How Wendy’s turned everyday challenges into enterprise-wide transformation The learnings in this blog post are based on the session “Wendy’s recipe for launching faster with Atlassian” from Atlassian’s Team ’26 conference. Watch this session on demand. Prior to adopting a unified enterprise platform, the nationwide restaurant chain Wendy’s operated in a fragmented manner. Teams were managing their own tool subscriptions, duplicating efforts, and relying on inconsistent processes, spreadsheets, and disconnected data. Without a unified strategy or governed source of truth, it was hard to see work clearly, report on progress, support audits, or scale better ways of working across IT and business teams. That is why Wendy’s chose Atlassian as its platform for scaling. The team needed more than another project tracker; they needed a connected system that could support work management, portfolio governance, knowledge sharing, service workflows, assets, analytics, and automation without forcing every team into the same rigid process. Wendy’s Atlassian Administrator Deven Gambrell and Portfolio Manager of Technology Initiatives Emery Jordan shared how their two-person team helped grow Wendy’s Atlassian footprint from 147 users to nearly 1,000 active users in less than two years. Gambrell brings nearly a decade of Atlassian administration experience across both data center and cloud environments. Jordan has spent over 20 years in the program, project, and portfolio management space across multiple industries. Together, they are the entire Atlassian team at Wendy’s, and the growth they drove was powered by change management, relationship-building, and practical solutions delivered across the business. From focused IT adoption to enterprise-wide impact When Wendy’s began this journey, the company’s Atlassian footprints had pockets of usage, but it was not yet positioned as the central enterprise platform. Over time, that changed dramatically. What made Atlassian the right platform was not a top-down mandate. It was the combination of enterprise govern...
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