Archives for Ted Tencza

Atlassian Bootcamp – Our Induction Program

Why Bootcamp? A big problem that companies face with new hires is how to get them up to speed quickly and reduce new hire anxiety, making them feel both productive and welcomed immediately.  At Atlassian the process used to be an ad hoc exercise left up to each individual team, with predictably inconsistent results.  Since staff development is a particular passion of mine, I wanted to try to improve this bit of Atlassian. One of the things that sets progressive technology companies apart from

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Agile Project Management With Virtual Index Cards

Index Cards have become an indispensable tool for a software development team practicing agile. There are a host of good sites with information on strategies for and benefits of utilizing index cards. Agile teams use Index Cards for a variety of reasons, including: helping with iteration planning assigning tasks and then tracking developer assignments recording task estimates as one component of the team's Information Radiator. reminders of the conversations between customers and developers around

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