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Melanie Carasso

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How we do project management at Atlassian

When I joined Atlassian in 2008 as our first engineering program manager, “project management” was a seldom-heard phrase; “program management” was, well, unheard. Now we have a handful of dedicated project and program managers, a little club that meets monthly to share and discuss all things project management, and a steady flow of staff members expressing interest […]

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Can Atlassian develop the world’s best Team Leads?

How do you scale a software engineering department without introducing top-heavy bureaucracies or lowering the talent quality bar? Read on to find out how we’re going about it, and whether it’s working.

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Agile Book Club Explained

Last year, when the engineering team leads & managers were thinking about ways to keep ourselves trained up without going old-school, we came up with the idea of an Agile Book Club. Sounds dull, but the results can be kinda cool.

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Atlassian does the Agile Enterprise Acid Test

How does Atlassian score on Dean Leffingwell’s “Agile Enterprise Acid Test”?

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ShipIt X – Attack of the Gadgets

A short time ago, in a galaxy not too far away, a group of talented but brash Developers were defeated by an enemy alliance forged from planets Tech Writing and Marketing. This epic battle came to be known throughout the universe as “FedEx IX”. Before filming the next installment, “The Developers Strike Back”, we needed to shoot a prequel…