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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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  • Confluence & Domino at NYK: An Enterprise Wiki Adoption Story

    Dennis Howlett recently wrote about how NYK Shipping & Megacarrier is using Confluence and Lotus Domino together to power their intranet. NYK is a global…

  • Jira Labels Plugin 2.0

    We recently completed a major overhaul of the Jira Labels Plugin with a primary focus on stability and performance. New Atlassian Developer, Rich Wallace (p.s.…

  • Why wikis should replace email for collaboration

    The InfoWorld blog points to a recent survey showing that corporate email is becoming more expensive than ever. The survey, conducted by Osterman Research, looked…

  • GreenHopper – Agile Project Management Tool for Jira

    At Agile2007, Atlassian Partner Pyxis Technologies announced the release of GreenHopper 1.2, an agile project management tool for Jira. This plugin is great news for…

  • Two Wiki Case Studies: Pharmaceutical and Law

    A few weeks, I came across this in-depth case study about the use of Confluence as an intranet at Janssen-Cilag, a pharmaceutical company. There was…

  • The Evolution of Publishing

    Linda Skrocki published this awesome video (by Danny, Sun’s new video production and social media intern) on her blog showing the evolution of publishing at…

  • ShipIt VI – One-Click Blog Publishing

    An important lesson in software is to use it for what it does well, and don’t try to force it into areas it isn’t meant…

  • An x-ray of Confluence

    In many ways, Confluence has grown organically, and its dependency tree is no exception. Confluence has well over 100 open source dependencies which we ship…

  • Cutlassian 2007

    This is going to be a long post but I promise it’ll be worth your while. Grab a cup of joe, sit back, relax and…

  • Text trimming with CSS Overflow property…

    Currently (Pre Jira 3.11), linked issues on the view issue page of Jira have their summary trimmed down to 40 characters with trailing ellipsis on…

  • Wiki Adoption Part 4: Email Overload Killed the Businessperson

    This is the fourth in a series on wiki adoption, based on my visits with organizations in the midst of wiki adoption. Part 1, Part…

  • Atlassian is looking for talent

    As some of you may know, we have been trying to fill a number of open positions available throughout the company. In our latest assault,…

  • Office 2.0

    We’re sponsoring the upcoming Office 2.0 event in San Francisco. There will be a few Atlassians at the conference listening to speakers, roaming the exhibit…

  • UNSW Event: Meet the Entrepreneur

    University of New South Wales alum and Atlassian co-founder, Mike Cannon-Brookes will be speaking in Sydney on 4th October. The “Meet the Entrepreneur” event will…

  • AtlassianTube

    Pop some popcorn, pour yourself a drink, and sit back for Atlassian user group presentations. We’ve compiled video from the Boston and Palo Alto events.…