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Mike Cannon-Brookes

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Mike Cannon-Brookes is CEO and Co-founder of Atlassian. Outside the company, Mike is a technology investor in the areas of software, fintech, agriculture and energy. Mike has been recognised as a leading entrepreneur by Ernst & Young, the Australian Financial Review, Forbes and the World Economic Forum. A passionate clean energy evangelist, he continues to be an investor in climate change philanthropy and sustainable solutions.


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Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment

I’m happy to announce that we are undertaking a thorough, public “20% time” trial at Atlassian. If you’ve ever wondered how Google’s famed 20% time works in reality, we’ll be your guinea pigs and blogging the results for everyone to see. Why do 20% time? Atlassian has a proud tradition of innovation. We’ve always strived have […]


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Jira Studio: Stream of Development Consciousness

I suspect it comes as no surprise to any developer if I say that “Facebook”:http://www.facebook.com has become extremely popular (not to mention extremely valuable!) over the last year. The feature on Facebook that has most intrigued me is the activity feed. For those that don’t know, Facebook’s feed shows you activity (any form of action […]


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Cutlassian 2007

This is going to be a long post but I promise it’ll be worth your while. Grab a cup of joe, sit back, relax and read on matey! h1. The Background Historically at Atlassian, there are 3 big staff events at Atlassian during the year – Christmas, Melbourne Cup (or Superbowl if you’re on the […]


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Aeron, Cube or Mac Pro?

We’re known for providing Aeron’s to all employees (not just developers), but someone snapped this photo of Pete, Brendan, Ben and I madly working on some last updates for the “Cenqua acquisition”:http://www.atlassian.com/cenqua. Incidentally this photo shows a few things: # You can never have enough chairs # Mac Pro boxes can easily support a large […]


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ShipIt V – Chatrooms in Confluence

For my ShipIt V project, the first challenge was simply committing myself to a single idea. Eventually (after a few single class prototypes) I settled on the challenge of trying to integrate chatrooms into Confluence. After a few trade offs, I think this actually ended up turning out brilliantly – far better than I had […]