Connecting Cross-functional Teams During Product Development with Confluence
Javascript Developer, Atlassian
Wesley Walser
Our Version of The Story
Dream It Plan It
Build It Launch It
• Dream
• Get It Down
• Hash It Out
• Mock It Up
• Plan It
• Build It
• Launch
• Align
Where We Use Confluence(And what I’ll cover in this talk)
Designer, NASA Lunar Module
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.
• What product development reallylooks like at Atlassian
• 4.2 Case Study
• Q&A
Approach
What Product Development
Really Looks Like
Get It Down
#atlassiansum
mit
New is a
constant.
• Customers
• Blogs
• Product Managers
• Founders
• Other products
Get It Down‘New’ is a constant
Get It DownConfluence - No Stress
• People push good ideas forward(given the right culture)
• Confluence Helps
• Shares
• Popular Content
• Very few lists
• Code Talks
• Prototypes
• Previously known as FedEx Day
• 20%
Get It DownEngineering lead organization
Hash It Out
• Immediate
• Comments
• Likes
• Shares
• Mentions
• HipChat integration
Hash It OutOverlap with get it down
• Collaborative!
• Constructive?
• Important stuff bubbles
• Balance is cultural
• Not software
• Not enforced through process or authority
Hash It OutYou say ˈkäment, I say flame war
• Shipped!
• You what?
• Where?
• Speakeasy
• Find ways to safely prototype
• Comment over meeting
Hash It OutThat engineering culture thing again
Mock It Up
• Beginning of Design
• Nope
• Visual but not too real
• Tool of the trade
Mock It UpBrief to wireframe - Into the light
• Style Guides
• Discussion artifacts
• Tools of the trade
• Fisheye
• Stash
Mock It UpWireframe to design
Plan It
• Atlassian
• Polyglot Agile
• Confluence team
• Kanban
Plan ItIn whatever way you like
• Tools of the trade
• JIRA
• GreenHopper
• Confluence
• Team Calendars
• Atlassian.com/resources/better-together
Plan ItTools
Build It
• Doneness
• Micro - JIRA
• Macro - Confluence
• FedEx & 20%
Build ItWork work
• Inline Tasks
• Sprint goals
• Action items from a meeting
• Non-technical users
Build ItExtra-sprint work
• Confluence Notifications
• No inbox clutter
• Things that need doing
• Things that need reading
• Personal Notes
Build ItNotifications - All in a days work
Add personal todos
Mark notifications for followup
Track Confluence tasks
Add in-line tasks in pages
@mention to assign tasks
Align
• Confluence Boxes
• What’s being messaged
• Forces us to come around simple ideas and messages
AlignGet on Message
Recap!
Dream It Plan It
Build It Launch It