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Introduction to Confluence and Jira
One of our clients have requested for some slides for him to view before the presentation. I thought it will be good to share with everyone on what Confluence and Jira is about.
p.s: It is a bit wordy since it is more meant for reading than presentation
Introduction to Confluence
Introduction to JIRA
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Winner of Sun Tech Days
The news is out. I had won the best blog entry for the Sun Tech Days Blogfest. They have also put up the list of blog entries and the speakers’ presentation slides for the event.
I hope I do get a chance to talk in the next Sun Tech Days.
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Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum 2009
The Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum 2009 is ongoing at Sydney. And here are some of the good stuff to share around.
What’s the latest trends in enterprise Web 2.0 use and how other organizations are using them for? Check it out at State of the Nation by Ross Dawson
Messenger, Youtube, MySpace, and all the new things that will emerge on the web cannot be stopped. We must not fear them but learn how to embrace them” –
Giam Swiegers, Deloitte CEOFind out more on how Deloitte successfully tamed Web 2.0 in their office with Deloitte case study by Peter Williams
You may want to visit their blog for more informationAnd Ross Dawson has authored a book “Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Report which contains very good advice on how to create business value with web technologies. You can check out the table of contents and the sample chapters
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The Atlassian Summit
Atlassian, the folks that developed Confluence and Jira is organizing their first user conference – The Atlassian Summit at San Francisco from 31st May – 2nd June 2009.
If you have been using Confluence or Jira, then you might be interested in attending the Atlassian Summit to meet other fellow users and experts with these tools and learn more from each other. And check out the top 10 reasons of attending the Summit.
Check out the freshly released agenda to find out if there’s anything that will interest you.
For those interested, there is a special promotional code ATS09-DPAR which entitles you to an additional 10% off the registration. And if you apply before 20th Apr, you will also be entitled to the special early bird rate too.
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Balsamiq Mockups Webinar
Balsamiq Mockups is a Confluence extension that allows application designers to create prototypes of their applications fast and easily.
This coming thursday (26th Feb), there is going to be a webinar where 2 end-users are going to share how Mockups for Confluence is helping their two hot startups develop killer products in a more agile, productive and fun way.
The webinar will start at 1am Singapore time and should run for about 30-45 minutes. Attendees can ask questions in real time and there will be a $100 discount code at the end of the webinar. The registration is free.
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Atlassian hits $100million of sales
Within a short timespan of 7 yrs, our partner, Atlassian
has hit $100 million of sales. This is really amazing considering the fact that the prices for their product is in the range of 4 figures. This means that a lot of people have bought and are using the tools developed by them.According to their founders, the recipe for the success are:
- The software had to sell itself with no $$$ for a sales team
- To sell itself it had to be low price
- To make money we’d have to sell lots of copies
- To sell lots of copies, we’d have to build really good software
We knew that we definitely made the right choice to partner Atlassian to market Confluence and Jira together with our best practices.Congratulations to Atlassian on this achievement 🙂Share this post
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Sun Tech Days 2009
Last week, I attended Sun Tech Days 2009 which made its round in Singapore. For the past few years, I always made it a point to attend this event as it allows me to have a glimpse of the latest technology development and the roadmap ahead. More importantly, it enables me to see whether they can be matched with any of the business needs. And I would know what and where to search for more details.
Sun Tech Days
I have written down my notes at our wiki:
- JavaFX – The New Platform for Rich Internet Applications
- Building Social Applications using Zembly
- MySQL – The Database for Web 2.0
- Developing Web Applications using Comet and Ajax
- Lightning Talks – A tour with OpenSolaris – end user perspective
- Achieving Better Performance For Your Java Applications
One piece of good news is that Jira is bundled within Project Kenai as one of the issue trackers. Project Kenai is Sun’s initiative to provide a collaboration site for the open source community.
The Lightning Talk sessions which are newly introduced to this year’s agenda seemed to be a great idea. It allows end-users of Sun technologies to speak for a short period on how they utilized the technology and share tips and tricks. I do hope this will remain as a regular feature and I would be able to share my experience and knowledge on how to collaborate better with Confluence and Jira which are running on Java 🙂
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Happy Lunar New Year
Akeles Consulting wishes you a Happy and Bountiful Harvest in the coming year 🙂
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How it all begun
I was thinking hard what to write as the first blog post and it occurred to me that this might be an interesting topic since many people have asked us the same questions. Why are you starting your own venture when recession is ongoing? Would it be good to have a stable and decent income with an well-established company? What you choose to do this business? To me, it seemed like all predestined. I have just joined my previous company as a Systems Analyst and was asked to create a maintenance wiki of my system on the Mediawiki system (Mediawiki is the system that the Wikipedia is running on). That was my first exposure to wikis and hence begun my adventure with it. However, the initiative wasn’t that successful due to the limitations on the features. People are not adding new content because
- they are not comfortable with sharing everything with the entire organization and wanted some privacy within their teams
- information was hard to search
- very little traffic as the usage is very limited to documentations
Subsequently we migrated over to Confluence and I became one of the main evangelists pushing for wiki adoption at our workplace. Throughout the 4 years, I witnessed many benefits of using wikis in work (which I will share in subsequent blogposts) and also gained a lot of knowledge and experience through reading and practice. A confluence of factors lead to my decision to start Akeles Consulting:
- I have a deep belief that knowledge management will be valuable for many organizations
- I wanted to use my passion and experience to help more people and to make a difference to the world after reading Dan Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need
- It made more economical sense for companies to hire external consultants
- There aren’t a lot of Chief Knowledge Officers in the corporate world. I have to create my own career path to pursue my belief and interests
- It will be easier to refine the best practices and build up the experience by providing consulting to many companies instead of a single company
- One of the gurus, Stewart Mader went independent and launched his own consultancy
- The time was ripe. Recession is a good time to start a business as things are cheap and clients are more value seeking rather than brand conscious. In fact many long lasting companies were founded during the Great Depression
I hope we can share more interesting blog posts in the coming year. And I would like to wish you a Happy Year Ahead in 2009 🙂
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