 | We've wrapped up the FedEx Day 2011 campaign. Thanks to everyone who took the time to enter! A winner will be chosen January 2012 and emailed directly--watch our blog for a post announcing the winner. |
Atlassian's "FedEx Day" is time set aside for developers to work on whatever they want with a skew towards our products.We tend to run "FedEx" with a fairly open format where you can do whatever you want as long as you can somehow relate it to our products. We have expanded it such that we set aside 1 1/2 days for the developers to complete their ideas. We start after lunch on a Thursday and work until 4pm Friday when we present what we have to everyone.
The goals of "FedEx" are:
- Foster creativity. Atlassian is good at hiring smart people and we'd be mad to keep all that brain-power locked up.
- Scratch itches. Every developer has something that bugs them about our products, or something they'd like to see them do.
- Spike. Often, radical ideas don't get traction because we don't understand how they'd work or what benefit they'd provide.
- Have fun. Institutions like FedEx make Atlassian a fun place to work.
Being the competitive individuals we are we also have a trophy plus bragging rights for the winner.
How it works
See the FedEx Day FAQ.