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Cultivating Developer Joy with Rajeev Rajan, CTO at Atlassian

Apr 15, 2024
Rajeev Rajan, CTO at Atlassian, discusses how he promotes developer joy and transforms Atlassian. Topics include enhancing developer productivity, onboarding engineers effectively, transitioning to a managerial role, leadership principles, mentoring team members, generational shifts in the workforce, and Atlassian's integration of large language models.
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Quick takeaways

  • At Atlassian, focusing on enhancing developer joy boosts productivity and creativity by streamlining processes and tools.
  • Transitioning Atlassian to world-class engineering involves prioritizing customer trust, nurturing talent, and optimizing developer productivity.

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Creating Joy in the Workplace through Developer Productivity

Enhancing developer joy as a key focus at Atlassian to promote productivity and creativity in engineers by streamlining processes and tools. By prioritizing joy in coding, Atlassian aims to remove blockers that hinder the flow of creativity and code creation. With initiatives like the product Compass, which centralizes components and APIs, Atlassian empowers engineers to unblock themselves and continue their work seamlessly.

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