xero-ing in' on global collaboration during hyper-growth
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Anika Rani @neekseeka Technical Business Analyst, Xero
‘Xero-ing’ in on global collaboration during hyper-growth
DENVER NEW YORK
SAN FRANCISCO
MILTON KEYNES
LONDON
CANBERRA
MELBOURNE
SYDNEY AUCKLAND
WELLINGTON
SINGAPORE
Global small business platform and ecosystem with over 700,000 subscribers
#1 Most innovative growth companies 2014 & 2015
Best Accounting SoftwareCLOUDSWAVE AWARDS
Financial Product of the YearUK CLOUD AWARDS
TaxTouch Most InnovativeBANKING TECH AWARDS
Top-choice accounting softwarePC WORLD
Our growth
1,450+
717,000
200 1k 7k 17k36k
78k
157k
284k
475k
27 50 56 90 113194
382
758
1161
$39MREVENUE
REVENUE$258M
SUBSCRIBERS
XERO STAFF
1,450+
27 50 56 90 113194
382
758
1161
XERO STAFF
Human Champion Challenge Ownership Beautiful
Challenges
Challenges
1 2 3 4
On-boarding & Up-skilling
Standardisation vs. Freedom
Supportchannel
Atlassian Suite Performance
Rapid hiring & effort to on-board
Knowledge sharing for new starters
Continuous learning & up-skilling
Exponential speed of development
Managing the on-boarding and up-skilling of teams
1
Training in small, targeted groups
Surface content, make it easily accessible
Establish a training support channel
1
Internal Atlassian knowledge base for self-help
Managing the on-boarding and up-skilling of teams
Standardizing while scaling
Constantly evolving, dynamic teams
Openness to other systems & tools
Achieving a balance between standardization and freedom
2
1450+ Users
185 Projects
62 Customfields
44 Workflows
13 14 15 16
JIRA Usage
77
723
1126
51
120
48
60
38 23
Integrate disparate systems using Atlasssian Marketplace
Common and flexible workflows
Track and review usage statistics
2
Achieving a balance between standardization and freedom
Establishing an effective support channel for stakeholder engagement
No single place for directing requests
Requests were missed
No visibility of request numbers
SLAs did not exist
3
Establish a single funnel for requests
Leverage customised issue collectors
Set response times and expectations
3
Report, report, report
Establishing an effective support channel for stakeholder engagement
Increase in number of global users at Xero
Increase in customisations and add-ons
Little visibility of server performance
Maintaining the Atlassian Suite for stable performance
4
Be proactive: Implement monitoring tools - Java Melody
Be reactive: Establish an Outage Response Process
Educate the team
Maintaining the Atlassian Suite for stable performance
4
Takeaways
Design with scale in mind Deliver value from change
Create a common language
Align don’t silo
Ensure effective operations
Group thinking & review
Human Champion Challenge Ownership Beautiful
Beautiful accounting software
www.xero.com