from the atlassian labs: fedex champions - atlassian summit 2010 - lightning talks
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From the Atlassian Labs: FedEx Champions Seb Ruiz, AtlassianTRANSCRIPT
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A lightning talk about lightning innovation
Atlassianʼs FedEx Days
Seb Ruiz, Atlassian
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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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Insanity!
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• 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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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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Benefits• For Atlassian• Improves morale!
• Fosters creativity – unleash all the locked up smarts
• Innovations can improve the products
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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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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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Something highly requested?• Brydie McCoy• Bamboo plugin for tracking build breakages• Assigns users to be responsible for breakages
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Bamboo: Broken Build Tracking
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Improving an existing feature?• Nic Venegas• Better side-by-side diff view in FishEye
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FishEye: Side-by-Side Diff
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FishEye: Side-by-Side Diff
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A revolutionary JIRA plugin?• Erik van Zijst• JIRA video capture support
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JIRA: Video Capture Plugin
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JIRA: Video Capture Plugin
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A cross-product tool?• Chris Kiehl• Atlassian Chrome plugin
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Cross-Product: Chrome Plugin• Keeps track of history across all Atlassian products• Searchable with screenshots!
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A totally new feature...• Seb Ruiz• FishEye stack-analysis tool
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FishEye: Stacktrace Analysis Tool
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FishEye: Stacktrace Analysis Tool
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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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