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TWC & DevOps: Killing the $100M Context Tax in Your System of Work

Hi TWC Community!

Many organizations have invested heavily in what looks like a “modern” toolchain – Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, Slack, Loom, Rovo, and more. On paper, it’s an Atlassian-powered system of work. In reality? Teams are still chasing status, duplicating decisions, and losing days of focus to context switching.

In other words: your DevOps culture can look great in a slide deck and still be a $100M hallucination.

I’m hosting an upcoming webinar, “TWC & DevOps – Made for Work,” where we’ll look at how Atlassian’s Teamwork platform (TWC) and DevOps practices come together to create a real, end-to-end system of work – not just a pile of tools.

I’m Sebastian Geschwill, Principal Enterprise Technical Architect at Atlassian, with 25+ years working across large-scale R&D and platform organizations, including ALU, Nokia, and Amadeus. I’ve seen where the "Human API" breaks down between strategy, product, and engineering, and how the right patterns across Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo can close those gaps.


What we’ll cover

  • The Context Tax in Your System of Work
    How a 1,000-person organization can leak $100M+ in value because work, decisions, and status live in different places – and how TWC can help you see and reduce that tax.

  • The "Frozen Middle" Between Strategy and Delivery
    Why your big-picture roadmaps and OKRs don’t translate cleanly into what ends up in Jira – and how to use TWC to align strategy, portfolio, and DevOps delivery in a way that actually sticks.

  • Digitizing the Human API with TWC
    Concrete patterns for:

    • Using Loom to replace high-cost status meetings with rich, async updates

    • Using Confluence as shared institutional memory connected directly to work in Jira

    • Using Rovo as the intelligence layer that sits on top of your content and work, so teams can navigate complexity through questions instead of endless searches

  • A Customer Story: 16 Days Back per Person, per Year
    How one organization used these patterns to reduce context switching, improve flow, and give each person back the equivalent of more than three working weeks per year.


What you’ll walk away with

You’ll leave with:

  • A TWC + DevOps Diagnostic Map for your own organization: where context breaks, where information gets lost, and where the "frozen middle" is hiding.

  • A 72-Hour Challenge designed to:

    • Identify top context taxes across your teams

    • Replace at least one recurring sync with an async, TWC-powered pattern (Jira + Confluence + Loom + Rovo)

If you’re exploring how Atlassian’s Teamwork platform can actually change the way your DevOps teams work – rather than just adding another tool – this session is for you.

 

When? March 18 & 19, 2026

👉 Save your seat!

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