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- 6 Strategies to Uncover Growth Opportunities for Your Business
Claire Maynard, Growth PMM, JIRA Software & Bitbucket, Atlassian
- Black Belt Tips for JIRA Software
Brydie McCoy, Software Development Team Lead, Atlassian
Nick Pellow, Development Manager JIRA Software, Atlassian
- Essentials of Agile User Story Mapping at Twitter
John Walpole, Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Twitter
- How Agile and JIRA Software are Changing a US Government Agency
US Government Employees, US Government Agency
- Managing the Chaos of Client Collaboration and Physical Deployment
Ben McChesney, Chief Technology Officer / Managing Director, Helios Interactive
Eric Ruud, Technical Producer, Helios Interactive
- Portfolio for JIRA & Kanban: How Thrillist Manages Their Product Roadmap
Mike Solomon, Product Management Lead, Thrillist Media Group
- (Re)Discover JIRA Core: Tricks That Make a BIG Difference
Sheri Atienza, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Atlassian
Daniel Kerris, Designer, Atlassian
- Scaling Agile in an Un-SAFe World
Steve Graykowski, Director of Program Management, DocuSign
Kunal Arora, Senior Program Manager, Docusign
- The Art of Building a Roadmap
Sherif Mansour, Principal Product Manager, Atlassian
- The Future of QA at Atlassian
Mark Hrynczak, Cloud QA Manager, Atlassian
- Wonders of Portfolio = Long Term Planning + Agility
Andre Bickford, Software Engineering Manager, comScore
Rubyna K. Brenden, Manager, Technical Project Management, comScore
6 Strategies to Uncover Growth Opportunities for Your Business
Claire Maynard
Growth PMM, JIRA Software & Bitbucket, Atlassian
Claire Maynard
Growth PMM, JIRA Software & Bitbucket, Atlassian
Claire Maynard has worked as a B2B growth marketer for over six years, driving strategies to increase customer and user acquisition, activation, retention and cross-sell. She's been with Atlassian for almost three years, working on JIRA Software and Bitbucket's product marketing team, focusing on growth programs and experimentation across the funnel. She's an expert in A/B testing, conversion rate optimization, search engine optimization, and go-to-market strategy. In her free time, she enjoys international travel, food (both cooking and eating) and running.
If there is one commonality between all the fast growth company success stories like Airbnb, Uber, or HubSpot, it's that they're all crazy about measuring and tracking their data and numbers. In order to grow fast, you have to know where your growth comes from and where you lose. However, there's a second part of the equation that is equally important, yet less discussed and that is the qualitative side to growth. Companies also need to be able to understand the why, why they're growing (or not), and that answer is not always found in data. In this talk, I will describe both the quantitative and qualitative ways you can uncover growth opportunities for your business through experimentation. Experimentation can help you build and validate your product's roadmap and ensure you're focusing your resources on what will bring growth.
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Black Belt Tips for JIRA Software
Brydie McCoy
Software Development Team Lead, Atlassian
Brydie McCoy
Software Development Team Lead, Atlassian
Brydie has been with Atlassian for over 9 years. She spent the majority of that as a developer on the Bamboo team, until 18 months ago she took on the role as Team Lead for JIRA Software. Not only is Brydie responsible for the development of JIRA Software, she also has spent a lot of time adjusting the tool and processes to scale with her ever growing team.
Nick Pellow
Development Manager JIRA Software, Atlassian
Nick Pellow
Development Manager JIRA Software, Atlassian
Nick came to Atlassian via the acquisition of Cenqua in 2007. He worked within developer tools on Clover, FishEye, Crucible and Bitbucket Server. During this time he managed to build JIRA Mobile Connect (an iOS SDK for creating issues in JIRA) and more recently win ShipIt for improving the UX of Application Links. He has recently joined the JIRA Software team as Development Manager. In a previous life, Nick built the very first SMS voting system for the Euro Vision Song Contest, when he was working in Munich, Germany.
JIRA Software is an extremely flexible and powerful tool, which can be used in a variety of ways. As 9-year Atlassian veterans, we'll outline the innovative ways JIRA Software is being used within Atlassian, and what features our teams find most useful to enhance their processes.
We'll cover practical tips, such as how we run Scrum and Kanban, and how we've customized projects and boards to best plan, track, and ship software with the precision of a black-belt judo master.
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Essentials of Agile User Story Mapping at Twitter
John Walpole
Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Twitter
John Walpole
Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Twitter
#Work: @TwitterTPM team as a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager. Follow me @JWalpole Love building high performing teams to make scalable automation systems to drive costs down, deliver features with increasingly complex requirements and improve reliability of the worlds largest services; Twitter, Vine & Periscope iOS & Android Apps with backing platform services, Outlook, Office365, Hotmail & OneDrive. #Play: #biking, #hiking, #flying, #bitcoin, #lgbtq, #learning, #animalrights, @007, @WooflesW & @MangoJMango. Opinions mine !=TWTR.
In this session you'll learn how agile teams at Twitter create user story maps to better understand their customers and communicate delivery milestones with internal stakeholders. John will walk through the practice of story mapping and share how a product manager can effectively run a story mapping session with their own team.
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How Agile and JIRA Software are Changing a US Government Agency
US Government Employees
US Government Agency
Our lifecycle engineering support has to ensure that combat, weapon, radar, and surface surveillance systems work effectively together.
Learn how we have integrated Agile practices using JIRA into this ever-changing operational process.
In our large, and highly regulated organization, we have overcome the institutional momentum inherent in the waterfall method, and are developing real operational benefits to our teams to better respond to changing requirements and unplanned events.
Managing the Chaos of Client Collaboration and Physical Deployment
Ben McChesney
Chief Technology Officer / Managing Director, Helios Interactive
Ben McChesney
Chief Technology Officer / Managing Director, Helios Interactive
In his free time he is an open source advocate, visual artist, and a heck of a dancer. Someday he hopes to use design and open source to make the world a better place.
Eric Ruud
Technical Producer, Helios Interactive
Eric Ruud
Technical Producer, Helios Interactive
Whether he’s planning a sprint, triaging a bug, figuring out how to pack the tour van, or cheering for the Golden State Warriors, Eric is most in his element when he is supporting great people in pursuit of great things.
At Helios Interactive when we collaborate with our clients we face an array of challenges: intangible ideas without a clear execution, short timelines, physical deployments, environmental factors, working with new technologies, and clients unfamiliar with digital. Structured workflows are essential for success, but improvisation is unavoidable in key areas. Atlassian tools help us excel in both structured process and quick improvisational thinking, ultimately resulting in better user experiences and happier clients.
Portfolio for JIRA & Kanban: How Thrillist Manages Their Product Roadmap
Mike Solomon
Product Management Lead, Thrillist Media Group
Mike Solomon
Product Management Lead, Thrillist Media Group
Mike Solomon is the Product Management Lead at Thrillist Media Group where he is responsible for managing the product roadmap, streamlining productivity, and overseeing product lifecycles for each team. He started his career in fintech, building secure online portals for the world’s largest hedge fund administrations and subsequently joined Thrillist Media Group as a Product Manager for the ecommerce site, JackThreads. Mike holds an undergraduate degree in Information Science from University at Albany and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Global Operations Management from Stony Brook University. Outside of work, you can catch him at a rock show in NYC, or sailing on the Great South Bay.
We at Thrillist need to move fast to stay competitive. That's why we use Kanban. We also need to keep a grip on the big picture, and that's why we use Portfolio for JIRA. Can Kanban work together with high-level planning? Yes, it can.
Dive into the Thrillist process of planning and executing our product roadmap with Portfolio. Learn how the combination of Kanban methodologies with Portfolio can enable a team to become fast, flexible, and forward-thinking.
For more on Thrillist and their Atlassian setup, check out Mike's website: http://mike-solomon.com/abstract/
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(Re)Discover JIRA Core: Tricks That Make a BIG Difference
Sheri Atienza
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Atlassian
Sheri Atienza
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Atlassian
Sheri Atienza is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Atlassian, responsible for the brand and marketing strategy for JIRA Core, a project and task management solution for business teams. Sheri holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her education has uniquely positioned her for a career balancing technology and creativity through product marketing, allowing her to flex the muscles on both sides of her brain. Before Atlassian, Sheri did product marketing for various adtech companies, such as ShareThis, YuMe and AT&T. Outside of work, she volunteers with Reading Partners, loves to travel, hike and snowboard.
Daniel Kerris
Designer, Atlassian
Daniel Kerris
Designer, Atlassian
Daniel is a designer at Atlassian, working on making JIRA Core the simply powerful project and task management solution for business teams. Originally from an industrial design background, Daniel has worked in many creative fields from traditional product design to interactive artwork, continually being drawn towards the intersection of technology and design.
What do nontechnical teams, such as marketing, operations, HR, finance and legal have in common? Even though their processes might be different they can all use JIRA Core to track contracts, candidates, campaigns, approvals, and much more. But there are so many things you can tweak when setting up your team process: workflows, permissions, projects, issue types, etc.
Whether you’re new to JIRA Core, or a power user, we’ll share the best practices for business teams, and give examples of how teams use JIRA Core effectively. You'll learn how to:
- Set up JIRA Core to match your business team's process
- Set up user permissions for approval processes
- Manage issues across different projects
- Handle multiple milestone due dates
Expect tons of examples and aha moments when diving deep into the core of JIRA.
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Scaling Agile in an Un-SAFe World
Steve Graykowski
Director of Program Management, DocuSign
Steve Graykowski
Director of Program Management, DocuSign
Senior technology leader focused on using Agile frameworks for Program and Project Management in new product development. Specialties: Agile, Cloud Computing, Scrum (CSM), Kanban, Lean-Agile, Program Management, Project Management
Kunal Arora
Senior Program Manager, Docusign
Kunal Arora
Senior Program Manager, Docusign
Kunal Arora has over 12 years of Program Management experience in helping organizations of various sizes embrace Agile as a mindset. He is currently responsible for launching Web & Mobile programs at DocuSign, and has established key processes within the organization to deliver business value on a quarterly basis. Kunal studied in the field of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University located in Philadelphia PA, and developed a strong passion for Mobile technologies while working for small startups in Los Angeles, CA. In his spare time, he enjoys spending quality time with his wife and 1 year old son at home in San Jose, CA.
Agile processes work great for small teams, but the challenge comes when trying to scale up. Especially when your team is spread out across different locations and time zones.
At DocSign we hit that wall, too. That's why we've developed our own Product Development Methodology useful for teams working in an enterprise SaaS environment. While it's not perfect it helped us stay agile by incorporating design thinking, agile development and release management into our process.
Join us to learn how we've used JIRA and Confluence to achieve our goals, and how you can do the same, too.
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The Art of Building a Roadmap
Sherif Mansour
Principal Product Manager, Atlassian
Sherif Mansour
Principal Product Manager, Atlassian
Sherif Mansour has 14 years of experience in software development. He is currently a Principal Product Manager for Atlassian responsible for the cloud platform. Sherif thinks building simple products is hard and so is writing a simple, short bio.
The process of defining a roadmap is arguably one of the most difficult but important things a product manager has to do. Far too often roadmaps are built without the complete picture in mind, without the right timing, in silos, or are misdirected. How then can we ensure we’re doing it right? Is there really such a thing as an agile roadmap?
This talk will draw from lessons learnt building product to provide practical tips and techniques enabling you to understand roadmap inputs, plan with different perspectives in mind, optimise for learning, communicate and set roadmap goals as well as find agility when the landscape around you changes.
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The Future of QA at Atlassian
Mark Hrynczak
Cloud QA Manager, Atlassian
Mark Hrynczak
Cloud QA Manager, Atlassian
Mark is the Cloud QA Manager at Atlassian. He was the first person hired as a QA Engineer, and has helped to define and implement the processes to help dev teams produce quality at speed. A good team can always be better, and his ongoing aim is to drive the evolution of the quality assistance model, and help teams to continuously improve towards excellence.
“Quality at Speed” is Atlassian’s approach to QA, and we are constantly evolving what that means and how it translates to actual dev team processes. Our developers can confidently take on testing activities, while our QA Engineers tackle larger, harder, and bolder challenges. Teams can ship better features, faster, and reach ambitious quality improvement goals.
We'll talk about how our team has embraced this mindset, how this changes our role in dev teams, and the results we want to achieve. We'll cover the different ways that quality can be defined, the importance of fast deployments, and how we work with teams like DevOps, Growth and Customer Insights to help our dev teams and ultimately benefit our users.
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Wonders of Portfolio = Long Term Planning + Agility
Andre Bickford
Software Engineering Manager, comScore
Andre Bickford
Software Engineering Manager, comScore
Andre is a Software Engineering Manager at comScore who leads a team of front-end developers building the UIs comScore's customers use to make decisions about when and where to buy advertising. His team doesn't let him do coding any more, so these days he's most passionate about building high functioning software teams, and giving them all the right tools and just enough process so that they can be successful and happy. In a fast-paced environment with frequent and demanding changes Portfolio is one of those tools that's helped his team stay on track. When he's not working with his team, he can mostly likely be found on a side of a mountain mountain strapped to a pair of skis and chasing the next big snowstorm.
Rubyna K. Brenden
Manager, Technical Project Management, comScore
Rubyna K. Brenden
Manager, Technical Project Management, comScore
Ruby takes a creative approach coupled with Industry standard best practices when it comes to running her projects.Her background in computer science and technology management with over ten years of experience in software development has added to her success and passion for technology.Her philosophy is that one should want to walk into work knowing it’ll be a fun and challenging day. Ruby is involved in various Initiatives promoting women in technology in effort to change the reality we live in today. She enjoys travel, food, and the outdoors in her free time.
At comScore, we’ve planned a year’s worth of work for an organization of 140+ members across multiple teams, with several business units all collaborating on various projects. And like many, we’re an organization trying to stay agile along the way. Learn about our successes and lessons that got us to this point, and how implementing Portfolio for JIRA has changed the way we plan.
We’ll go into how we do Capacity Planning, People Management, Schedule Management, and Reporting, with insight from both a PM and Engineering Manager. Find out how teams can leverage Portfolio to strategically plan and quickly adapt to a changing landscape, and track progress on their projects.
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