Better Decisions with
Experimentation
Tom Tsao
Atlasssian
LESSONS FROM THE GROWTH OF
ATLASSIAN’S EXPERIMENTATION TEAM
Wes McCabe
Optimizely
OPTIMIZELY.COM/DIGITAL-CHANGE-AGENTS
Housekeeping
● We are recording this webinar
● You’ll receive the recording and slides
● We’ll answer all questions at the end
Agenda
● Introduction
● What is Optimizely?
● Atlassian’s Experimentation Program
● Q&A
Better Decisions with
Experimentation
Tom Tsao
Atlassian
LESSONS FROM THE GROWTH OF
ATLASSIAN’S EXPERIMENTATION TEAM
Wes McCabe
Optimizely
Digital Experience Optimization:

Digital Products, Commerce & Campaigns
Up to 5X Increase in Yield:
Revenue, Share of wallet, Funnel conversion, Risk
mitigation, Ops efficiency
Partner of Choice:
Work with leading global enterprises & “digital
disruptors” including 26 of F100
OUR COMPANY
Digital Experimentation Platform:

Next gen “Test and Learn” System
Replaces Digital Guesswork:
with Evidence-based optimization
Speeds Innovation & Optimization:
Single platform for marketing & product teams
Best in class stats & machine learning
Consumer grade usability
Enterprise program management & prof. services
2
OUR SOLUTION
5
D I G I TA L E X P E R I M E N TAT I O N
EMBRACE
OR PERISH
10X MORE
SCALE
THE GREATEST
ROI IN SaaS
THE NEXT
BIG THING
Our Point of View
“Our success is a function of
how many experiments
we do per year, per month,
per week, per day.”
“Instead of saying ‘I have an
idea,’ what if you said
‘I have a new hypothesis,
let’s go test it.’
“Our company culture
encourages
experimentation and
free flow of ideas.”
3
“One of the things I’m most
proud of, and I think what is
the key to our success, is
this testing framework
we’ve built.”
Experimentation is the
Next Great Business
Transformation
Jeff Bezos Larry Page
Mark Zuckerberg
Satya Nadella
The Surprising
Power of Online
Experiments
10x more experiments
Consumer-grade usability
Open data integration
Maximum yield of business value
UX and feature-level experiments 

and personalization at every digital
touch point
Enterprise-wide 

management & governance
Captures, governs and shares
ideation, analyses & results
Optimizely X Unlocks the Experimentation Best Practices 

of the World’s Greatest Digital Companies 
World’s most trusted outcomes
BestinclassStatsEngine
FasttimetoresultsviaML
Accelerates digital innovation
Speeds dev ops & deployment
De-risks continuous feature delivery
Ensures success of new features
Unifying flagging & experiments
enables controlled testing of new 

features while maintaining high
performance
Ideate
Manage
StoreGovern
Analyze
Share
Open Data
Integration
Security &

compliance
Stats
Engine
Stats

Accelerator
Consumer-

grade
usability
APIs &
Developer 

Tools
Feature
Flags
Open source 

SDKs 

X-Channel
Full Stack
Experimentation
Personali-

zation
Recommen-

dations
Web
Experimentation
PRODUCTS
COMMERCE
CAMPAIGNS
B U S I N E S S V A L U E
VELOCITY/VOLUME
LEVEL 1
Executional
Start
LEVEL 2
Foundational
Growth
LEVEL 3
Cross-functional
Advancement
LEVEL 4
Operational
Excellence
LEVEL 5
Culture of
Experimentation
10
Our Products and Services Take
You on Your Experimentation Journey
TOM TSAO | HEAD OF ECOMMERCE | ATLASSIAN
Better Decisions with Experimentation
Lessons from the growth of Atlassian’s experimentation team
We believe behind every great human
achievement, there is a team. Our mission
is to unleash the potential of every team.
OUR MISSION
Team
Work
Organize Create SupportDiscuss
WHAT WE DO
Agenda
History of experimentation
Case studies
What’s next
History of experimentation
B U S I N E S S V A L U E
VELOCITY/VOLUME
LEVEL 1
Executional
Start
LEVEL 2
Foundational
Growth
LEVEL 3
Cross-functional
Advancement
LEVEL 4
Operational
Excellence
LEVEL 5
Culture of
Experimentation
10
Optimizely’s Products and Services Take
You on Your Experimentation Journey
B U S I N E S S V A L U E
VELOCITY/VOLUME
LEVEL 1
Executional
Start
LEVEL 2
Foundational
Growth
LEVEL 3
Cross-functional
Advancement
LEVEL 4
Operational
Excellence
LEVEL 5
Culture of
Experimentation
In Product 

Experiments
Identified users
Controlled environment
Easier to prove value
Evaluation 

Experiments
Remove credit 

card for trial
Web 

Experiments
Anonymous visitors
Multiple channels
Campaign 

Experiments
Optimizing spend
throughout the funnel
ATLASSIAN’S EXPERIMENTATION JOURNEY
2014
2015
2016
2017
Experiments help us
make decisions
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Idea A vs B vs
C
Not HIPPO
Roadmap
decisions
Feature “spoofing”
Learnings
Listening to our
customers
Learnings = 

Success + Failures
Biz Decisions
Remove credit card for
trials
Experiments Decisions
Case studies
PERSONALIZED HEADLINES DRIVE CONVERSIONS
Hypothesis
Headlines
personalized to
visitors’ company can
drive conversions
Result
+20% increase in
Enterprise contact
form submissions
INDUSTRY PERSONALIZATION DRIVES VISITORS TO RELEVANT CONTENT
BB is marketed to
“professional teams”
control
INDUSTRY PERSONALIZATION DRIVES VISITORS TO RELEVANT CONTENT
test
Hypothesis
Promoting BB
UNLIMITED free
repositories to EDU
audience, would
increase signups
INDUSTRY PERSONALIZATION DRIVES VISITORS TO RELEVANT CONTENT
test
Result
INCONCLUSIVE
In this use case,
personalization did not
move the metric
Hypothesis
Promoting BB
UNLIMITED free
repositories to EDU
audience, would
increase signups
An advanced case study
Product Bundling
PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA
control
Do visitors really
know what they
want?
Confluence
PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA
Hypothesis
We believed that the
3rd product bundle
was chosen by most
visitors, because they
got “3” products for
FREE
Confluence
test
PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA
test
Hypothesis
“Uninformed choice”
bundling
+167 -46
JSW JSD
PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA
-266
Confluence
Signup
CONVERSION
+167 -46
JSW JSD
PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA
-266
Confluence
Signup
CONVERSION
First Day
ACTIVATION
Week1 (Trial)
+110 +50 -145
+66 +8 -71
+167 -46
JSW JSD
PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA
-266
Confluence
Signup
CONVERSION
First Day
ACTIVATION
Week1 (Trial)
Week2 (after trial)
RETENTION
+110 +50 -145
+66 +8 -71
+151 +11 +4
PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA
Result
Bundling more products
yields higher initial sign-
ups, 

but lower retention
Hypothesis
“Uninformed choice”
bundling
Optimize for
conversion
LEARNINGS
Optimize for
conversion
LEARNINGS
retention
Optimize for
conversion
LEARNINGS
retention (the right metric for us)
What’s next
After
Integrated Buyer Experience Team with a
culture of experimentation
Before
Fragmented, one-off experimentation
“heroes”
Exp team Web team Web Exp team
The right
culture
depends on
having the right
platform
Optimizely
Why Optimizely?
Key reasons we chose Optimizely
Better Performance Robust 

APIs 
Auto-Traffic
Allocation
X-Domain
instrumentation
DCP (dynamic
customer profile)
1 2 3 4 5
B U S I N E S S V A L U E
VELOCITY/VOLUME
LEVEL 1
Executional
Start
LEVEL 2
Foundational
Growth
LEVEL 3
Cross-functional
Advancement
LEVEL 4
Operational
Excellence
LEVEL 5
Culture of
Experimentation
ATLASSIAN’S EXPERIMENTATION JOURNEY
Culture of 

Experimentation
Integrated Buyer
Experience Team
Optimizely X
2018
In Product 

Experiments
Identified users
Controlled environment
Easier to prove value
Evaluation 

Experiments
Remove credit 

card for trial
Web 

Experiments
Anonymous visitors
Multiple channels
Campaign 

Experiments
Optimizing spend
throughout the funnel
2014
2015
2016
2017

Better Decisions with Experimentation

  • 1.
    Better Decisions with Experimentation TomTsao Atlasssian LESSONS FROM THE GROWTH OF ATLASSIAN’S EXPERIMENTATION TEAM Wes McCabe Optimizely
  • 2.
  • 3.
    Housekeeping ● We arerecording this webinar ● You’ll receive the recording and slides ● We’ll answer all questions at the end
  • 4.
    Agenda ● Introduction ● Whatis Optimizely? ● Atlassian’s Experimentation Program ● Q&A
  • 5.
    Better Decisions with Experimentation TomTsao Atlassian LESSONS FROM THE GROWTH OF ATLASSIAN’S EXPERIMENTATION TEAM Wes McCabe Optimizely
  • 6.
    Digital Experience Optimization:
 DigitalProducts, Commerce & Campaigns Up to 5X Increase in Yield: Revenue, Share of wallet, Funnel conversion, Risk mitigation, Ops efficiency Partner of Choice: Work with leading global enterprises & “digital disruptors” including 26 of F100 OUR COMPANY Digital Experimentation Platform:
 Next gen “Test and Learn” System Replaces Digital Guesswork: with Evidence-based optimization Speeds Innovation & Optimization: Single platform for marketing & product teams Best in class stats & machine learning Consumer grade usability Enterprise program management & prof. services 2 OUR SOLUTION
  • 7.
    5 D I GI TA L E X P E R I M E N TAT I O N EMBRACE OR PERISH 10X MORE SCALE THE GREATEST ROI IN SaaS THE NEXT BIG THING Our Point of View
  • 8.
    “Our success isa function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day.” “Instead of saying ‘I have an idea,’ what if you said ‘I have a new hypothesis, let’s go test it.’ “Our company culture encourages experimentation and free flow of ideas.” 3 “One of the things I’m most proud of, and I think what is the key to our success, is this testing framework we’ve built.” Experimentation is the Next Great Business Transformation Jeff Bezos Larry Page Mark Zuckerberg Satya Nadella The Surprising Power of Online Experiments
  • 9.
    10x more experiments Consumer-gradeusability Open data integration Maximum yield of business value UX and feature-level experiments 
 and personalization at every digital touch point Enterprise-wide 
 management & governance Captures, governs and shares ideation, analyses & results Optimizely X Unlocks the Experimentation Best Practices 
 of the World’s Greatest Digital Companies  World’s most trusted outcomes BestinclassStatsEngine FasttimetoresultsviaML Accelerates digital innovation Speeds dev ops & deployment De-risks continuous feature delivery Ensures success of new features Unifying flagging & experiments enables controlled testing of new 
 features while maintaining high performance Ideate Manage StoreGovern Analyze Share Open Data Integration Security &
 compliance Stats Engine Stats
 Accelerator Consumer-
 grade usability APIs & Developer 
 Tools Feature Flags Open source 
 SDKs 
 X-Channel Full Stack Experimentation Personali-
 zation Recommen-
 dations Web Experimentation PRODUCTS COMMERCE CAMPAIGNS
  • 10.
    B U SI N E S S V A L U E VELOCITY/VOLUME LEVEL 1 Executional Start LEVEL 2 Foundational Growth LEVEL 3 Cross-functional Advancement LEVEL 4 Operational Excellence LEVEL 5 Culture of Experimentation 10 Our Products and Services Take You on Your Experimentation Journey
  • 11.
    TOM TSAO |HEAD OF ECOMMERCE | ATLASSIAN Better Decisions with Experimentation Lessons from the growth of Atlassian’s experimentation team
  • 12.
    We believe behindevery great human achievement, there is a team. Our mission is to unleash the potential of every team. OUR MISSION
  • 13.
  • 14.
  • 15.
  • 16.
    B U SI N E S S V A L U E VELOCITY/VOLUME LEVEL 1 Executional Start LEVEL 2 Foundational Growth LEVEL 3 Cross-functional Advancement LEVEL 4 Operational Excellence LEVEL 5 Culture of Experimentation 10 Optimizely’s Products and Services Take You on Your Experimentation Journey
  • 17.
    B U SI N E S S V A L U E VELOCITY/VOLUME LEVEL 1 Executional Start LEVEL 2 Foundational Growth LEVEL 3 Cross-functional Advancement LEVEL 4 Operational Excellence LEVEL 5 Culture of Experimentation In Product 
 Experiments Identified users Controlled environment Easier to prove value Evaluation 
 Experiments Remove credit 
 card for trial Web 
 Experiments Anonymous visitors Multiple channels Campaign 
 Experiments Optimizing spend throughout the funnel ATLASSIAN’S EXPERIMENTATION JOURNEY 2014 2015 2016 2017
  • 18.
    Experiments help us makedecisions WHAT WE BELIEVE
  • 19.
    Idea A vsB vs C Not HIPPO Roadmap decisions Feature “spoofing” Learnings Listening to our customers Learnings = 
 Success + Failures Biz Decisions Remove credit card for trials Experiments Decisions
  • 20.
  • 21.
    PERSONALIZED HEADLINES DRIVECONVERSIONS Hypothesis Headlines personalized to visitors’ company can drive conversions Result +20% increase in Enterprise contact form submissions
  • 22.
    INDUSTRY PERSONALIZATION DRIVESVISITORS TO RELEVANT CONTENT BB is marketed to “professional teams” control
  • 23.
    INDUSTRY PERSONALIZATION DRIVESVISITORS TO RELEVANT CONTENT test Hypothesis Promoting BB UNLIMITED free repositories to EDU audience, would increase signups
  • 24.
    INDUSTRY PERSONALIZATION DRIVESVISITORS TO RELEVANT CONTENT test Result INCONCLUSIVE In this use case, personalization did not move the metric Hypothesis Promoting BB UNLIMITED free repositories to EDU audience, would increase signups
  • 25.
    An advanced casestudy Product Bundling
  • 26.
    PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICESFOR JIRA control Do visitors really know what they want? Confluence
  • 27.
    PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICESFOR JIRA Hypothesis We believed that the 3rd product bundle was chosen by most visitors, because they got “3” products for FREE Confluence test
  • 28.
    PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICESFOR JIRA test Hypothesis “Uninformed choice” bundling
  • 29.
    +167 -46 JSW JSD PRODUCT“BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA -266 Confluence Signup CONVERSION
  • 30.
    +167 -46 JSW JSD PRODUCT“BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA -266 Confluence Signup CONVERSION First Day ACTIVATION Week1 (Trial) +110 +50 -145 +66 +8 -71
  • 31.
    +167 -46 JSW JSD PRODUCT“BUNDLE” CHOICES FOR JIRA -266 Confluence Signup CONVERSION First Day ACTIVATION Week1 (Trial) Week2 (after trial) RETENTION +110 +50 -145 +66 +8 -71 +151 +11 +4
  • 32.
    PRODUCT “BUNDLE” CHOICESFOR JIRA Result Bundling more products yields higher initial sign- ups, 
 but lower retention Hypothesis “Uninformed choice” bundling
  • 33.
  • 34.
  • 35.
  • 36.
  • 37.
    After Integrated Buyer ExperienceTeam with a culture of experimentation Before Fragmented, one-off experimentation “heroes” Exp team Web team Web Exp team
  • 38.
    The right culture depends on havingthe right platform Optimizely
  • 39.
    Why Optimizely? Key reasonswe chose Optimizely Better Performance Robust 
 APIs  Auto-Traffic Allocation X-Domain instrumentation DCP (dynamic customer profile) 1 2 3 4 5
  • 40.
    B U SI N E S S V A L U E VELOCITY/VOLUME LEVEL 1 Executional Start LEVEL 2 Foundational Growth LEVEL 3 Cross-functional Advancement LEVEL 4 Operational Excellence LEVEL 5 Culture of Experimentation ATLASSIAN’S EXPERIMENTATION JOURNEY Culture of 
 Experimentation Integrated Buyer Experience Team Optimizely X 2018 In Product 
 Experiments Identified users Controlled environment Easier to prove value Evaluation 
 Experiments Remove credit 
 card for trial Web 
 Experiments Anonymous visitors Multiple channels Campaign 
 Experiments Optimizing spend throughout the funnel 2014 2015 2016 2017