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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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  • O Canada! O Wiki!

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    We were reading through some Tangosol documentation recently (which is conveniently built using Confluence) and we saw a handy little trick on this page. They…

  • Jira 3.6 Released

    Jira 3.6, now available to download, includes over 50 new features, improvements, and bug fixes. One of the new features is the ability to assign…

  • Jeremy’s Little Corner of the Web

    Using Confluence as a collaborative application for writing was Jeremey’s blog about, well, using Confluence for writing a paper with his mates. An alternative title…

  • Fun WebWork tricks

    If you’re ever wondering what a path like ‘.’, ‘..’, ‘../..’ resolve to in WebWork, just add this handy little snippet to your template: <webwork:property…

  • An Insight Into the Confluence Development Process

    We recently upgraded the Atlassian intranet to a pre-release build of Confluence 2.2. In the spirit of eating our own dogfood, we turned on the…

  • And the Codegeist Winners Are…

    We’re excited to finally be able to announce the winners of Atlassian’s first Codegeist Plugin Competition. In Codegeist, contestants had eight weeks to develop, document…

  • Codegeist Plugin Competition Results

    Thank you all for your patience, but I’m excited to finally be able to announce the winners of Atlassian’s first Codegeist Plugin Competition. In Codegeist,…

  • IssueCreator

    Sometimes, on those really dark (or truly inspired) days of strongly-caffeinated development, one needs a way to rapidly create a large number of new Jira…

  • Over Eleven Hundred Customers Select Confluence

    Over 1,100 commercial and academic customers in more than 45 countries have selected its enterprise wiki software, Confluence. This significant milestone positions Confluence as the…

  • Confluence Selected as Editor’s Choice at Network Computing

    We were thrilled to see that Confluence was Network Computing’s pick for best commercial wiki. “Our Editor’s Choice, Atlassian Software Systems’ Confluence 2.1.2, has all…