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Derek Huether

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Derek Huether is Lead Principal Solutions Engineer for Atlassian’s Enterprise Strategy and Planning group. He shapes how Atlassian positions its solutions within evolving market trends. He leads high-impact strategy workshops, executive briefings, and advisory sessions with key accounts to shape their long-term technology vision. He uses his deep understanding of customer challenges and market trends to guide the product and sales teams.

Prior to Atlassian, Derek helped transform how people work at companies like Walmart, GEICO, and Capital One and federal agencies like the National Archives and the National Institutes of Health.

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  • (Case Study) Distributed Development at John Muir Health with Jira Studio

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  • Brand and Customise Your Enterprise Wiki with Zen Foundation

    This is a guest post by Darryl Duke of Stepstone Technologies, an Atlassian Partner that creates a Confluence plugin called Zen Foundation that will completely…

  • Technical Writing in a Wiki: From draft to published document

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  • Summit 2010 Highlights – DVCS in the Enterprise

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  • Bugbox puts Jira in your pocket

    This guest post was written by Bugbox. Bugbox LLC specializes in creating mobile apps for smartphones, including iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. Their latest app is Bugbox…

  • Watch a live demo of the new features in Confluence 3.4

    It’s been a couple of weeks since we released Confluence 3.4, a new version of our enterprise wiki packed full of new features to provide…

  • Do you have the Ultimate Wallboard?

    We’re on the lookout for the most impressive information radiator.  If you have a wallboard, status board, story wall or any other form of extreme…

  • (Case Study) – Taming the Jira 4.2 bug dragon!

    The Jira team uses a number of wallboards and information radiators to keep the entire team up to date about the current status of the…

  • Jira 4.2 & GreenHopper 5.3 available today – faster issue tracking

    What do Atlassian’s issue tracker, the current week of the year and the answer to life, the universe and everything have in common? Let me…

  • Access Your Dropbox Account in Confluence

    I’m a huge fan of Dropbox, in fact I could not get through a day of work without it. It’s one of those tools I…

  • Crucible Starter licenses now available; and a new milestone reached

    Atlassian’s Starter licenses have been incredibly popular. These $10 versions of our tools have resonated far and wide. Originally conceived as an intro version of…

  • Technical Writing in a Wiki: Technical Communicators Explain How & Why

    This is the first of a series of posts from Atlassian’s Technical Writing Team focusing on using a wiki for technical writing. In this post,…

  • Fisheye & Crucible 2.4 – better DVCS support, improved performance & Crucible for $10

    Branch and tag browsing, a faster UI and a Crucible Starter license for $10are just some of the new features in Fisheye 2.4 and Crucible…

  • Jira Wallboards 1.4 – Instant information radiator

    I’m happy to announce the Jira Wallboards Plugin 1.4 has been released.  This is a release includes several minor improvements, stability and bug fixes.  We…

  • AtlasCamp 2010 Summary: Celebrating Our Developer Ecosystem

    The sun was shining on Half Moon Bay, big waves crashing off the coast, the fog horn sounding its beat in the morning dew. Our…