What's Your One Question?

[John Funk]

In view of Atlassian Team '24 coming up next week, let's say you end up in the elevator at the Venetian with either Atlassian co-founder, Mike Cannon-Brookes or Scott Farquhar. Or maybe both!

After some chitchat, you have time for one question. What's it going to be? 

Now's your big chance - what would you really like to know??

For those of you who will be in Vegas next week, you never know where one of them might turn up! So, what's it gonna be? 

[Eduardo Oliveira_Mindpro]

The first one that comes to my mind is: What are the plans, and what can we expect about the future of the Data Center?

[Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_]

Can you yourself keep track of all the different communication channels regarding product updates or are you getting the management summary - if so, could I get that too?

[John Funk]

Yes!!!! Wouldn't we all LOVE to get that summary!!

[Dave Liao]

This, this a thousand times.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

Hmm. Since, I won't actually be there and have to face asking this question in person…

Why is there so little movement on defects-logged-in-Jira-as-change-requests related to Confluence Cloud? If you're never going to let us insert a screenshot from a file already attached to the page or insert a note panel or screenshot between steps 3 and 4 without messing up the numbering, just tell us, so we can stop following the tickets and reading all the pleading comments from new users who happen upon them.

[John Funk]

Yep, yep, yep! Anything dealing with the JAC would be at the top of my list!

[Andy Gladstone]

Do you know how many support requests are avoided because the Atlassian Community answers them first?

[John Funk]

Hoping they might actually share this one from the stage this year! I bet it is mind-blowing. 

[Summer Hogan]

That's a good one @Andy Gladstone!

[Stephen_Lugton]

Why do requests or bugs raised by users just sit on a ticket 'gathering interest' forever?

[John Funk]

I was saving my question for after others posted - but you just hit the nail on the head! That would also be my question. 

[Kimberly Deal _Columbus ACE_]

Why is "don't #@!% the Customer" one of your companies core values and how to do you see that value in play today?

or maybe just "what's your favorite 80's Band?" 

[John Funk]

HAHA - that's a couple of different ends of the spectrum. And valid questions!

[Dreamsuite Mike]

"Would you rather fight 1 horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?"

[John Funk]

Something tells me that would actually be the perfect question!

[Barbara Szczesniak]

A perfect agile question!

[Stephen_Lugton]

There's not enough detail here, I'm going to return this to the backlog for further refinement.

[Dreamsuite Mike]

I've chosen to duck that last comment... 🦆😂

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi, and thanks for this topic, @John Funk 

Here is one I have pondered many times over the years (where the details change but the concerns remain the same)...

With the inconsistent changes in feature sets (or lack thereof) between Jira areas (e.g., CMP, TMP, JPD, issue searching / views, dashboards), often only supplemented by marketplace vendors, and the similarly inconsistent changes to pricing (e.g., JPD vs Jira, automation model re-packaging), what is the Atlassian team doing to better align to something that feels like a single ecosystem product with understandable and rationally scalable pricing?

Kind regards,
Bill

[John Funk]

Awesome question - and one I would love to know the answer to, also!

[Darryl Lee]

Wait, is it these guys? 

Well, if it's like years past, I might have to ask if they know the root cause of the outage. :-D

[Hipchat in 2015(?) (when ChatOps was the hot thing?), Cloud in 2022]

[Darryl Lee]

(Because we had a TAM, and because I'm that guy, I _did_ ask Scott about the HipChat outage when I had my 5 minutes of face-to-face with him. He was incredibly gracious and apologetic to my pretty jerky question.)

[John Funk]

Yep, that's them - was trying to refrain from posting any actual pictures so as to not defame them haha. Always a challenge to answer those types of questions, and I don't envy them. 

[Summer Hogan]

Great question @John Funk! I would ask what is the biggest hurdle or problem you have faced as CEO and what did you learn from it? Although I like @Andy Gladstone's question better and I hope they talk about that on stage! 

[John Funk]

Hearing advance from a CEO with multi-billion dollar revenue is always enlightening! This is also something we could all benefit from. 

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Great question @John Funk and one I've long pondered.

My question to them would be: "Taking into account that you've started Atlassian as grad students because you didn't want to work for the big enterprise banks: Would you join Atlassian if you were a new grad today? Or would you start your own company?"

[John Funk]

What an awesome question! Hoping you get the opportunity!

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Do you smell popcorn?

[John Funk]

No even sure what to do with that one, haha. 

[Alex G]

I won’t be attending the event, but if I were to go, I would think about this idea for days so I would have an incredible question in case I met them in the elevator :D

[John Funk]

Well, think of a question and pass it along here. Maybe someone will be fortunate enough to be in the elevator and get TWO questions.  :-)

[Dave Liao]

🙏 Can we please get some form of ID-240 - er, I mean ID-6403! - released to production before I have to send my kid to university[1]?

[1] I don't even have children yet...

[Maria Andruzzi]

If I were stuck in that elevator, I would ask him why his employees feel like it’s ok to park in the spots reserved for the disabled, when they aren’t disabled. I attached photos. It’s the CVS on horizon ridge pkwy and eastern, Henderson NV. 

[Jonathan Smith]

Nice parking job as well!

[Jonathan Smith]

Would you consider improving file management in Confluence to become more of a SharePoint competitor? My company is having an internal civil war when it comes to our hybrid environment, it would be nice to standardize on one product (Confluence Cloud).

[John Funk]

Standardization is always nice!

[Vronik]

There would be so many questions for the Atlassian team, that if they provided a group of only direct questions there would be many, but the best would be a precise answer with dates. It would also be interesting to know if something is not feasible to know to find alternative solutions to the problem.