10 Atlassian Tool Hacks to Improve Team Culture
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Your team is already running along with JIRA, Confluence, or HipChat enabling you to deliver awesome projects. But can they help you with team culture? How can you use the tools your team already has in place to cultivate an innovative and open culture? This talk will cover different ways to use JIRA and Confluence to hack your team culture. We will give you tips on how to use Atlassian to make large organizations feel like small teams, build and maintain an innovative culture, and inject some fun and humor into your team - making your workplace feel a bit more enjoyable! Sherif Mansour, Principal Product Manager, Atlassian
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10 Atlassian Tool Hacks to Improve Team Culture
- 1. 10 Atlassian Tool Hacks to Improve Team Culture SHERIF MANSOUR • PRODUCT GUY • @SHERIFMANSOUR
- 2. Agenda What is culture? How people get started How work gets done How to say thanks How to… have some fun
- 4. What you hold true How work gets done CULTURE VALUES
- 5. “…a set of consistent patterns people follow for communicating, thinking, and acting, all grounded in their shared assumptions and values. MICHAEL D. WATKINS, LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS
- 6. It’s all about the people, not the tools. DISCLAIMER
- 7. What is culture? How people get started How work gets done How to say thanks How to… have some fun
- 8. #1 Saying hello Products Customisation Deployment NONE Scaling the “meet and greet”
- 11. =
- 15. #2 Getting started Helping new starters hit the ground running Products Customisation Deployment NONE
- 16. “Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you’re the new organ. If you’re not thoughtful in adapting to the new situation, you could end up being attacked by the organizational immune system and rejected MICHAEL D. WATKINS
- 18. Track progress Help with sense of progress and achievement. Provide guidance Who to meet (and why), must-reads, important culture practices. Make it fun Stay consistent with using the light or dark throughout the related big statement. 90-day #protips
- 19. Track progress Help with sense of progress and achievement. Provide guidance Who to meet (and why), must-reads, important culture practices. Make it fun Find ways to increase engagement e.g. in-jokes or competition. Inject your personality. 90-day #protips
- 20. Track progress Help with sense of progress and achievement. Provide guidance Who to meet (and why), must-reads, important culture practices. Make it fun Find ways to increase engagement e.g. in-jokes or competition. Inject your personality. 90-day #protips
- 21. Welcome blogs (Confluence) Remote “battlestations" (Trello) 90-day plans (Confluence) What is culture? How people get started How work gets done How to say thanks How to… have some fun
- 22. What is culture? How people get started How work gets done How to say thanks How to… have some fun
- 23. Crowdsourcing feedback Reporting workMeetings & decisions
- 25. Create …
- 26. AD-HOC MEETINGS
- 27. AD-HOC MEETINGS Keep the team on track Assign actions and get work done
- 29. RECURRING MEETINGS Followup on open actions One page tracking weekly notes, actions and decisions
- 30. DECISIONS Leaf decisions Fast, trivial-to- reverse decisions. Optimise for speed. Branch Somewhere in the middle Trunk Hard-to-reverse decisions. Optimise for deep thinking.
- 32. “TRUNK” DECISIONS DACI (Driver, Approver, Contributors, Informed)
- 33. “TRUNK” DECISIONS Detailed exploration of options & implications
- 34. Engaging your team… at scale #4 Feedback Products Customisation Deployment NONE
- 37. Things that need to get done… in the physical world #5 Reporting work Products Customisation Deployment NONE
- 38. Report office work in JIRA, let others know with sticky notes
- 42. Meetings (Confluence) Decisions (Confluence) Feedback (Confluence Questions) Reporting work (JIRA, JIRA Service Desk) What is culture? How people get started How work gets done How to say thanks How to… have some fun
- 43. What is culture? How people get started How work gets done How to say thanks How to… have some fun
- 44. Giving people those warm and fuzzy feelings! #6 Saying thanks Products Customisation Deployment NONE
- 47. KARMA BOT FOR HIPCHAT botlab.hipch.at
- 51. What is culture? How people get started How work gets done How to say thanks How to… have some fun Kudos (JIRA Service Desk) Karma Bot (HipChat)
- 52. What is culture? How people get started How work gets done How to say thanks How to… have some fun
- 53. Hackathons Social groups Lookalikes & Emoji Drinks anyone?
- 55. ShipIt: 24 hours to innovate. It's like 20% time. On steroids. bit.ly/atlassianshipit
- 57. Team events, sports and hobbies #8 Social groups Products Customisation Deployment NONE
- 61. #9 Lookalikes & emoji Products Customisation Deployment NONE
- 64. Company culture is rooted in the ways teammates and coworkers communicate. EMOJI https://www.atlassian.com/blog/hipchat/emoji-at-work
- 66. Random funny stuff Values CUSTOM EMOJI Products, services or projects People in your team What to eat for lunch
- 71. If it’s not beer or coffee, how about whisky? the whisky traders club
- 74. #1 Saying hello #2 Getting started #3 Meetings & decisions #4 Crowd-sourcing feedback #5 Reporting work #6 Saying thanks #7 Hackathons #8 Social groups #9 Lookalikes & emoji #10 Drinks 10 Atlassian Tool Hacks to Improve Team Culture THANK YOU! • SHERIF MANSOUR • @SHERIFMANSOUR