confluence at nasa: where no wiki has gone before - atlassian summit 2010
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Confluence at NASA: Where No Wiki Has Gone Before Nick Smith, Freedom Information SystemsTRANSCRIPT
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Where No Wiki Has Gone Before
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•Nick Smith• Information Manager
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Where No Wiki Has Gone Before
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•Nick Smith• Information Manager
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Ares Preliminary
Design Review (PDR)
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Importance
• Rigorous
• Funding
• Safety
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People
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People
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People
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People
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People
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People
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People
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Data
• ~75 documents, 2 weeks
• Logistical information
• Diverse review team
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Challenges
• Coordination
• Technical bottlenecks
• Lots of changes
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Our Role
• Not System Administrators
• Space Admins
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Our Solution
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Design Train Tweak
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2020
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• Surveys
• Overwhelmingly positive
• Huge success
Results
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Top Ten Things We Learned
•10. Avoid chaos.
•9. A wiki is just a tool.
•8. Trust is the most important thing in a wiki.
•7. Empower the user.
•6. Put wikis in their terms.
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•5. Tutor your users.
•4. Every team needs a fluent wiki whisperer.
•3. ???
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#3Get away from the computer.
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Go talk to people.
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If you have the ideas you can do a lot without machinery. Once you have those ideas, the machinery starts working for you...
Most ideas you can do pretty darn well with a stick in the sand.
Alan Kay, American computer scientist
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Make a plan.
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Header
Footer
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#3Get away from the computer.
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#2Shoot for Star Wars.
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Great wikis balancestory and spectacle.
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#2Shoot for Star Wars.
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#1KISS Confluence.
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People like simple tools.
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People like simple tools.use
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#1KISS Confluence.
#2Shoot for Star Wars.
#3Get away from the computer.
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Questions?Why did you have to train your users?
Arenʼt wikis, by nature, unplanned/spontaneous?
If a wiki has to be designed, doesnʼt that mean itʼs already too complex?
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Jake Shimabukuro
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