Meet Cameron. She’s a product manager at a mid-sized tech company, tasked with the challenge of increasing usage of their mobile app. She knows she’ll need all hands on deck to make this happen. But, previously when she’s set team-wide goals like this, things have quickly fallen off-track.

Ah, teamwork. When everyone’s in sync and productivity is high, working together is a dream. You meet your deadlines with ease, your brainstorms produce the best ideas, and working together is – dare I say it? – fun.

If you work in an enterprise-scale organization, you’ve no doubt dreamt about the potential your organization would have if your teams worked together as well as the gears in a Formula 1 car. To be honest, this is what keeps Atlassians up at night too: trying to figure out how to get that optimal outcome with so many other factors and influences butting in.

Fun fact: according to the National Center for Biotechnology Research, 25% of us abandon our resolutions by January 7th. Just seven measly days into the year?!

Do you ever get an icky feeling when your house is a mess? It can make me so uneasy that I can’t fall asleep until everything is neat and tidy. An organized home that’s easy to clean up quickly has been proven to help people feel more rested and calm. Similarly, in the workplace, having your company’s internal content, information, and knowledge well-organized increases productivity and improves your team’s peace of mind.

As a software or IT leader, estimating and planning for growth is critical. We’ve learned a lot from many of our customers’ journeys and wanted to share some recommendations as you develop a strategy for scale.

This is the story of a Java debugging journey that started with a question I couldn’t answer about Java stack traces. As a long time Java programmer, I am approached for help by developers who encounter unusual problems in the language.

Think back to your last team meeting. Did you get in everything you wanted to say? Did that one rambunctious teammate jump in before you could finish your killer point? We’ve all been there. It feels like crap, right? Yet, the truth is that how it makes us feel is only part of the story. There’s also the not-so-trivial matter of how being ignored or talked over in meetings limits the entire group’s performance.