Swamp Thing--Draining Technical Debt - Atlassian Summit 2012

Swamp ThingDraining Technical DebtStuart CarmichaelMDA Corporation

People will invest indecisions that stick

JIRA and a few simpletechniques lets this happen on an industrial scale

Welcome to the Swamp

Get Ancient throughFlexible Specialization

Poor Change Control is Fuel

Technical Deficits areGood, Until They’re Bad

JIRA – Outlook - Excel

Low Administrivia Saves Schedule

High StickinessIncreases Participation

Long Trains of Thought are the Payoff

Changes Requests areour Basic Unit of Exchange

CRs Pile Up in ourJIRA Dashboards

Communication staysCompact and Focused

Agenda Drives the Quorum

Verbal trumps Email

Decision Makingis Done in Pulses

Meetings are Regular and Ritualized

Roles TrumpPersonalities

Outcomes areWhite Boxed

JIRA plus a handful of tools and techniques makelarge scale industrial change control sticky andawesome #summit12

Thank you!

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