From the Atlassian Labs: FedEx Champions Seb Ruiz, Atlassian

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2. Atlassianʼs FedEx Days
A lightning talk about lightning innovation
Seb Ruiz, Atlassian
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3. What is FedEx?
• Variation on 20% time
• Work must be skewed towards Atlassian
• 24 hours to work on project
• “Scratch that itch!”
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4. Insanity!
• And the company approves?
• But itʼs so expensive!
• 300 developer days
• 40 pizzas
• 600 beers
• Thatʼs a lot of time and money!
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6. Benefits
• For Developers
• Improves morale – we have fun!
• Letʼs us scratch that itch
• Breaks the routine of work
• Chance to impress peers – bragging rights!
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7. Benefits
• For Atlassian
• Improves morale!
• Fosters creativity – unleash all the locked up smarts
• Innovations can improve the products
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8. How It Works
• Come up with an idea that relates to Atlassian
• Write it up! – this is the “FedEx Shipment Order”
• 2pm Thursday – start coding frantically!
• 3pm Friday – “FedEx Delivery” demonstrations
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12. Noteworthy Mentions
• Bamboo – Broken Build Tracking (Brydie McCoy)
• FishEye – Side-by-side Diff (Nic Venegas)
• JIRA – Video Capture (Erik van Zijst)
• XProduct – Chrome History Extension (Chris Kiehl)
• FishEye – Stacktrace Analyzer (Seb Ruiz)
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13. Something highly requested?
• Brydie McCoy
• Bamboo plugin for tracking build breakages
• Assigns users to be responsible for breakages
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14. Bamboo: Broken Build Tracking
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15. Improving an existing feature?
• Nic Venegas
• Better side-by-side diff view in FishEye
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16. FishEye: Side-by-Side Diff
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17. FishEye: Side-by-Side Diff
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18. A revolutionary JIRA plugin?
• Erik van Zijst
• JIRA video capture support
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19. JIRA: Video Capture Plugin
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20. JIRA: Video Capture Plugin
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21. A cross-product tool?
• Chris Kiehl
• Atlassian Chrome plugin
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22. Cross-Product: Chrome Plugin
• Keeps track of history across all Atlassian products
• Searchable with screenshots!
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23. A totally new feature...
• Seb Ruiz
• FishEye stack-analysis tool
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24. FishEye: Stacktrace Analysis Tool
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25. FishEye: Stacktrace Analysis Tool
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26. Finally…
• FedEx is good for everyone
• We absolutely love it
• Drives innovation in the company
• Some are incorporated into products, most are not
• Start your own FedEx
• (become really really popular at work)
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