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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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  • Migration to JPA: experts wanted

    In the Confluence team, we’re investigating an upgrade of our data access layer of Hibernate 2 with Spring 1.1 to a shiny new OpenJPA and…

  • Java User Group (JUG) Sponsorships

    Many companies have sponsorships for their respective user groups. In addition to Atlassian User Group sponsorship, we also support Java User Groups. Over the past…

  • From manual to automatic

    When Crowd first became an Atlassian product it was built using a bunch of ant scripts and lived in CVS, this is quite common for…

  • Calling all social change projects: Present at NetSquared

    If you’re working on an innovative project that uses social media technology to advance social change, then this is for you: In May 2007, 350…

  • ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer: Using patterns to grow wiki adoption

    I just finished my guest blogging stint for ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer with a post about how to encourage wiki adoption in your organization. The…

  • Confluence and Jira Win Jolt Awards

    Great night yesterday at the SD West tradeshow. After a nice introductory presentation from Craig Newmark, awards were handed out at the 17th annual Jolt…

  • T-shirts 2.0

    Say ‘hello’ to the new and improved Atlassian t-shirts. They’re guaranteed to be the best way to turn heads and get attention in your office!…

  • Lessons from Firefox: #6 – Think globally

    This is the sixth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts…

  • Wiki goes to Oxford (Englsh Dictionary that is)

    CNET reports: This word born on the Pacific Island of Hawaii finally got an entry into the latest edition of the online Oxford English Dictionary…

  • Starting an Atlassian User Group

    Last August, one of our partners, IntelliObjects, suggested the idea of holding and sponsoring a user group. Sounded like a good idea to us. We…

  • Lessons from Firefox: #5 – Think hybrid

    This is the fifth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts…

  • Lessons from Firefox: #4 – Nurture renegades

    This is the fourth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts…

  • Confluence adoption in the trenches

    Simon posts a terrific article about driving Confluence adoption in his consulting firm. There are some really good tips in here about the techniques he’s…

  • Confluence Portlets for Oracle Webcenter

    I’ve been doing a bunch of portlet development recently. Most recently, I’ve focused on portlets that can work in an Oracle portal environment.

  • Poll: What’s the Best Polling Software

    Thanks to my post yesterday, I now know what the worst polling software is. Nothing quite like the smell of napalm in the morning… except…