Wanted: VP of Engineering @ Atlassian
Hello blog readers. Quite some time eh? Nothing new there. Life’s been busy!
In the last 6 months I turned 30, travelled a few laps of the globe, got married to the most wonderful woman on the planet, took a long holiday for the first time since we started and now I’m back on deck in Sydney leading 250 awesome Atlassian’s… and 2010 has barely started.
Phew!
It’s going to be an absolutely huge year.
I’m hoping to write more this year, but like always – life seems to get in the way!
For now, we’re Read more [...]
Stimulus Update – World Maps & 4 Hours Left
A really super quick “Atlassian Stimulus”:http://www.atlassian.com/starter update.
We’re 116 hours in, we have _4 hours left_.
Total so far *$97,470*! That’s right, we’re $2.5k short of $100k. Given that the US is just starting to go out for a beer on a Friday night, it will go _right_ down to the wire. What a ripper of a finale!
If you haven’t yet – we’d love your support. One last hurrah. Grab whatever megaphone you have – your blog, Facebook, email, Twitter or just open your window – and yell Read more [...]
Stimulus Day 3 – Dashboard & Stats
Another 24 hours and the snowball that is the “Atlassian Stimulus Package”:http://www.atlassian.com/starter keeps rolling. Just incredible.
In 75 hours, we’ve helped almost *5,000 startups and small teams* in *77 countries* get some “kick ass software”:http://www.atlassian.com/software while raising over *$66,400* for “Room To Read”:http://www.roomtoread.org – my favourite charity.
Small plug – if you’re in Sydney or SF and want to work for the company that _makes_ the kick ass tools, “we’re hiring”:http://www.atlassian.com/about/careers!
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Stimulus Update – Holy Cow!
It’s all hands on deck here at Atlassian HQ. Our little “stimulus package”:http://www.atlassian.com/starter seems to have set the Internet alight.
A little ultra-quick update. What’s happened in the first 48 hours?
First, the big announcement.
Remember how we had that little goal of raising *$USD 25,000* for “Room To Read”:http://www.roomtoread.org to build libraries for kids in the developing world?
Well – we did that. Already. In fact, we did it in just over 23 hours. Yup! Holy s**t! Or as we say Read more [...]
Atlassian Stimulus Package Announced
Just a quick post to mention that the “Atlassian Stimulus Package”:http://www.atlassian.com/starter has gone live!
Following on from my “last post on strategy”:http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/2008/12/strategy_is_something_you_can_learn.html, I have a muuuch longer essay coming covering the why behind it later (which I’ll hopefully post later tonight Sydney time) but for right now I just want to get the word out.
*The Skinny*: Pretty simple. For the next 5 days, get “Confluence”:http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence Read more [...]
Strategy is Something You Can Learn
Quite often when speaking I’m asked how we “came up with” “Atlassian’s”:http://www.atlassian.com strategy and business model.
(slide from “Scaling Atlassian”:http://www.slideshare.net/mcannonbrookes/scaling-atlassian-march-2008 presentation)
For a long while, this question used to throw me. I’d answer something like “Uh… well, it just kind of evolved.” or “Uhm… it was really just common sense?”.
These answers of course aren’t helpful Read more [...] !http://img.skitch.com/20081203-pwssfg4utpa9k4bxcreyep298.jpg!
A Bicycle for the Mind
I’m not sure how this video got past me. I thought I was one of the biggest fans of early Steve Jobs history, yet somehow I’d never seen this video of Steve describing computers to him:
What a fantastic analogy – and prescient. Love him or hate him, the man is a genius.
In other Steve love, I thoroughly recommend reading “Inside Steve’s Brain”:http://www.insidestevesbrain.com/ by Leander Kahney. He fawns a little bit, but there are some gem stories in there. Also this analysis of “Apple Strategy”:http://fishtrain.com/2007/08/15/steve-jobs-master-plan/ Read more [...]
Return of the Charlie
G’day. It’s been far too long. Enough said.
Sometimes life gets busy, so you forget to blog. You’ll have more time tomorrow. Then you forget again. And again. Soon you’re completely out of the habit of blogging. Small impulses run through your brain periodically – “Oh right, blog – I should do that. Tomorrow.”. People start asking “Did you stop blogging for a reason?” or “When are you going to blog?”. Tomorrow. Sadly, tomorrow rarely ever gets less busy than today.
Then something happens which jolts Read more [...]
JavaOne, Atlassian and free beer
I’m back in SF for our User Group (last Thursday @ Stanford – thanks to everyone who came, fantastic UG!) and JavaOne next week.
We have a huge schedule for JavaOne this year – with 6 new product launches in the last three weeks in time for the show – “JIRA Studio”:http://www.jira.com (the big one), “Bamboo 2.0″:http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo (distributed builds, Confluence integration), “Fisheye 1.5″:http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye (real-time per user line count graphs – “sample”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/FishEye+1.5+Release+Notes), Read more [...]
$USD 1 million, 10,000 customers and 20% time
As always, life became busy and I stopped blogging. Apologies!
A few Atlassian, life and (Atlassian + life) updates:
* Atlassian is doing a grand experiment in engineering with our “20% time trial”:http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2008/03/20_time_experiment.html – watch that blog if you’re a software team, it’s really going to be fascinating. _We’re being open._
* We’ve passed “10,000 customers”:http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2008/02/were_past_10000.html and $3m in monthly sales, our products Read more [...]
Atlassian
Atlassian is a customer-driven software company, combining brilliantly simple tools with legendary service.
About Customers News Developer
Daily, over 15,000 organisations from 110 countries use our tools:
- JIRA - issue tracking, project management and workflow.
- Confluence - the enterprise wiki. collaborate and discuss.
- Bamboo - the Zen of continuous integration.
- Clover - code coverage analysis - test with confidence
- Crowd - single sign-on simplified.
- Crucible - efficient peer code review.
- FishEye - source code repository insight.
- JIRA Studio - integrated hosted development suite.
Oh, and we're always hiring. If you're reading this, there's a good chance you're our kind of person. See open positions.
Investments
Advising startups is something I've started doing in the last year. It's a fascinating way to use one's brain and experience to solve other people's problems.
I'm loving it.
Besides the few I advise, I've invested in one, HomeThinking.
HomeThinking provides realtor reviews, ratings and metrics (qualitative and quantitive) for home sellers.
I also make a lot of small microfinance loans to entrepreneurs around the world through Kiva. Read more about my on going Kiva Challenge (update).
