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DANIEL GREEN • CTO • WIKISTRAT • @WSDAN
The Extraordinarily Motivated Team:Gamification and the Atlassian Tools
What Is Wikistrat
Gamification 101
What is Gamification?
You Probably Played A Game To Get Here
Player TypesElements of Gamification
B A D G E S
P O I N T S
Game Mechanics
L E A D E R B O A R D S
Game Mechanics (P-B-L)Elements of Gamification
A C C E S S
S TAT U S
Reward Mechanics
P O W E R
S T U F F
Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)Elements of Gamification
Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)Elements of Gamification
Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)Elements of Gamification
Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)Elements of Gamification
Gamification with Atlasssian Tools
Level One: Plugins
Level One: Confluence Questions
Level Two: JQL
• Who closed the most issues this week?• Who had the highest number of issues close before the due date?• Which project had the least number of bugs re-opened this month?
Level Two: Confluence Space Activity
How We Did It
Gamifying Confluence
Version 1: Scan The DatabaseGamifying Confluence
• PHP script which was run as a cron job every minute.• Read the last minute of activity• Kept a daily and overall total for each user• We set a scale that would indicate levels• We capped the daily amount to prevent cheating• A leaderboard was added to the Dashboard
Version 2: Categories And The “Active User Badge”Gamifying Confluence
Version 2: Putting Gamification Front And CenterGamifying Confluence
Version 3: A Gamification EngineGamifying Confluence
• Good example: https://github.com/flowdock/flowdock-confluence-plugin
… In Closing
Gamification isn’t an all or nothing
strategy.
Be careful giving tangible rewards.
People know the different between
Fun™ and Fun.
DANIEL GREEN • CTO • WIKISTRAT • @WSDAN
Thank you!
Image Credits
• Dopamine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine • Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-05-19/• Grocery Miles: https://www.webflyer.com/extras/funnies/index.php?toon=22• Frequent Flyer Cards: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/396105729699402348/• Bartle’s Player Types: http://frankcaron.com/2011/07/on-mapping-bartles-player-
types-to-employees/• Frequent Flyer Card: http://biztravelguru.com/2011/10/qantas-platinum-one-frequent-
flyer-membership-full-details-announced/• Flagship Checkin: http://ordtoanywhere.com/2013/07/19/the-new-american-airlines-
flagship-check-in-at-ord/
