Distributed teams put additional strains on what is fundamentally a communication and collaboration challenge in building software. Matt Ryall, senior development manager for Confluence, shares his experience on how Atlassian and several of our clients are using collaboration tools like Confluence and HipChat to help overcome geographic boundaries, and ship great software on time.
30. Confluence
Collaboration Central
• Knowledge sharing & collaboration for
your team!
• Write documents, share them!
• Best online editing experience
Create-share-discover cycle
Create-share-discover cycle Recent releases
• Confluence 4.0 – new WYSIWYG editor,
macro placeholders, Share button!
• Confluence 4.1 – page layouts!
• Confluence 4.2 – WYSIWYG templates!
• Confluence 4.3 – mobile UI, “Like” button,
popular content, in-page notifications
Confluence 2013 goals
• Lustworthy – beautiful and easy to use!
• Onboarding – easy to get started!
• Enterprise – robustness & scalability
Confluence 2013 goals
• Insert diagram here
Confluence 5.0
• Redesigned with Atlassian Design
Guidelines (ADG)!
• New header, integrated app switcher!
• New typography, colours, icons!
• Space navigation sidebar!
• Create experience!
• Enterprise user management improvements
Confluence 5.0
Sidebar
navigation
New
header
New typography,
icons, etc.
31. Atlassian Engineering Values!
How does build software?!
3
The Prime Directive:
DELIVER CUSTOMER VALUE
Congrats - you were picked out of 72
companies!!
• Pilot project. A developer gave the demo and a good heated
discussion with the team.!
• Company values and delivery focus!
• Ability to scale with Atlassian and think big!
• Vietnam education and hard working culture (albeit language
is still a challenge given how quickly we collaborate)!
• Design agency and eye for design and user experience!
!
• Challenges: English, products that last for ever, including all our
teams in the Atlassian culture.
4
What’s made successful?!
What’s made successful?
1.Software development is changing!
2.Business model innovation!
3.Long-term thinking
Where is heading?!
Where is heading?
1.Every company is a software company!
2.Beyond the dev team!
i. “every knowledge worker using Atlassian every day”!
3.“Your margin is our opportunity”
i. Ubiquitous
in 2014!
32. Engagement model
Dev foundation
expanding core dev capability,
bug fixing, feature team
Prod
Mgr
Existing team
New, remote
team
Design
& UX
Dev
Mgr
Dev
TL
Dev
Dev
BA
Dev
Mgr
33. Engagement model
Dev foundation
expanding core dev capability,
bug fixing, feature team
Prod
Mgr
Existing team
New, remote
team
Design
& UX
Dev
Mgr
Dev
TL
Dev
Dev
BA
Dev
Mgr
Product decisions
process in place, making product
decisions more independently
Dev
TL
Dev
Dev
Prod
Mgr
Prod
Mgr
Dev
Mgr
Design
UX
Dev
Mgr
34. Engagement model
Dev foundation
expanding core dev capability,
bug fixing, feature team
Prod
Mgr
Existing team
New, remote
team
Design
& UX
Dev
Mgr
Dev
TL
Dev
Dev
BA
Dev
Mgr
Product decisions
process in place, making product
decisions more independently
Dev
TL
Dev
Dev
Prod
Mgr
Prod
Mgr
Dev
Mgr
Design
UX
Dev
Mgr
Autonomous
owns execution against strategy
for their own features/products
Prod
Mgr
TL
Dev
Dev
Dev
Dev
Mgr
Design
& UX
90. Key takeaways: #atlassian
1. Meet the team
2. Share your plan and your values
3. Frequent face-to-face contact at all levels
4. Communicate asynchronously
5. Track Decisions
6. Reinforce the culture you want
7. Be overly inclusive
8. Measure for success
9. Help the team find their own identity