Jimi Wikman

Atlassian has been built on top of five values that have guided their company, the people that work for Atlassian and their products. These five values are:
Open company, no bullshit Build with heart and balance Don’t #@!% the customer Play, as a team Be the change you seek  
Open company, no bullshit
Openness is root level for us. Information is open internally by default and sharing is a first principle. And we understand that speaking your mind requires equal parts brains (what to say), thoughtfulness (when to say it), and caring (how it’s said).
Build with heart and balance
“Measure twice, cut once.” Whether you're building a birdhouse or a business, this is good advice. Passion and urgency infuse everything we do, alongside the wisdom to consider options fully and with care. Then we make the cut, and we get to work.
Don’t #@!% the customer
Customers are our lifeblood. Without happy customers, we’re doomed. So considering the customer perspective - collectively, not just a handful - comes first.
Play, as a team
We spend a huge amount of our time at work. So the more that time doesn’t feel like “work,” the better. We can be serious, without taking ourselves too seriously. We strive to put what’s right for the team first – whether in a meeting room or on a football pitch.
Be the change you seek
All Atlassians should have the courage and resourcefulness to spark change – to make better our products, our people, our place. Continuous improvement is a shared responsibility. Action is an independent one.
 
 
Are they still living according to these Values?
Well, Atlassian slip up from time to time, and that is when we pick up the proverbial pen and add a post here to call them out on it. Unfortunately, Atlassian seems to be in a growing phase and with their work from anywhere policy things are slipping through more and more lately. We see more bugs being shipped to customers and more and more bad practices of greed and bad quality products happening.
So let us call them out on it and make sure the Atlassian we all have grown to love and admire does not lose their way, but stick to their values.
 

As I have already posted, it is time for a new beginning. In this section I will blog about the progress of this site and my thoughts about building it. As I am paying for the blog feature I figure I might as well use it. I will ponder a bit on how I want to use it, but it makes sense to have it available, especially for Clubs.
As for what I am currently doing I am playing around with design while I am waiting for Invision Community V5 to be released. I am creating the new icons and playing around with the colors a bit. I have decided to steal the Atlassian colors because they fit pretty well with what I have in mind and it provides a pretty good starting point.
I am also playing around with the Atlassian product logos where I am exploring a line art version, but I am also creating new icons that are based on the Atlassian logos. These logos are different because unlike the Atlassian logos that have curves, my icons are built up with "pills" instead.
I am having fun, but there is a lot of work to be done to set this up the way I want it. The colors alone are around 130+ colors and then I will need to decide on product colors and make the new icons. I will also need to create the CSS classes for all the colors, but for ths icons I am adding them to FontAwesome, so that is super handy!
I will write more about the changes here as I get deeper into the process.
So, more to come!