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RIP FedEx Day, Meet [Your idea here] Day

  • By Joe Lambe, Demand Generation Manager
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  • On May 16, 2012
Since 2005, we've been holding quarterly internal "innovation" days - our unique blend of a hack day and Google's 20% time. Seven years later, we've done 19 of these events, featuring more than 500 projects from developers, IT ninjas, and even marketing folks. The name for the event was inspired by the one company that "ships" more than anyone - FedEx - and their commitment to ship something in 24 hours. We liked the idea of applying that "ship in a day" concept to these internal innovation hack-a-thons,

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FedEx Day: And the winner is…

  • By Ly Nguyen, Marketing Coordinator
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  • On March 21, 2012
Every quarter, our engineers get to 24 hours to work on anything they want related to Atlassian with the aim of shipping a functional product. We call these innovation days FedEx Days, named after FedEx's famous promise to ship anywhere in a day. We've run nineteen FedEx Days total, with over 550 projects presented since our inaugural event. And in November 2011, we launched a campaign to put on a FedEx Day for another company – beer, trophies, and FedExperts supplied by us.  We held a call

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(Press Release) Nintendo Named Winner of Atlassian’s 24-Hour FedEx Day Innovation Campaign

Atlassian's Innovation Campaign Raises Awareness for How Companies Can Motivate and Inspire Their Employees  SAN FRANCISCO, March 21, 2012 -- With a desire to help other companies innovate, Atlassian, the leading provider of collaboration software for product teams, is sending three of its seasoned engineers to Nintendo's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., to run a 24-hour innovation event known as an Atlassian FedEx Day. Inspired by FedEx Corporation’s commitment to “ship in a day,” Atlassian

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Fedex 18 – The Winners

While we think all our fedexers are winners, the finalists in the 18th edition of Fedex were more winners than others. 1st Place Don Willis, Ryan Ackley, Wesley Walser, Chris Mountford and Alex Wei carried home the glory with the aptly named Awesome Paste for Confluence. In their entry, they implemented an editor plugin to transform a pasted URL into a neater format. In fact, we liked it so much we included in Confluence and called it Autoconvert. Other finalists Chris LePetit and Robert

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(Case Study) FedEx Day Romanian Style: Lateral Illustrates How Far a Little Innovation Can Go

In case you haven't noticed, we're pretty excited about our FedEx Days around here. Every quarter, we give employees the chance to work on anything that relates to our products, and deliver a solution within 24 hours – hence the name, FedEx Day. Last week, we launched a campaign to share FedEx Day with one lucky organization that needs a kick of innovation, Atlassian-style. Check out the page we put together for further details. In celebration of FedEx Day, we'll be highlighting several companies

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(Press Release) Atlassian Empowers Companies to Tap Their Inner Genius

24 Hours to Deliver Change: Atlassian’s FedEx Day Campaign Challenges Companies to Jumpstart Innovation SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atlassian, a leading provider of collaboration products for enterprise software development teams, today announced its “Atlassian FedEx Day” Campaign, an open call for companies to apply to win a 24-hour day of innovation hosted by Atlassian’s expert engineers. Chronicled by author Dan Pink in his best-selling book, “Drive,” Atlassian’s FedEx Days

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