Whois & Analysis for upraise.io

Atlassian is an enterprise software company that develops products for software developers, project managers, and content management.

It is best known for its issue tracking application, Jira, and its team collaboration and wiki product, Confluence.

Atlassian serves over 60,000 customers.

Jira (stylized JIRA) is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian.

It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions.

Although normally styled JIRA, the product name is not an acronym, but a truncation of Gojira, the Japanese name for Godzilla, itself a reference to Jira's main competitor, Bugzilla.

It has been developed since 2002.

Performance management (PM) includes activities which ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner.

Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization, a , employee, or even the processes to build a product or service, as well as many other areas.

Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.

A project is a temporary endeavor designed to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables) undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value.

The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual (or operations), which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services.

In practice, the management of these two systems is often quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies.

Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.

The system can then be said to feed back into itself.

The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems: