team culture
Three DevOps principles to streamline your operations team
In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the three underlying principles of DevOps created by entrepreneur and IT operations extraordinaire, Gene Kim. These principles describe the values and philosophies that frame the processes and practices from which all DevOps patterns are derived. We’ll also give you some helpful tips and show you a few add-ons from the Atlassian Marketplace to get the most out of these DevOps principles.
How to use group chat to strengthen company culture
Think about how you communicate with the people on your team and in your company. In today’s offices, with distributed teams across the globe, we often don’t have the luxury of just walking up and saying, Yo. This inevitable lack of face time (to say nothing about the missed opportunities to practice your Rocky Balboa voice) leads to more impersonal forms of communication, like email. And over time, a disconnected feeling grows and it affects culture. So, if you can’t be together, you’ve got to replace that feeling of being together. A great way to do this is with group chat, because it encourages communication. And company culture is rooted in the ways teammates and coworkers communicate.
How internal blogging with Confluence created a culture of knowledge sharing at APT
I wish I could say we started with grand plans to revolutionize our company culture, but in all honesty, we simply wanted to share funny stuff without sending an email blast. So, we tried creating a blog on Confluence. It didn’t happen overnight, but we learned a lot. Read on to hear our story, as well as my 7 tips to encourage a culture of internal blogging at your company.
Transitioning from full-time school to full-time life
I’m Jamie, one of 80 new graduates to recently join Atlassian as a developer at our headquarters in Sydney. I’m in the middle of transitioning from “full-time study and part-time work” to just “full-time work”. Seems like that should be easy, right? It’s not. It’s hard in all kinds of ways I didn’t expect. Habits and attitudes that worked well for me and my peers during university are now unproductive in full-time life – and possibly toxic.
Inside Atlassian: building a culture of innovation
Fostering a culture of innovation isn’t about providing ping-pong and free beer. It’s about your values and how you live them. Here’s a look at how we build a culture of innovation and how your company can, too.
Atlassian named best workplace in Australia for the second straight year
We’re both thrilled and humbled that Atlassian has been named the #1 Best Place to Work in Australia for the second year in a row.
Maintaining company culture as your agile teams scale
Establishing a unified culture with a small team can be easy. But as an organization grows, maintaining that same agile culture gets more and more challenging. Teams can become siloed, and the shared company vision, norms, systems, and habits are more difficult to preserve. So what lessons can we impart about keeping your culture intact as your agile teams scale?
#LoveWins at Atlassian
When I moved from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to San Francisco in 2011 to work for Atlassian, I wasn’t sure what to expect. From the outside, everything looked great. They even had these values that seemed to be a big deal. It didn’t take long being on the inside to realize what an amazing place to work […]
Working to be the change that you (the customer) seek
Who loves feedback? I can you tell that we do. We love it so much that we’ve created a team dedicated to seeking, synthesizing, and taking action on feedback from our customers. We call it the ‘Voice of the Customer’ team – i.e., the Voice of You. Recently, we’ve been sending emails and adding feedback prompts in our products with a single question: “On a scale from 1 to 10, how likely are you to recommend the product to a colleague?” And we use your answers to calculate our Net Promoter Score (NPS).
5 blogs that will help make your Confluence intranet more social
Confluence is the perfect place to create an open and social intranet. Our Confluence intranet is full of blogs that create discussion, spawn ideas, and challenge the status quo. Our blogging culture is what keeps us transparent, together, and gives everyone an equal voice. So, to help you spice up your company’s social life, here […]
3 reasons most meetings are pointless
Between pointless meetings and email it’s exceedingly difficult to get work done while you’re actually at work. Time is scarce when your calendar looks like a game of Tetris, but you’d at least hope that all the time spent in meetings is put to good use. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case, and the fact of the […]
3 reasons email hurts your productivity
One of the turning points for communication in the workplace was the invention of email. Historically it’s been the easiest way to make contact in any business relationship – short, pointed conversations with the teammates you work closest with, or quick messages to people you’re communicating with for the very first time. You could say it […]