code names, naming schemes and developer humour

The planning process for Confluence 2.2 reminded me that one of the quirky things I love about all technology companies...

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Reducing JUnit memory usage

A little tip for those writing any form of “JUnit”:http://www.junit.org tests (this includes functional tests with JWebUnit or any derivative...

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Jira 2.1 progress update

Jira 2.1 is nearing completion, we’re hoping to have a beta out early next week. This announcement is just to...

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Chris Winters reviews Jira

Chris Winters has written a “good review of his experiences”:http://www.cwinters.com/News/show/?news_id=928 using Jira on his “weblog”:http://www.cwinters.com/ : _So after submitting an...

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Jira 2 – Release Candidate 1

We have finally stopped adding features to Jira 2 and today we’re shipping the first Release Candidate! It’s an exciting...

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Jira 2 – EAP Release 6

Today we put up Release 6, the next release in the Jira 2 Early Access Program. This release contains bug...

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Jira 2 – EAP Release 4

Today we put up Release 4, the next release in the Jira 2 Early Access Program. This is a very...

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Jira 2 – EAP Release 2

Announcing Release 2, the next release in the Jira 2 Early Access Program. What’s New? Release 2 includes a number...

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Jira 2 Early Access Program and Release 1

Today sees the launch of the Jira 2 Early Access Program. This will give our users access to successive Jira...

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