Case Study: Cochlear achieves 50–80% faster code reviews and streamlined global collaboration with Atlassian (Jira)

Cochlear collaborates across the globe with Jira

Cochlear, a Sydney-based leader in cochlear implants since 1982, invests 15% of revenue in R&D and maintains a 35-person software team split between Sydney and Belgium. The distributed teams faced coordination challenges across distance and time zones and needed a project-management solution to streamline development, testing and releases.

They adopted Jira (and later Confluence, Bitbucket and other Atlassian tools) to track issues through a clear developer → reviewer → tester workflow, giving full visibility and consistency. Adoption spread across IT, marketing, quality, regulatory and regional teams (now touching over 60% of employees), resulting in a more organized release process, excellent vendor support, a 50–80% reduction in code-review time, and measurably better collaboration and morale.

Cochlear

Victor Rodrigues

Chief Software Engineer