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Kim Seeling Smith

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Kim Seeling Smith is the CEO of Ignite Global and a leading ‘Now of Work’ Expert (the Future of Work arrived Friday the 13th of March, 2020 when Covid-19 thrust into our new reality more quickly than anyone had predicted). She is a regular commentator for The Today Show, the AFR, the Sydney Morning Herald, Forbes and CNBC Online. Kim is the author of Mind Reading for Managers: 5 FOCUSed Conversations for Greater Employee Engagement and Productivity and has been recognised by Richard Branson’s 100% Human at Work Initiative for the innovative, yet practical work Ignite Global does to help businesses solve the very complex challenges around the Now of Work.

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  • What’s my role in Wikipatterns.com?

    As Atlassian’s wiki evangelist, one of my main projects was launching Wikipatterns.com and helping it grow into a worthwhile, valuable resource for all wiki users.…

  • Auto-linking interesting text in support cases

    A lot of technical support work is basically pattern-matching, and memorizing. You see a stacktrace, remember vaguely having seen it before, and hunt around until…

  • Six Days in a Leaky Boat

    “It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain”, so sang the Divinyls. I can’t quite remember what the song was about, but they were probably…

  • US Daylight Savings changes in 2007

    In 2007, the US has planned a change to it’s daylight savings time schedule. This may cause problems with Java applications (such as Jira and…

  • Bamboo 1.0 CI Server Released

    Today we officially released Bamboo 1.0, our server software that automates the process of continuously building, integrating and testing software code. By automating the software…

  • Bamboo Saves Jira a Headache

    Last Friday a code check-in was made that made Jira functional tests fail only in Standard and Professional editions. If it was not for Bamboo,…

  • Bamboo 1.0 Released

    The Bamboo team is proud to announce the launch of Bamboo 1.0, Atlassian’s Continuous Integration and Build Telemetry Server. After much blood, sweat and beers…

  • Integrating Crowd with Apache and Subversion

    Internally we have started migrating most of our applications to use Crowd as a central location for authentication and authorization information along with single sign-on…

  • How’s Wikipatterns.com doing?

    Since announcing Wikipatterns on Wednesday, contributors have added 8 new patterns, growing from 29 to 37 patterns! Traffic on the site has tripled every day.…

  • Portlets and Confluence

    Recently, I was charged with the task of creating a portlet that would interact with Confluence. The idea was to see how difficult it is,…

  • Using XMLTask for Maven and Ant

    I just thought I should share this great little gem I stumbled across last week when I was faced with this Crowd Issue. After a…

  • Do your math homework in Confluence

    Me, I pretty much hated math in high school. But apparently lots of other people really like it. In fact, they like math so much…

  • Introducing Wikipatterns.com

    The biggest challenge you face after first deciding to use a wiki is getting all of your coworkers to use it too. Some organisations have…

  • Introducing Wikipatterns.com

    The biggest challenge you face after first deciding to use a wiki is getting all of your coworkers to use it too. Some organisations have…

  • Preventing Concurrent Operations

    Some operations you don’t want to run concurrently for various reasons. Here’s a simple technique for preventing them.