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Connecting Cross-functional Teams During Product Development with Confluence

Javascript Developer, AtlassianWesley Walser

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Designer, NASA Lunar Module

If a major project is truly innovative, you

cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning.

Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.

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Our Version of The StoryDream It Plan It

Build It Launch It

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• Dream• Get It Down

• Hash It Out

• Mock It Up

• Plan It

• Build It• Launch

• Align

Where We Use Confluence(And what I’ll cover in this talk)

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• What product development reallylooks like at Atlassian

• 4.2 Case Study• Q&A

Approach

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What Product Development Really Looks Like

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Get It Down

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New is a constant.

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• Customers

• Blogs

• Product Managers

• Founders

• Other products

Get It Down‘New’ is a constant

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Get It DownConfluence - No Stress• People push good

ideas forward(given the right culture)

• Confluence Helps• Shares

• Popular Content

• Very few listsMonday, June 18, 12

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• Code Talks

• Prototypes

• Previously known as Major Shipping Company Day

• 20%

Get It DownEngineering lead organization

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Hash It Out

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• Immediate• Comments

• Likes

• Shares

• Mentions

• HipChat integration

Hash It OutOverlap with get it down

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• Collaborative!• Constructive?

• Important stuff bubbles

• Balance is cultural• Not software

• Not enforced through process or authority

Hash It OutYou say ˈkäment, I say flame war

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• Shipped!• You what?

• Where?

• Speakeasy• Find ways to safely

prototype

• Comment over meeting

Hash It OutThat engineering culture thing again

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Mock It Up

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• Beginning of Design• Nope

• Visual but not too real• Tool of the trade

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Mock It UpBrief to wireframe - Into the light

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• Style Guides• Discussion artifacts• Tools of the trade

• Fisheye

• Stash

Mock It UpWireframe to design

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Plan It

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• Atlassian• Polyglot Agile

• Confluence team• Kanban

Plan ItIn whatever way you like

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• Tools of the trade• JIRA

• GreenHopper

• Confluence

• Team Calendars

• Atlassian.com/resources/better-together

Plan ItTools

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Build It

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• Doneness• Micro - JIRA

• Macro - Confluence

• FedEx & 20%

Build ItWork work

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• Inline Tasks• Sprint goals

• Action items from a meeting

• Non-technical users

Build ItExtra-sprint work

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• Confluence Notifications• No inbox clutter

• Things that need doing

• Things that need reading

• Personal Notes

Build ItNotifications - All in a days work

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Add personal todos

Mark notifications for followup

Track Confluence tasks

Add in-line tasks in pages

@mention to assign tasks

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Align

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• Confluence Boxes• What’s being messaged

• Forces us to come around simple ideas and messages

AlignGet on Message

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Recap!Dream It Plan It

Build It Launch It

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Recap!Dream It Plan It

Build It Launch It

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Recap!Dream It Plan It

Build It Launch It

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Recap!Dream It Plan It

Build It Launch It

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Recap!Dream It Plan It

Build It Launch It

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