In 2001, a couple of Sydney computer science students – in a bout of adolescent-like lazy/energetic inspiration – wrote a program that made programming easier.
Mostly ignored when it became available two months ago, the product is called Atlas. Originally, as Atlassian grew to 8000 employees, it was built to help Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar keep track of what their staff were doing.“We couldn’t run the company without this tool,” says Sean Regan, Atlassian’s head of product marketing. “I think it represents one of the biggest bets of the company into the biggest [potential] markets.
Atlas took a couple of years to evolve from an in-house tool to a commercial product. During this time its working title was “Watermelon”, a reference to projects that look good from outside but are red inside.
Ah yes, another privileged private school kid who got lucky with a software company pushing utopian societal dreams from his castle in the sky.
These guys are committed to removing all face to face interactions, autists
Not without power, no
MCB needs to have a shave, dress like a grown up and stop telling people how to live. That's a good idea.
JIRA sucks balls