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Mark Cruth

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Focused on practice over theory, Mark is a pragmatic modern work designer and coach. With over a decade of experience experimenting with teamwork practices at places like Boeing, Nordstrom, Charles Schwab, and Rocket Mortgage, Mark’s mission is to inject modern ways of working, a transformation mindset, and the power of expert storytelling into everything he does.

Today Mark works as the Principle Modern Work Coach for Atlassian, a company focused on unleashing the potential of every team! Mark spends his days coaching both Atlassian and customer teams on new ways of working, then sharing what he’s learned at events around the world!

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  • Confluence 101: 3 Ways to Keep Your Team Connected with @mentions

    Ever @mentioned someone in Facebook or Twitter? It’s the perfect way to grab someone’s attention and bring them into a conversation. Best of all, you…

  • Smart branching with SourceTree and Git-flow

    Note: for brevity this article refers to Git and git-flow, but SourceTree supports exactly the same concepts in Mercurial via Hg Flow too. In early…

  • Jira 5.1 deep dive – Performance & Scale

    Atlassian is growing, and a big focus in Jira development has been our continued work on performance and scale. We gave a preview of some…

  • An Enterprise Treat – Space Archiving & Attachment Management Coming in Confluence 4.3

    Confluence 4.3 has been released. Learn more! We’ve been building a lot of hype for the upcoming release of Confluence, trust us, it’s for good reason.…

  • Story branching and continuous integration: a swords-to-plowshares tale

    I’ll confess to being a little intimidated by the prospect of writing this blog. See, I haven’t been active as a coder for a couple…

  • Connect Jira to your Git or Mercurial Repositories with the Jira DVCS Connector

    Looking for a way to connect your Git or Mercurial repositories to your Jira issues? Atlassian has recently released a new update to the Jira DVCS Connector to help you connect…

  • Marketplace Monday: Creately for Confluence

    This is the second post in our Marketplace Monday blog series. Each week, we profile one great add-on available in the Atlassian Marketplace–where you can…

  • Reasons to go to AtlasCamp 2012, Part 1

    You might have noticed that we’ve opened up registration to AtlasCamp, our annual developer fest in sunny and beautiful Half Moon Bay, California. This year’s event will…

  • Atlassian Inspires UK Testing Startup – Behave for Jira

    Hindsight is a start-up company focused on building intelligent testing software that supports agile practices such as acceptance testing.  Using the Atlassian Marketplace to enable…

  • The E-mail Culture – Why do people use e-mail to begin with?

    This is a guest post by Jacob Morgan, the principal of Chess Media Group, a management consulting and strategic advisory firm on collaboration. Jacob is also…

  • No Pain, More Gain: Updates to the Plugin Manager

    If you’ve taken a look at the Administration page in Jira, Confluence, or our developer tools lately, you might have notice that we’ve taken the…

  • Announcing the Codegeist 2012 Winners

    Seven short weeks ago, on the first day of Summit, we kicked off Codegeist 2012, our sixth annual add-on development competition. Participants had six weeks to throw…

  • More Admin Love – 3 User Management Improvements Coming in Confluence 4.3

    Confluence 4.3 has been released. Learn more! The upcoming release of Confluence promises to be one of the biggest releases in Confluence’s history. I might…

  • Jira 5.1 deep dive – Working with Issues, Faster

    The create and edit dialogs in Jira 5 make working with issues faster by letting you see focus on just the fields you care about…

  • Marketplace Monday: Tempo by TM Software

    This is the first post in a new Atlassian blog series, Marketplace Mondays. Each week, we profile one great add-on available in the Atlassian Marketplace–where you…