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Firms Try to Turn 'black-Ops It' Into Products


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Atlassian employees

Employees at Atlassian, which runs contests challenging staff to devise features its customers would use.

Credit: Seb Ruiz

Since the early days of Silicon Valley, rogue engineers and software developers have engaged in "black-ops IT," a tradition of sneaking new technology into their companies to amuse themselves and thumb their noses at corporate protocol.

From The Wall Street Journal
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