Gamification is a powerful tool to motivate teams, and make the process of software development more fun and engaging. You'll learn about the tools and strategy to implement gamification immediately in Atlassian tools, why people are more motivated by intangible rewards, and novel uses of the Atlassian API/SDK for gamification purposes.

1. #atlassian

2. The Extraordinarily Motivated Team:
Gamification and the Atlassian Tools
DANIEL GREEN • CTO • WIKISTRAT • @WSDAN

3. What Is Wikistrat

9. Gamification 101

10. What is Gamification?

11. You Probably Played A Game To Get Here

12. Elements of Gamification
Player Types

13. Game Mechanics
POINTS
BADGES
LEADERBOARDS

14. Elements of Gamification
Game Mechanics (P-B-L)

15. Reward Mechanics
STATUS
ACCESS
POWER
STUFF

16. Elements of Gamification
Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)

17. Elements of Gamification
Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)

18. Elements of Gamification
Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)

19. Elements of Gamification
Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)

20. Gamification with
Atlasssian Tools

21. Level One: Plugins

22. Level One: Confluence Questions

23. Level Two: JQL
• Who closed the most issues this week?
• Who had the highest number of issues close before the due date?
• Which project had the least number of bugs re-opened this month?

24. Level Two: Confluence Space Activity

25. How We Did It

26. Gamifying Confluence

27. Gamifying Confluence
Version 1: Scan The Database
• PHP script which was run as a cron job every minute.
• Read the last minute of activity
• Kept a daily and overall total for each user
• We set a scale that would indicate levels
• We capped the daily amount to prevent cheating
• A leaderboard was added to the Dashboard

28. Gamifying Confluence
Version 2: Categories And The “Active User Badge”

29. Gamifying Confluence
Version 2: Putting Gamification Front And Center

30. Gamifying Confluence
Version 3: A Gamification Engine
• Good example: https://github.com/flowdock/flowdock-confluence-plugin

31. … In Closing

32. Gamification isn’t
an all or nothing
strategy.

33. Be careful giving
tangible rewards.

34. People know the
different between
Fun™ and Fun.

35. Thank you!
DANIEL GREEN • CTO • WIKISTRAT • @WSDAN

36. Image Credits
• Dopamine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine
• Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-05-19/
• Grocery Miles: https://www.webflyer.com/extras/funnies/index.php?toon=22
• Frequent Flyer Cards: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/396105729699402348/
• Bartle’s Player Types: http://frankcaron.com/2011/07/on-mapping-bartles-player-types-
to-employees/
• Frequent Flyer Card: http://biztravelguru.com/2011/10/qantas-platinum-one-frequent-flyer-
membership-full-details-announced/
• Flagship Checkin: http://ordtoanywhere.com/2013/07/19/the-new-american-airlines-flagship-
check-in-at-ord/