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A lightning talk about lightning innovation

Atlassianʼs FedEx Days

Seb Ruiz, Atlassian

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What is FedEx?• Variation on 20% time

• Work must be skewed towards Atlassian

• 24 hours to work on project

• “Scratch that itch!”

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Insanity!

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• And the company approves?

• But itʼs so expensive!• 300 developer days• 40 pizzas• 600 beers• Thatʼs a lot of time and money!

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Benefits• For Developers• Improves morale – we have fun!

• Letʼs us scratch that itch

• Breaks the routine of work

• Chance to impress peers – bragging rights!

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Benefits• For Atlassian• Improves morale!

• Fosters creativity – unleash all the locked up smarts

• Innovations can improve the products

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How It Works• Come up with an idea that relates to Atlassian

• Write it up! – this is the “FedEx Shipment Order”

• 2pm Thursday – start coding frantically!

• 3pm Friday – “FedEx Delivery” demonstrations

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Noteworthy Mentions• Bamboo – Broken Build Tracking (Brydie McCoy)

• FishEye – Side-by-side Diff (Nic Venegas)

• JIRA – Video Capture (Erik van Zijst)

• XProduct – Chrome History Extension (Chris Kiehl)

• FishEye – Stacktrace Analyzer (Seb Ruiz)

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Something highly requested?• Brydie McCoy• Bamboo plugin for tracking build breakages• Assigns users to be responsible for breakages

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Bamboo: Broken Build Tracking

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Improving an existing feature?• Nic Venegas• Better side-by-side diff view in FishEye

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FishEye: Side-by-Side Diff

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FishEye: Side-by-Side Diff

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A revolutionary JIRA plugin?• Erik van Zijst• JIRA video capture support

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JIRA: Video Capture Plugin

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JIRA: Video Capture Plugin

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A cross-product tool?• Chris Kiehl• Atlassian Chrome plugin

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Cross-Product: Chrome Plugin• Keeps track of history across all Atlassian products• Searchable with screenshots!

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A totally new feature...• Seb Ruiz• FishEye stack-analysis tool

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FishEye: Stacktrace Analysis Tool

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FishEye: Stacktrace Analysis Tool

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Finally…• FedEx is good for everyone

• We absolutely love it

• Drives innovation in the company

• Some are incorporated into products, most are not

• Start your own FedEx• (become really really popular at work)

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