Summit 2012 - How Atlassian Uses Confluence

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

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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