Join Wes for a look into how the teams involved during the concept and planning phases of product development collaborate online. Learn how to bring geographically dispersed teams – Development, Product Management, Marketing, QA, Tech Writing, and Sales – closer together than ever before.
12. 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.
Designer, NASA Lunar Module
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13. Our Version of The Story
Dream It Plan It
Build It Launch It
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14. Where We Use Confluence
(And what I’ll cover in this talk)
• Dream • Build It
• Get It Down • Launch
• Hash It Out • Align
• Mock It Up
• Plan It
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19. New is a constant.
#summit12
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20. Get It Down
‘New’ is a constant
• Customers
• Blogs
• Product Managers
• Founders
• Other products
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21. Get It Down
Confluence - No Stress
• People push good
ideas forward
(given the right culture)
• Confluence Helps
• Shares
• Popular Content
• Very few lists
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32. Hash It Out
You say ˈkäment, I say flame war
• Collaborative!
• Constructive?
• Important stuff bubbles
• Balance is cultural
• Not software
• Not enforced through
process or authority
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33. Hash It Out
That engineering culture thing again
• Shipped!
• You what?
• Where?
• Speakeasy
• Find ways to safely
prototype
• Comment over meeting
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45. Plan It
In whatever way you like
• Atlassian
• Polyglot Agile
• Confluence team
• Kanban
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46. Plan It
Tools
• Tools of the trade
• JIRA
• GreenHopper
• Confluence
• Team Calendars
• Atlassian.com/resources/
better-together
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52. Build It
Extra-sprint work
• Inline Tasks
• Sprint goals
• Action items from a
meeting
• Non-technical users
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53. Build It
Notifications - All in a days work
• Confluence Notifications
• No inbox clutter
• Things that need doing
• Things that need reading
• Personal Notes
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54. Add personal todos
Mark notifications for followup
Track Confluence tasks
Add in-line tasks in pages
@mention to assign tasks
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