The document discusses the characteristics and strategies of high-performing software teams, emphasizing the importance of embracing change, cultivating collaboration, and balancing autonomy with visibility. Atlassian offers tools designed to enhance productivity and teamwork across various functions in software development. The content highlights key principles and practices that drive efficiency and innovation within these teams.

1. DOUG BASS • AVP ATLASSIAN TOOLS • GO2GROUP
Secrets of High-
Performing Software
Teams

2. Productivity is never an accident. It is
always the result of a commitment to
excellence, intelligent planning, and
focused effort.
PAUL J. MEYERS
PRODUCTIVITY COACH
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3. HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS
STATE OF SOFTWARE
HIGH-PERFORMING TOOLS
Agenda
NETWORKING

4. HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS
STATE OF SOFTWARE
HIGH-PERFORMING TOOLS
Agenda
NETWORKING
STATE OF SOFTWARE

5. State Of Software
Development

6. Software is eating the world.
MARC ANDREESSEN
INVENTOR OF FIRST WEB BROWSER MOSAIC & CO -FOUNDER OF NETSCAPE
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7. • Big cool statistic
• Add-Ons in Marketplace

12. Innovation needs high-performance teams

14. Talent wins games, but teamwork and
intelligence wins championships..
MICHAEL JORDAN, FORMER PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER
“
”

15. Innovation demands high-performance teams

16. Which
email?
Huh?
I sent
that to
you
already
Is this
thing
done?
That file
is
outdated
I think
Luanne
is on
that
Communication Context
switching
DependenciesDistributed
teams
Teamwork can be hard

17. HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS
STATE OF SOFTWARE
HIGH-PERFORMING TOOLS
Agenda
NETWORKING
HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS

18. High-Performance Team
Becoming a

19. 1 Embrace change
2 Cultivate collaboration
3 Balance autonomy & visibility
Strategies for high-performance

20. Embrace
Change
Strategy 1

21. Change priorities
quickly
InterviewsSupport
Measure
Embrace change
Change priorities based on customer feedback

22. Accelerate
Development
ArchitectureBranching
Deployment
Embrace change
Accelerate development by trying out new technologies

23. change
priorities fast
accelerate
development
embrace change
continuous
delivery
Embrace change
Deliver value fast
to deliver value fast

24. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software.
“
”1ST PRINCIPLE OF THE AGILE MANIFESTO

25. Cultivate
Collaboratio
n
Strategy 2

26. SOFTWARE
Concentration. Smart pair programming. Individual pace & schedule.
Writing software

27. SOFTWARE
Reviewing software
Improve quality. Distribute responsibility. Share knowledge.

28. Operating software (DevOps)
Responsibility. Short feedback loops. Better understanding.
SOFTWARE IT

29. Share ideas and make them better
Broader knowledge. Early feedback. Increased agility.
SOFTWARE
SUPPORT
MARKETING
IT

30. Cultivate collaboration
SOFTWARE
HR
LEGAL
FINANCE
MARKETING
SUPPORT
IT
Open By Default

31. Minimize distractions

32. Balance
Autonomy &
Visibility
Strategy 3
&
&

33. Autonomy

34. Visibility

35. &
Autonomy Visibility

36. 1
2
3
Embrace change
Cultivate collaboration
Balance Autonomy & visibility

37. HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS
STATE OF SOFTWARE
Agenda
NETWORKING
HIGH-PERFORMING TOOLS

38. Tools For
High-Performing Teams

39. 6 offices
worldwide
1,300+
Atlassians

40. 40
We believe behind every great
human achievement, there is a team.
Our mission is to unleash the
potential in every team.
40

41. Customers of all sizes in every industry
50,000+

42. Enterprise Companies
Including teams at over

43. What Atlassian does for teams
DISCUSS
ORGANIZE
COMPLETE
WITH YOUR TEAM

44. Built for teams
Using the insights of
50,000 customers, we design
products that help teams
work better together
Easy to use & adopt
We invest in making products
that are easy to access, easy to
use, and immediately put
to work
Versatile & adaptable
Our products are designed to
be useful in a broad range of
workflows and projects
Integrated & open
Our products are designed to
work well together, and with
critical third-party
platforms/applications
Atlassian’s product portfolio is focused on
helping teams organize, discuss, and complete
work

45. Atlassian for software teams
Plan & track
Adopt agile best practices.
Plan projects, manage
dependencies and track team
progress.
Build & ship
Collaborate on code with inline
comments and pull requests.
Manage and share your Git
and Mercurial repositories.
Collaborate & document
Keep teams connected with
chat. Collaborate on product
requirements, roadmaps and
technical documentation.
Automate & deploy
Embrace continuous delivery.
Automate builds, tests and
releases in a single workflow.

46. The Atlassian Line-up

47. The #1 Agile development solution for tracking,
managing & reporting on software projects

48. Product managers:
Planning projects,
sprints, and timelines
for the next big release
Dev managers:
Managing scope,
timelines, and resources
for an on-time release
Developers: Tracking
issues, bugs, and any
work item related to the
project at hand

49. The simplest place to create, organize and
discuss work with your team

50. Product requirements and
documentation
Project documents and file
collaboration
Activity streams for
content in context

51. The Git solution for professional teams

52. Code review &
workflow restriction
Code collaboration and
hosting for development
teams

53. Continuous delivery built for professional
teams

54. Integrate with JIRA &
Bitbucket for
traceability
Continuous integration
and deployments for
teams

55. Real-time team messaging, video and
audio communications

56. Know who’s
available to
chat at all timesGet system
notifications in
HipChat to
keep your team
up to date
Chat with your
team from
everywhere

57. Atlassian Product Demo
Continuous
delivery
Test & deploy
Start with a requirement
Pages &
files
Tasks &
projects
Scope and assign work
Code &
reviews
Write code & review
Messages,
& calls
Constant communication

58. 1 Embrace change
2 Cultivate collaboration
3 Balance autonomy & visibility
Achieving high performance

59. Autodesk helps
imagine and
design the future.
With Atlassian, Autodesk creates design and
engineering software that can envision the future.

60. Making
personalized
radio possible
at Pandora.
Pandora uses Atlassian at the core of its
highly collaborative culture.

61. ZV
Sotheby’s
refines the art of
selling
masterpieces.
Atlassian helps Sotheby’s evolve its business of
selling and moving the extraordinary.

62. Twitter helps
300M people
worldwide
exchange ideas.
Atlassian supports the fast-growing teams and
technologies at Twitter.

63. Fugro Roames
sees into the
future with drones.
With Atlassian, developers create new technology to
assess risk to existing power infrastructure.

64. Q & A

65. Thank You

66. Dinner & Networking