farkas

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I'm the CEO of software company Atlassian, makers of JIRA, Confluence, HipChat
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks for the feedback. We have just completed some replatforming work for Jira, and for some customers it got a lot faster, for some a bit slower.

Regardless of which camp you are in, we have dedicated teams focusing improving Jira performance over the coming few months.

If there is any more information you can provide around your situation, we'd love to hear it in order for us to ensure we fix your specific issue.

Scott CEO, Atlassian

Comment · 8 years ago
I'd love to hear more about the APIs we need to improve. We are exploring using GraphQL for our next revision of APIs, and your experience would help us with that effort. If you're interested - we'd appreciate your feedback.

Scott CEO, Atlassian

Comment · 9 years ago
Depends on what you mean by "left".

We are technically a UK incorporated company, headquartered and half our staff in Sydney and many of our staff and customers in the USA.

I still consider us Australian though.

Comment · 9 years ago
We didn't move to the USA to take funding.

Both founders still live in Australia. Roughly half our global staff are Australian.

These days with local VC funds you can get funding much easier than when we started. That said, for later rounds (>150m+ valuation, tens of millions of dollars in), you are likely to get a better deal from the USA firms.

Scott, founder Atlassian

Comment · 9 years ago
> while atlassian is not, they mostly care for their big customers

What do you base that comment on? Love to know how we can improve (beyond the things already listed above)

Scott (Atlassian CEO)

Comment · 9 years ago
I want to add to what Michael said above.

In meeting with Michael, and discussing how we could work together, Michael could not be more clear that Trello's success is predicated on is breadth and its appeal to many different use-cases.

This is most clearly displayed in their inspiration page, that includes many, many use-cases:

  https://trello.com/inspiration
Keeping this strength alive will be key to Trello's long-term success.

Scott, CEO Atlassian

Comment · 9 years ago
We don't view JIRA and Trello as competitors.

JIRA shines in areas that (a) have workflow and (b) require repeatable processes across a number of people.

Once you have 20+ people on a project, you need repeatable processes.

In cases like bug tracking, project management, customer service, help desks, HR onboarding and hundreds others you need workflow.

Trello shines in areas where you have (a) small teams or (b) require ad-hoc semi-structured data.

In small teams, even if repeatable process would help you, it's not worth the cost of setting up a system - you achieve it by social means.

Trello also has many, many use-cases where you want to start something quick, or personal. In this case it really shines, with near-zero friction to get started.

Scott, CEO Atlassian

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks for the recommendation!

We believe that JIRA Service Desk is the best for most use cases, and we're committed to aggressive pricing.

Let me know if I can help out at all.

Scott Farquhar, CEO Atlassian

Comment · 10 years ago
Sorry for the hassle. Though it's not your issue, we needed to clean up all the different identity systems we had created over the years (Bitbucket, HipChat, Atlassian cloud, Atlassian services). Nothing nefarious, and we have literally spent years planning to make it as seamless for customers as possible.

If you have any issues - contact [email protected].

Scott

Comment · 10 years ago
We have quite a few of our customers move from TFS to the Atlassian suite. We'd welcome you as a customer! Please try them out.

Cheers, Scott CEO, Atlassian

Comment · 10 years ago
As the CEO of Atlassian, I'm obviously biased, but you should really check out Confluence. With 10s of thousands of companies using it for this exact purpose we have deep experience solving this type of problem.

Confluence provides templates for things like retros. It allows embedding of files, videos. Concurrent editing currently being rolled out.

Big thing with collaboration is ensuring things are public by default, which is not the case with Google docs and others.

You need it to be WYSIWYG for non-technical people to use, which rules out GitHub Wiki and others of that ilk.

Happy to answer any other questions about usage if you try it out.

Scott

Comment · 10 years ago

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