Watch 2019 Sessions
- Enabling Business Management with Jira
Brian Bobryk, Product owner engineering management tools, Bloomberg LP
- Concept to Launch: The Ultimate Confluence Guide for Software Teams
Sherif Mansour, Distinguished Product Manager, Atlassian
- The Journey to Portfolio 3.0
Rhys Christian, Product Management, Atlassian
- Ultimate Dogfooding: Behind the Scenes of Building the New Jira
James Rotanson, Product Designer, Atlassian
Erika Sa, Product Manager, Atlassian
- Harnessing Your Product Manager Superpowers with Trello, Confluence, and Jira
Phil Oye, Principal Product Manager, Atlassian
- How We Managed a Multi-Year, Multi-Drug Clinical Trial
Jessi Smith, Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, Washington University
Michael March, Atlassian Solution Architect, Isos Technology
- Like Herding Cats: How to Get Engineers to Update Their Status
Jane Allard, Director of Engineering, Akamai
Shane Colledge, Senior Technical Program Manager, Akamai
- Estimation as Uncertainty Reduction
Michael Godeck, Business Analyst
- Inside Atlassian: Focusing on Customer Outcomes in Spite of Complexity
Matthew Watson, Bitbucket Pipelines Development Manager, Atlassian
- The Secret to Nailing Project Estimations
Albert Wang, Developer, Atlassian
Enabling Business Management with Jira
Brian Bobryk
Product owner engineering management tools, Bloomberg LP
Brian Bobryk
Product owner engineering management tools, Bloomberg LP
Working in a mature, established organization can present challenges in adapting Agile practices at the team level, while also collecting and providing information about various projects and initiatives that senior management requires to manage the overall business. Agile frameworks, such as SAFe, may offer a useful way forward, but it may not align directly to existing business planning and management practices. New concepts, such as value streams, are introduced, while traditional concepts such as projects and programs disappear. Learn how we created our own Scaled Agile Framework - managed using Jira - that leverages the best of both worlds — supporting traditional business management practices without hindering the agility of our software development teams!
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Concept to Launch: The Ultimate Confluence Guide for Software Teams
Sherif Mansour
Distinguished Product Manager, Atlassian
Sherif Mansour
Distinguished Product Manager, Atlassian
Sherif Mansour has 15 years of experience in software development. He is currently a Distinguished Product Manager for Atlassian. For 6 years he was been responsible for Confluence, a popular social collaboration tool for product teams. Today Sherif heads up the cross-product cloud experience for all of Atlassian’s products. Areas of expertise include agile product development. Sherif thinks building simple products is hard and so is writing a simple, short bio.
Building a shared understanding is the key to success of any software team. From concept to launch, I'll share the ways to maximize efforts and build tribal knowledge throughout the entire software development process for every type of project.
Learn from the teams who use Confluence and Jira Software every day to ideate, discover, strategize, define problems and requirements, communicate to stakeholders, and more!
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The Journey to Portfolio 3.0
Rhys Christian
Product Management, Atlassian
A lot has changed in the ways teams work since Portfolio for Jira joined the Atlassian family. Team structures have shifted, and more and more teams are doing their work in Jira with greater agility. They have more autonomy but must stay connected to their adjacent teams and communicate their plans effectively with stakeholders. Portfolio for Jira can help you on this journey.
If you’ve ever used Portfolio in the past, and are curious about how we’ve reinvented the product, or are looking for an agile tool to help you plan, collaborate, and get visibility across teams in Jira, then this session is for you! In it, we’ll share how we used Portfolio ourselves, setting product direction, identifying the right solution scope, winning internal adoption, and taking your feedback when it came to planning our roadmap.
Missed this session? Check out the Introducing Portfolio for Jira 3.0 webinar here.
Ultimate Dogfooding: Behind the Scenes of Building the New Jira
James Rotanson
Product Designer, Atlassian
James Rotanson
Product Designer, Atlassian
James is a Product Designer working on simplifying the Jira configuration experience. He specialises in bringing abstract concepts into high-fidelity experiences that ultimately champions the user. Passionate about bridging the gap between design and development, his work has been featured by Google Singapore and Vivid Sydney. You can usually find him sketching away or checking out the latest ramen scene around town.
Erika Sa
Product Manager, Atlassian
Erika Sa
Product Manager, Atlassian
Erika is a Product Manager with a mission to get every customer working smarter with Jira Software. Previously she worked on the new boards experience in Jira Software Cloud’s next-gen project. Currently she’s focused on building new advanced planning features into Jira Software. When she’s not working, you can find her practicing handstands wherever possible.
At Atlassian, we’ve been dog-fooding Jira since the beginning of time. This means we get to use every feature and improvement firsthand before it gets delivered to you. Building the new Jira, this posed an interesting challenge – we had to get everyone moving to the new experience.
In this talk, we’ll take you through our journey of getting everyone on-board onto new Jira. There will be a guided tour on how to best use the new Jira for the full cycle of product development. By the end of this session, you’ll know how to make new Jira work for your team and not the other way round.
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Harnessing Your Product Manager Superpowers with Trello, Confluence, and Jira
Phil Oye
Principal Product Manager, Atlassian
Phil Oye
Principal Product Manager, Atlassian
Phil is a Principal Product Manager at Atlassian and works on the Atlassian Platform focusing on our cross-product rich-text editor. Before moving to Platform, Phil worked on Confluence on the content experience. Previously, Phil was at Campaign Monitor and before that consulted to companies like ESPN, Gucci, Tiffany, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lego. When he’s not pondering keyboard shortcuts, you can find him arguing about coffee, cocktails, design, and tech. You can find him on Twitter at @philoye.
Whether you're a product manager, product owner, or a cat herder, creating a stellar product takes skill. The list is endless—from aligning stakeholders to creating a clear vision and specifications, planning sprints, measuring success and everything in-between.
In this session, we'll share how to extend the power and flexibility of Atlassian tools for your team. From inception, to planning, to building, learn the battle-tested tips from our own Atlassian teams to ensure that you not only build the product right, but also build the right product.
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How We Managed a Multi-Year, Multi-Drug Clinical Trial
Jessi Smith
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, Washington University
Jessi Smith
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, Washington University
Jessi Smith is a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator currently dedicated to working on a global, phase II/III, multi-center Alzheimer’s disease trial sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She has 20 years of experience in the medical field, having worked in billing and coding, patient care, emergency services, and most recently, clinical research. Since January 2014, Jessi has been an integral part of the growth and development of the Clinical Operations team on a multi-therapeutic, adaptive, platform-based drug trial aimed at finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. One of her responsibilities is the development and oversight of reporting tools that are used to track vital aspects of the trial. She credits the use of Jira and Confluence with providing a unique and customizable tool that excelled over the software options that were previously available in the organization.
Michael March
Atlassian Solution Architect, Isos Technology
Michael March
Atlassian Solution Architect, Isos Technology
Michael March's 20+ years of business experience has been a crucible of improving companies ranging in size from a two-person startup to Fortune 500 companies. He has been involved in aspects of the business ranging from heavy software development to the management of massive computing infrastructures, purposefully shifting organizational sizes, types, domain foci and operational foci. Michael March created Arizona's first Internet service twenty years ago as a co-founder and CEO of Internet Direct, Inc. Michael March continued his pioneering efforts in shaping the commercial internet after Earthlink acquired Internet Direct, Inc. in 1998, serving as the head of Earthlink's internal tools teams. Michael March has dedicated his career to helping in the automation of every aspect of IT infrastructure for organizations of all sizes. This automation has been applied to all portions of the businesses, from development to operations to customer support.
Managing a clinical drug trial is an endeavor, filled with complex recording, scheduling and reporting requirements. The effort becomes more convoluted when the trial involves multiple drugs from multiple manufacturers. Though tools and methodologies are readily available for single drug trials, approaches to multi-drug trials are generally a cobbling together of tools and methodologies that may not be optimal.
Fortunately, Jira is an ideal tool for managing more complex clinical trials. We'll show how Jira was tailored to track the full path of a multi-year, multi-drug clinical trial. Leveraging Jira workflows and automation, a solution was crafted to track all stages of the trial, handle issue and schedule creation based on required protocols, and provide traceability.
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Like Herding Cats: How to Get Engineers to Update Their Status
Jane Allard
Director of Engineering, Akamai
Jane Allard
Director of Engineering, Akamai
From Technical Software Trainer to Director of Engineering, Jane has held many roles in large software companies. For the past 10 years she has focused on process improvement for software development using techniques adapted from lean business process improvement.
Shane Colledge
Senior Technical Program Manager, Akamai
Shane Colledge
Senior Technical Program Manager, Akamai
Shane Colledge has been a senior program manager at Akamai since 2016 and has an extensive background in program management and business development. For eight years he lived in the Middle East providing humanitarian aid to refugee populations.
Many engineering teams at Akamai Technologies have different software development cycles and unique ways of using Jira. We're working on a critical muli-year, cross-team project, and need to provide frequent updates to senior management. So, how do I get my teams to update a status I can use for reporting?
Learn how our agile engineering teams navigate work with management team with a waterfall mindset and see how we use Jira, Confluence and Structure to streamline the status tracking and reporting process.
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Estimation as Uncertainty Reduction
Michael Godeck
Business Analyst,
Michael Godeck
Business Analyst,
Michael Godeck has over 25 years of experience as consultant to Fortune 500 telecom, aviation, insurance and pharmaceutical clients on software development and development practices, serving in roles of developer, architect, team lead and business analyst.
When setting customer/stakeholder expectations, proper estimation is what ultimately pays the bills. So, why isn’t there more discussion around what makes a good estimation strategy when developers expected to know how to do it and do it well?
Join Michael Godeck, a business analyst from a global pharmaceutical company, and learn a new approach— identifying uncertainty to improve estimation accuracy. Get the practical techniques and secrets to better software estimation.
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Inside Atlassian: Focusing on Customer Outcomes in Spite of Complexity
Matthew Watson
Bitbucket Pipelines Development Manager, Atlassian
Matthew Watson
Bitbucket Pipelines Development Manager, Atlassian
Dev Manager at Atlassian 9 years across FishEye, Bitbucket Server, Jira dev tools Integration and Bitbucket Pipelines. 25 years in industry...
How familiar does this scenario sound?
Despite their best efforts, product managers are micro-managing too many features in development, meanwhile developers are waiting on designers. Support engineers aren't sure what shipped this week, and new features can't be released because tech writers weren't aware of them until they were nearly completed. The exec team is eager to learn how the last features are affecting new user uptake, but it's not up to expectations because marketing never understood who it was for, or why it was built.
Join us for a peek behind-the-scenes at Atlassian. And learn how we juggle all of these efforts across the DevOps cycle, and validate features early and often—all while focusing on delivering real customer value.
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The Secret to Nailing Project Estimations
Albert Wang
Developer, Atlassian
Albert Wang
Developer, Atlassian
Albert has been a developer in the Jira Service Desk Cloud product team for just over 3 years. Over his career he's worked on and lead projects of different shapes and sizes - with teams of different shapes and sizes. This breadth of experience has helped him refine his project management skills. He still has much to learn but he's here to share what he's learned so far!
How many times have you been asked by your manager, a product owner, or a stakeholder, "how long will writing a new feature take?" And how many times have you actually given an accurate time estimate—say within 1 week of your estimation?
Learn about how my development team at Atlassian faced these same issues and how we transformed our practices to consistently nail time estimates
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