This document discusses passion for software and Atlassian. It highlights that passion is needed to start with a vision, work with great people, have freedom and respect in the workplace. It also discusses using a wiki to share knowledge fast, getting feedback through public issue trackers, and the importance of passionate developers and teams for innovation. The document promotes breaking work into small pieces, failing fast, and allowing time for innovation through independent work periods.

1. Passion
for Software

2. That‘s
me
Sven Peters
Atlassian Ambassador
speters@atlassian.com
@svenpet
svenpet.com

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Start with Passion

9. two
It takes

10. start
with a vision

11. great people
work & fun
freedom
respect
great place to work

12. Pick the right
People

13. Atlassian Office SF
great place to work

14. Passion for
GTD

15. get Information
fast
learning how to
fly a helicopter

16. get Information
fast
Atlassian Office
Sydney

17. It's all in the
Wiki
lots of information

18. open discussions
company
updates
Wiki project planing
sharing knowledge
develop ideas fast

19. It's not just a
Wiki
Culture
it's a

20. It's not only a
Wiki
People
it's the

21. start with the
Wiki

22. Passion to
Fail

23. Failure is not an option
It's a step

24. got Feedback?

25. ack
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Cycle
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#short
#direct

26. Feedback
through public Issue Tracker and
public support forum

27. Feedback
through customer interviews
and paper prototype

28. Feedback
through dogfooding

29. Feedback
through OnDemand

30. Feedback
through automatic reports

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Information
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Alistair Cockburn

34. Passionate
Developers

35. Developers

37. Passionate
Developers

38. Passionate
Teams

39. small Teams
cross functional Teams
distributed Teams
independent Teams

40. Stash Team

41. Stash Team
max. feedback cycle
good for planning
7 weeks
ideas to market

42. missed deadline?
wait for
next release

43. break down into small pieces

44. risk first

45. Feature
Branch
~2 Days

46. Pull
Request
?

47. It's like code I
reviews have to
share my
code?
What are
Pull Requests?
It's an
online discussion
about code

48. Pull
Request
+1

49. Pull
Request
+1 +1
= merge

50. The
Team
is using
to build

51. onDemand
7 weeks

52. onDemand
1 week

53. The
Passion for
Innovation

54. To achieve great things, two things
are needed:
a plan and not quite enough time.
Leaonard Bernstein

55. Moti vation
Inno
through
vation

56. Idea Brown Bags

57. Plan Sprint Planning

58. coolest
This... is the longest day of my life

59. Go Code
:;while [ $? -eq 0 ];do nc -vlp 8080 -
c'(r=read;e=echo;$r a b c;z=$r;while [ ${#z} -gt
2 ];do $r z;done;f=`$e $b|sed 's/[^az0-9_.-]//
gi'`;h="HTTP/1.0";o="$h 200 OKr
n";c="Content";if [ -z $f ];then($e $o;ls|(while
$r n;do if [ -f "$n" ]; then $e "<a href="/$n
">`ls -gh $n`</a><br>";fi;done););elif [ -f $f
];then $e "$o$c-Type: `file -ib $f`n$c-Length:
`stat -c%s$f`";$e;cat $f;else $e -e "$h 404 Not
Foundnn404n";fi)';done

60. Show Winner

61. Innovation Motivation

62. Crapy Code Not maintainable
unstable Feature No final Product

63. Good Code It's maintainable
20% time
stable Feature polished for Product

64. innovation Time
independent Time
free Time

65. Conflicts
Dependencies
Workload
Sprint Goals

66. Innovation
Week
innovation Time
planned Time
team Time

67. Software made Down
Passion for Passion to
Start with Passion
GTD
Fail
The
Passionate Passion for Passion for
Teams Innovation t-shirts

68. Passion
keeps you going

69. Passion
gets you up again

70. Passion
drives us

71. let Passion
grow

72. Thank you
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