Twitter is growing at a cracking pace! Scaling the company effectively and efficiently is essential to continued success and growth. Learn how to leverage the power of Confluence and JIRA to scale your own company. Explore Twitter's quarterly planning process, and how Confluence and JIRA enable hundreds of teams to align with company goals and provide visibility at the right level of granularity for the intended audience. *Bio* Nicholas Muldoon is an Agile Coach with the Twitter Engineering team. Nicholas coaches and facilitates software development teams enabling them to reach their full potential. Nicholas was formerly the Product Manager for Atlassian GreenHopper, a solution to help Agile teams manage their projects. Nicholas worked with numerous customers to help them kickstart their agile transformations and ensure they realised the benefits of being agile. He lead the initiative to reinvent GreenHopper and to provide a solution for Scrum and Kanban teams. Nicholas has spoken at Agile and Product Management conferences in Australia, China and North America. He lives in The Mission District of downtown San Francisco and is an advisor to several technology businesses including Practice Ignition and Interactive Accounting. Presented on October 2nd at Atlassian Summit 2013 in San Francisco.

1. NICHOLAS MULDOON • AGILE COACH • TWITTER • @NJM
Collaborating Across an Enterprise
QUARTERLY PLANNING AT TWITTER WITH JIRA AND CONFLUENCE
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7. ...add up an accumulating
series of now moments and
what you have is history.
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8. 140 characters
and so much more...
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9. atlassian for the win
company alignment
engineering @ scale
more than 140 characters
success at twitter
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10. atlassian for the win
company alignment
engineering @ scale
more than 140 characters
success at twitter
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12. November 6, 2012 at 20:20:12 PST
15,107
Tweets per Second
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13. August 3, 2013 at 11:21:50 JST
143,199
Tweets per Second
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15. Technology is only half
the battle
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17. atlassian for the win
company alignment
engineering @ scale
more than 140 characters
success at twitter
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18. http://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Egypt-protests-2.jpg
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19. Goals.
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20. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Gull_ca_usa.jpg
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21. Gulls?
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22. http://eofdreams.com/data_images/dreams/ostrich/ostrich-03.jpg
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23. http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/Corocora_colorada_o_roja_Scarlet_Ibis_Eudocimus_ruber.JPG
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24. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Gull_ca_usa.jpg
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25. Company Objective
Key Result 1
Team Objective
Another
Company Objective
Key Result 2
Group Objective
Team Key Result
Group Key Result
Group Key Result #2
Team Key Result
Company Gulls
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26. • Level One
• Level Two
• Level Two
• Level Two
• Level One
Page title here
http://www.jokeroo.com/pictures/funny/misalignment-of-the-rails.html
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27. atlassian for the win
company alignment
engineering @ scale
more than 140 characters
success at twitter
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28. http://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Egypt-protests-2.jpg
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29. Tools? Tools.
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30. Before Atlassian
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31. Google Docs
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32. Email
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34. With Atlassian
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35. Company Objective
Key Result 1
Team Objective
Another
Company Objective
Key Result 2
Group Objective
Team Key Result
Group Key Result
Group Key Result #2
Team Key Result
Company Gulls
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36. • Consistency
• Automated reporting
• Automated updates across all locations
• Deterministic GREEN / RED
Structure with Tools
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37. • JIRA
• JIRA Agile
• Script Runner
• Confluence
• Presentation Macro
Structure with Tools
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38. Key Results ➔ Epic
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39. JIRA Agile - Epics
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40. JIRA Agile - Backlog Order
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41. JIRA - Workflow
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42. JIRA - Fields
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43. JIRA - Links
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44. • Epic Issue Type
• Prioritise Epics
• Workflow
• Screens
• Fields
• Links
JIRA
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45. Confluence - Company Gulls
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46. Confluence - Team Gulls
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47. Confluence - Team Gulls
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48. Confluence - JIRA Issues Macro
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49. Confluence - Presentation Macro
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50. Confluence - JIRA Issues Macro
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51. Confluence - Presentation Macro
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53. • Blueprint
• Company & Group Gulls
• Team Gulls
• Excerpt Include
• JIRA Issues Macro
• Presentation Macro
Confluence
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54. • JIRA
• JIRA Agile
• Script Runner
• Confluence
• Issues Macro
• Presentation Macro
Company Gulls w/ Atlassian
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55. atlassian for the win
company alignment
engineering @ scale
more than 140 characters
success at twitter
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56. Continuous Improvement
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57. January 1, 2014 at 00:00:12 PST
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Tweets per Second
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58. • It’s possible to change behaviour with tools
• JIRA provides consistency, Confluence visibility
• JIRA and Confluence align team with company
#atlassiansummit / @njm
Remember...
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59. Thank you!
NICHOLAS MULDOON • AGILE COACH • TWITTER • @NJM
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