Monthly Archives: June 2006

Dawn of Confluence at Relic Entertainment

Canada's Relic Entertainment, the makers of Dawn of War and other real-time strategy and multiplayer games, recently installed Confluence for collaboration. Relic's Frank Roberts was telling Jim in the San Francisco customer advocate group, "We recently switched to Confluence [from another wiki whose name shall be withheld :) ] to achieve the same result but with better support, a more-polished product, and the benefit of a WYSIWYG editor." With Confluence, Relic staff document company policies,

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JIRA’s Second Life at Linden Lab

Linden Lab called us a couple months ago to show us how they are using JIRA. Now, many of our customers have customised our products in innovative and interesting ways, but rarely have we talked with a customer doing anything like this. Linden Lab has democratized just about every aspect of decision-making. Employees across functional areas in the company share new ideas and strategies, rate each another's ideas, get their daily tasks, and communicate with one another all through JIRA. On your first

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Wikis–a disruptive innovation

Cindy Gordon writes in the May issue of KMWorld on wikis: What is clear is organizations continue to spend millions of dollars on content management infrastructure solutions, rather than putting more power in the hands of their users to collaborate effectively together. The wiki paradigm is disruptive because it is a low-cost alternative that brings key editing features into the hands of users. The approach increases the collaborative productivity of an organization or its extended ecosystems. Read

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Johns Hopkins and JIRA

Staff at Johns Hopkins University, the first research university in the U.S., are long time fans of JIRA. At JHU, JIRA's used to manage thousands of issues, tasks, and bugs across multiple projects, most recently for the deployment of a new student information system. "So I turned to my director and said, 'I used a product, JIRA. We didn't spend a lot of money on it and really got our bang for the buck." - Geoffrey Corb, IT Director, Johns Hopkins University. Nice. Read our conversation with Geoffrey

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Using Wikis for Academic Research

I had a chat (thanks Skype!) with Peter Higgs at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation at Queensland University of Technology about their use of Confluence for academic research and collaboration. It wasn't too hard to track Peter down as he's related to one of the developers here, Jeremy. Small world, too, because in a past life both Peter (in Brisbane) and I (in San Francisco) worked in different companies within the digital rights management and digital media industries.

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Dots and Dashes – Social Software Success

Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes were featured in the June issue of The Bulletin: In just four years, Atlassian has achieved what many Australian software companies have found impossible: create a global market. It was ranked as the fastest-growing Australian software company in 2005 and the third-fastest of any company in Australia. Read the complete article here.

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