Agile Human Resource Management at Atlassian: A Review and Recommendations

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Executive Summary
The following report discussed the agile transformation of many activities of human resource
management to achieve success in today’s dynamic business environment. The following report
is based on article “HR goes Agile”. On the basis of this article, the report evaluated that the HR
activities of Atlassian are how agile and these activities are talent selection, training of
employees, learning and development of employees, establishing pay structure for employees
and managing the performance of employees. After evaluating all these activities, report
recommended some ideas to make these activities more agile. With these recommendations,
Atlassian can create more agility in all these functions of human resource management.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Talent selection................................................................................................................................3
Managing employees’ performance................................................................................................4
Training and coaching of employees...............................................................................................5
Establishing pay structure of employees and compensation...........................................................6
Learning and development of employees........................................................................................6
Recommendations............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References List................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Atlassian is an Australian well-known software company. Its main function is to produce
products for software developers and project managers. Its main product is the Jira Application
which is a tracking application. Atlassian mainly has 135,000 customers who use their services.
The company was founded in 2002 by Mike Kennan Brooks and Scott Farquhar. The two
founders met at a university in Sydney and formed the pair. They both started the company with
a $ 10,000 credit card debt, but then bootstrapped the company for a few years. The name of the
company is derived from Greek mythology. From 2011 to 2014, the company re-launched its
logo, this time the logo featured a blue X-shaped figure under the sky. Jira, which is the main
product of this company, was launched by the company in 2002. Apart from Jira, some other
products of this company are Jira Confluence Hipchat, Stride Bitbucket, Bitbucket Server
Bamboo, Fisheye Crucible Trello, Atlassian Marketplace, Sourcetree Crowd, Statuspage,
OpsGenie and Jira service desk (Atlassian, 2019a).
The following report will discuss the human resource management of Atlassian. It will evaluate
the talent selection process, performance appraisal process, training, and coaching of employees,
pay structure of employees and learning and development system of employees in the context of
Atlassian Company. After evaluating these functions, the report will recommend some
improvements in HR function on the basis of article “HR goes Agile”.
Talent selection
Talent selection is an important and dynamic process to hire new employees. Requirements for
each vacancy have changed significantly with iteration which takes place. To better control the
entire process quickly and adapt to changing requirements, agile talent selection is perfect for
streamlined recruitment companies. The underlying idea of hiring the employer and the
candidate named agile is to provide great value and satisfaction for both. This can be done by
getting the right "fit" and to define a profitable and efficient time (Bdareen & Khasawneh,
2019).
Talent selection is a strategic approach to perform the general functions of human resource
management. Talent management has a huge contribution to the HR environment and all this is