The Atlassian Ecosystem Podcast by Adaptavist

Ep. 10- Suprising Suprises

Matthew and Ryan are joined by a bevy of their dear Adaptavist colleagues on the roof of the hotel they stayed at in Barcelona. They talked about surprises that shocked and delighted, and likened these experiences to those they collectively experienced at #AtlassianSummit #Summit2017 #Spilken #Stublefield #Burrell #Davis #Slootwig #Suprises

Ep. 9: Watcha Watcha Watcha Want (from Atlassian)

From the floor of Atlassian Eurosummit 2017, Matthew and Ryan are joined by Nic Brough and Phill Fox. They talk awhile about their pets back home, and then dive into a conversation about what they'd like to see from Atlassian in the future. #Stublefield #Spilken #Brough #Fox #Atlassian #Atlassiansummit

Ep. 8: Straight Outta Keynote

Directly after Scott Farquhar's keynote, Ryan and Matthew are joined by Dan Hardiker and Laura Hauser for an analysis of the news from Atlassian. We talk about the impacts to the end user and power user, and where Atlassian might be headed for the ecosystem as a whole. #Spilken #Stublefield #Hardiker #Hauser #Keynote #AtlassianSummit #Barcelona #Atlassian #Trello

Ep. 7: Live from Barcelona Passport Control

Stuck in the customs line that never ends, Ryan records and edits the first podcast of Euro Summit mid-line using an iPad, microphone, and GarageBand. He is joined by Matthew, Brenda, Vitor, and Cristiano, partly by design and partly by proximity in the line. We talk about what we expect to hear from Atlassian this week as well as some of our own podcast and training plans. We also unveil an exciting new Adaptavist offering that also launches tomorrow, so tune in, and be sure to drop by the Adaptavist booth G2 to see us and learn more!

Ep. 6: Testing... testing... is this thing on?

Ryan and Matthew are joined by Cristiano Caetano and Vitor Pelizza, founders of Kanoah and now members of the Adaptavist team, about quality assurance and testing. Cristiano and Vitor share their definitions of testing and what makes it complicated and challenging. We need to take into account the impacts of failure if you don't have good testing, and we need to recognize that developing good tests needs to start at the very beginning of the software development life cycle. When they started, Cristiano and Vitor used Excel spreadsheets for manual testing, and both commercial and open source tools for tracking and automating tests. But they found that this was time consuming, expensive, and made reporting difficult. As a result of these challenges and frustrations, they decided to create their own test management solution that provides enterprise-grade test management features on top of JIRA, tightly integrated and with a modern, flexible user interface. From the ground-up, Adaptavist Test Management for JIRA has been designed to manage, organize, and report all testing work right inside JIRA. This fosters communication and collaboration with all team members so your team can make testing part of the entire software development lifecycle. Cristiano and Vitor also share their #1 most important tips for testing, so give it a listen and let us know what you think! Have any questions about testing or want to learn more? Contact us at learn@adaptavist.com!

Ep. 5: Mistakes Were Made

Join Matthew and Ryan for a conversation with Rachel Wright, author of the JIRA Strategy Admin Workbook. Matthew and Rachel swap stories about mistakes they made as young JIRA Administrators and some tips for how you can learn from their experience and avoid those same mistakes. On this podcast, you'll hear about: * Our origin stories. Everyone starts somewhere, and just like most super heroes, our beginnings are rooted in tragedy. Looking back, though, we can laugh about it and share some tips for people starting out. * Our most epic crashes, particularly when they were our fault. Rachel ran into troubles cleaning up a system with over a million issues. Matthew's spirit was broken by a failed upgrade. But they both learned how to do better and have some solid steps for avoiding these problems. * Our top recommendations and the things we recommend most that people focus on, as well as our single-most-important-number-1-tip. Interested in learning more about the JIRA Strategy Admin Workbook? Check out https://www.jirastrategy.com/

Ep. 4: Styling Style Guides

Ryan and Matthew are joined by professional writers Krista Parker and Renee Brown to talk about how creating a style guide for Confluence and JIRA can help standardize content and make it easier for people to engage with your Atlassian systems. Creating a solid style guide will help with everything from branding to training, and you can also use them to make sure your content is accessible for people who are vision impaired. In this episode, we'll share some key tips for creating and maintaining a style guide. We also talk about styling for mobile devices, the differences between heading 3 and heading 4, screenshot sizes and formatting, export styling... we cover the gamut of Confluence styling, and then turn to JIRA and some simple things you can do to make JIRA easier to use by modifying the visuals. At Adaptavist, our style guide is simply a page on Confluence that defines the different elements (headings, screenshots, bolding vs. italics, icons, etc.) and explains what those need to be and how they should be used. This approach makes sure the style guide is accessible to everyone in the company, we're all using the same instruction manual when we write, and we can update it quickly, easily, and collaboratively. So tune in for Episode 4: Styling Style Guides! Adaptavist Live can be found using your podcast app of choice, and you can also find us at adaptavist.com/live. Join us next week for Episode 5: Mistakes Were Made. We'll be talking with Rachel Wright, author of the JIRA Strategy Admin Workbook, and trading stories from our misspent youths when we started administering JIRA, the mistakes we made, and how you can avoid making the same mistakes.

Ep. 3: Coffee and Workflows

What do you get when you mix JIRA Workflows and coffee? The best podcast in the Atlassian Ecosystem! Join Ryan, Matthew, Evan, and Kara as they share their coffee-making tips and best practices for JIRA Workflows.

Ep. 2: The Value of Stories

Renee Brown joins Ryan Spilken and Matthew Stublefield for the second episode of Adaptavist Live: The Adaptavist Atlassian Ecosystem Podcast. On this episode, the podcast is named, and the gang chats about how stories shape culture and how we can leverage stories to improve how we work together.

Ep. 1: The First One

Introducing Adaptavist Live! Ryan Spilken and Matthew Stublefield talk a bit about what to expect from the Adaptavist Atlassian Ecosystem Podcast and what has been going on at both Atlassian and Adaptavist: * Who is Adaptavist and why are we doing a podcast? * News from Atlassian Summit 2016 in San Jose * What’s happening at Adaptavist * News in the Atlassian ecosystem from Q1 2017 * The Atlassian Certification and Accreditation program * Atlassian Euro Summit 2017 * Adaptavist ScriptRunner for JIRA Training * Adaptavist is Hiring (http://www.joinadaptavist.com) * Email your suggestions for future podcasts to learn@adaptavist.com