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Ben Ostrowski

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Dr. Ben Ostrowski is a Senior Researcher on Atlassian’s Team Anywhere, where he studies teamwork in the age of AI and distributed work, and develops new evidence-based work practices to empower teams and organizations to thrive. He holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Carnegie Mellon University.

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  • Jason Fried: If you want success, follow the chefs

    Jason Fried of 37signals spoke last Friday at SXSW Interactive about the lessons he’s learned from building the successful, Chicago-based software company. All 14 lessons…

  • Announcing Codegeist III: Be The Code You Seek

    Coders, start your development engines! It’s time for Codegeist III, the 2008 edition of the Atlassian plugin competition. Once again, the contest is bigger and…

  • A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities

    Just found this excellent paper by Laurence Parry from the 2006 Wikimania conference. It focuses on starting and building a community wiki, and a lot…

  • 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 Google’s famed 20% time works…

  • Conferences That Don't Suck and You

    Atlassian and NFJS activate a fluff-free titillating partnership of unsuck for developers developers developers developers.

  • Wikis at the White House

    In a recent Washington Post article, Stephen Barr explores how the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is using a wiki to track…

  • Crowd 1.3 Solves Your Identity Crisis

    The Atlassian Crowd team is delighted to present Crowd 1.3. This release includes innovative solutions for LDAP group administration, cross-directory user imports and a streamlined…

  • Maven in our development process. Part 4. Remaining issues

    So far we have covered all the work we have done setting up Maven: The requirements for our Maven process. The infrastructure we have set…

  • Atlassian Wins Four Jolt Awards!

    We’re happy to announce that Atlassian took home a whopping four Jolt awards on March 5th at SD West with Fisheye and Clover receiving the…

  • Three’s a Crowd – securing a Grails application with Acegi and Crowd

    One of the cool things about working for Internal Systems is the opportunity to work on new systems. My most recent project is the development…

  • Vote for Your Favorite Atlassian T-Shirt Design!

    We’d like to thank everyone for submitting their designs for the next great Atlassian t-shirt! We received over 80 entries, and from those, have chosen…

  • Four new capabilities for the Atlassian Plugin Repository

    We’ve recently added four new features to the Atlassian Plugin Repository that plugin developers should want to know about: Download Tracking For the last few…

  • A New Milestone — 10,000 Customers and Counting!

    Atlassian now has over 10,000 customers! Not only is this a pretty cool milestone to pass, but it happened on February 16th, almost to the…

  • Communicating Across Products and Oceans

    Dipping into the Stream You may already know about the Activity Stream feature that will be part of Jira Studio. The idea is that all…

  • Psychedellic Bugs Tracked by Jira

    This has got to be the most unique gift I’ve gotten from someone I worked with… maybe the most unique gift ever?! Kathy G. was…