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John Rotenstein

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Atlassian’s 20% Time: A Year in Review

One year ago, Atlassian announced it’s 20% Time Experiment. Originally a 6-month trial, we’ve actually let it go for 12 months before reviewing results and determining its fate. In line with Atlassian’s innate openness, I’m happy to share our findings. Atlassian’s 20% Results At-a-glance 1 Year 48 Projects* (25 In Progress, 16 Incorporated into products**, […]

A video about Atlassian’s Core Values

While seeking inspiration for something to do for our regular ShipIt Days (especially since I’m not a developer), I had the idea of making a Common Craft-like video about life at Atlassian. Alas, that turned out to be too hard (boy, those Common Craft folks are great!), so instead I put together a video about […]

Atlassian’s 20% Time: A Year in Review

One year ago, Atlassian announced it’s 20% Time Experiment. Originally a 6-month trial, we’ve actually let it go for 12 months before reviewing results and determining its fate. In line with Atlassian’s innate openness, I’m happy to share our findings. Atlassian’s 20% Results At-a-glance 1 Year 48 Projects* (25 In Progress, 16 Incorporated into products**, […]

Atlassian’s 20% Time now out of Beta

In my previous blog about 20% Time, I gave a summary of Atlassian’s “20% Experiment” but left readers hanging as to the future of 20% Time at Atlassian. Well, I’m glad to end that suspense now and officially announce that Atlassian is continuing with 20% Time, rather than keeping it under the label of being […]

A World full of Atlassians

When we implemented an internal Staff Directory using MIT’s Exhibit technology, we thought it would be fun to also track where staff were born. Now, whenever somebody joins the company, they also appear on an online map: Our headquarters is in Sydney, Australia, so we have lots of people from Down Under. We have an […]