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Monday, June 18, 12
Connecting Cross-functional
               Teams During Product
               Development with Confluence

              Wesley Walser
              Javascript Developer, Atlassian



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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.
                                                           Designer, NASA Lunar Module


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Our Version of The Story
                      Dream It            Plan It




                      Build It            Launch It




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

               • Dream                              • Build It
                      • Get It Down                 • Launch
                      • Hash It Out                  • Align

                      • Mock It Up

               • Plan It


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Approach
               • What product
                 development really
                 looks like at Atlassian
               • 4.2 Case Study
               • Q&A



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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.

                        #summit12




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Get It Down
               ‘New’ is a constant
                      • Customers
                      • Blogs
                      • Product Managers
                      • Founders
                      • Other products



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Get It Down
               Confluence - No Stress
               • People push good
                 ideas forward
                      (given the right culture)

               • Confluence Helps
                      • Shares
                      • Popular Content

               • Very few lists
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Get It Down
               Engineering lead organization
        • Code Talks
        • Prototypes
        • Previously known as Major
          Shipping Company Day
        • 20%




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Hash It Out




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Hash It Out
               Overlap with get it down
               • Immediate
                      • Comments
                      • Likes
                      • Shares
                      • Mentions
                      • HipChat integration


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Hash It Out
               You say ˈkäment, I say flame war
               • Collaborative!
                      • Constructive?
                      • Important stuff bubbles

               • Balance is cultural
                      • Not software
                      • Not enforced through
                        process or authority
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Hash It Out
               That engineering culture thing again
               • Shipped!
                      • You what?
                      • Where?

               • Speakeasy
                      • Find ways to safely
                        prototype

               • Comment over meeting
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Mock It Up




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Mock It Up
               Brief to wireframe - Into the light
               • Beginning of Design
                      • Nope

               • Visual but not too real
               • Tool of the trade
                      •


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Mock It Up
               Wireframe to design
               • Style Guides
               • Discussion artifacts
               • Tools of the trade
                      • Fisheye
                      • Stash



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Plan It




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Plan It
               In whatever way you like
               • Atlassian
                      • Polyglot Agile

               • Confluence team
                      • Kanban




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Plan It
               Tools
               • Tools of the trade
                      • JIRA
                      • GreenHopper
                      • Confluence
                      • Team Calendars
               • Atlassian.com/resources/
                 better-together
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Build It




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Build It
               Work work
               • Doneness
                      • Micro - JIRA
                      • Macro - Confluence

               • FedEx & 20%




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Build It
               Extra-sprint work
               • Inline Tasks
                      • Sprint goals
                      • Action items from a
                        meeting
                      • Non-technical users




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Build It
               Notifications - All in a days work
               • Confluence Notifications
                      • No inbox clutter
                      • Things that need doing
                      • Things that need reading
                      • Personal Notes



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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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Align
               Get on Message
               • Confluence Boxes
                      • What’s being messaged
                      • Forces us to come around
                        simple ideas and
                        messages




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Recap!
                      Dream It   Plan It




                      Build It   Launch It




Monday, June 18, 12
Recap!
                      Dream It   Plan It




                      Build It   Launch It




Monday, June 18, 12
Recap!
                      Dream It   Plan It




                      Build It   Launch It




Monday, June 18, 12
Recap!
                      Dream It   Plan It




                      Build It   Launch It




Monday, June 18, 12
Recap!
                      Dream It   Plan It




                      Build It   Launch It




Monday, June 18, 12

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Connecting Cross-functional Teams During Product Development with Confluence