Atlassian Team 2021 Q+A with Paul Biagio, Akshay Patki, and Divya Sriram

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Hello Community members! 

Paul, Akshay, and Divya just gave their Team '21 talk on 

Now's your chance to ask them any questions that came up during their presentation! You can also ask them about:

• How HR + IT work together at Atlassian
• Tips for scaling employee experience for a 100% remote team
• New remote employee onboarding
• Measuring the value add of HR + IT collaborations
• Onboarding Technology connecting HRIS System, Jira, Trello, Slack
• And more!

Get your questions in before next Tuesday, May 4th to receive an answer from this all-star team.

[Fabienne Gerhard]

Really like this one because in my last company HR & IT didn't fit together in any chance! My question would be: "How do you get HR people into IT processes without driving IT crazy?"

[Akshay Patki]

Hi Fabienne,

Thanks for your compliment and for your question.

At Atlassian - our people and IT teams collaborate really closely and our presentation was also a manifestation of that : Divya is HR team and Paul and I are from IT.

To begin with - we don't think these are IT processes. These are HR processes, enabled by IT tools and technology. IT is serving HR who are our business/stakeholders. We co-design the processes and brainstorm the solutions feasible with our current technology stack. HR is involved in design, testing, deployment, change management and measuring success using surveys and so on. HR teams do challenge IT teams to improve our solutions to offer better user experience. And that has helped us go beyond the possibilities of the standard offerings of SaaS  tools like Workday, and come up with interesting solutions using Atlassian tools that you saw in the presentation. Hope that helps answer your question. Happy to engage and provide additional insight as needed. 

Regards,

Akshay

[Fabienne Gerhard]

Thanks @Akshay Patki for this detailed answer! Much appreciate that 
As you mentioned breaking silos is the most important and the basis for start - co-design is the word here. Challenging but makeable!