You’d think a company that focuses on building tools used for keeping and sharing information electronically would use its own tools — “eat their own dog food,” so to speak — and you’d be right that Atlassian does. But it also understands how to have good face-to-face conversations. When I walk around the Atlassian office in Sydney, I see the walls covered with sticky notes, whiteboard drawings, and screen wireframes. If you look closely, you’ll see that the sticky notes reference ticket numbers in those tools the team relies on. They nimbly move back and forth from tools to physical space.
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