Win a ShipIt Day for your company and watch innovation flourish.

Every quarter, we give employees the chance to work on anything that relates to our products and ship it within 24 hours – hence the name, ShipIt Day.

We want to share this spirit of innovation with you. Tell us why your company needs a ShipIt Day and our team of ShipIt Experts will come to your office to lead you through it and give you an innovation boost!

We're excited to announce that the winner of Atlassian's very first external ShipIt Day is Nintendo of America. Check out the official blog post for more details!

The Prize

Atlassian will ship three seasoned ShipIt Experts to your office, anywhere in the world, to lead your very own 24-hour ShipIt Day. This includes:

Lessons learned from our 18 ShipIt Days about how to structure the event and convince your boss it's worth doing.
Atlassian's finest ShipIt Experts in-person to lead your ShipIt Day and judge your hackers' best work.
Documentation of the event and advice on doing it again without us.
A tasty keg, because all ShipIt Days go better with beer.
Your own trophy, t-shirts and ShipIt Day swag.

Atlassian's ShipIt Experts

Jonathan Nolen

Developer Relations Director
15x ShipIt Vet

Mark Halvorson

Chief Imagineer
6x ShipIt Vet
1x ShipIt Winner

Rich Manalang

Developer Advocate
1x ShipIt Vet

ShipIt Day Project Highlights

Tasklist Macro
Elastic Bamboo
JQL Autocomplete
Drag And Drop Attachments
Side-By-Side Diffs

Tasklist Macro

Jens Schumacher, Bamboo Product Manager

This macro was the first Day project that became a shippable feature in our tools.

The Tasklist Macro was a straightforward way to create and update interactive task lists directly on a wiki page without having to switch to the editing view. This feature enabled users to add and alter tasks, check or uncheck to-do items, and re-arrange tasks in order of importance directly within the task list itself. There has since been multiple iterations on this macro, moving towards continually more sophisticated means of integrating task management systems directly into Confluence.

Elastic Bamboo

Adrian Hempel, Bamboo Senior Developer

Adrian Hempel's project was a game changer, allowing for infinite scalability of Bamboo in the cloud.

Focused on removing a substantial amount of the friction required to get a Bamboo instance up and running, Elastic Bamboo enabled any customer to instantly start up a Bamboo server and any number of remote agents using resources provided by Amazon's EC2 services. Elastic Bamboo provided a cost-effective solution for development teams with high build demands, speeding up build feedback by reducing the overall queue time and making additional remote agents available quickly and as needed.

JQL Autocomplete

Dylan Etkin, Bitbucket Development Team Lead

Dylan Etkin hit gold with this one: JQL search auto-complete became one of the most powerful features in JIRA because of its ability to pinpoint searches in very large issue databases.

The auto-complete feature could suggest field names, operators, and values, making it easier for any user to search JIRA more intuitively and efficiently without requiring exhaustive prior knowledge of JQL. JQL search auto-complete added simplicity by parsing queries as they were created and added speed by negating the need to have the user type out the full name of the field or value they were looking for, allowing users to construct queries on the fly.

Drag and Drop Attachments

Ryan Ackley, Integration Senior Java Developer

Ryan Ackley's project gave love to both Confluence and JIRA, offering customers a vastly simplified way to manage information with the products.

The drag-and-drop feature provided users a more intuitive method of sharing relevant content: dragging files directly from their computer onto their browser and instantly attaching them to JIRA issues, Confluence pages or blog posts. Not only were a variety of file types recognized by the feature, but it also shipped with batch upload capability. This feature pushed our products even further towards setting the standard for content collaboration through usability.

Side-By-Side Diffs

Nicolas Venegas, Bitbucket Java Developer

Nicolas Venegas's side-by-side diffs project for FishEye was a painless way to scan your code for changes.

Presenting code in an IDE-like side-by-side diff mode, FishEye displayed two independent panes that scrolled independently while the view remained anchored around a central point. Color-coded segmentation pinpointed where lines had been added, removed, or where the segment's internal content had been modified. Each modification of code linked to the opposite pane via a colored triangle that indicated the location of that change. The result was even stronger visualization of the contents and history of a code repository, allowing users deeper insight into the evolution of their project.

The Fine Print

The submission period is open until 10pm PST on December 21st, 2011. Winners will be notified individually in January 2012 and on the Atlassian blog. You do not need to be an Atlassian customer to be eligible. No purchase is necessary and a purchase of Atlassian products will not increase an entrant's chance of winning. Organizations that have already conducted their own ShipIt Day(s) are allowed to enter. Campaign is open world-wide excluding residents of Quebec, Libya, Iraq, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. However, residents from Easter Island and other quirkily-named places are encouraged to enter. The campaign is free to enter and open to all individuals who are legal residents of the region(s) specified, and have reached the age of 18 at the time of their entry. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are legally eligible to enter under any laws applicable to you in your jurisdiction of residence or otherwise. The organizer determines if a submission meets the campaign requirements and otherwise complies with the rules. By submitting your entry you consent to Atlassian to publish your entry in part or in its entirety.