Upcoming AMA with the makers of Teamistry, Atlassian's first podcast!

Glad you like it Daniel. We enjoyed working on it too!

@Daniel Ebers! So glad you're into it =D

The Extras page definitely has some gems, including cards that embody the superpowers featured in every episode.

The site is meant to be simple (e.g. not a ton of sizes for different download preferences). But because we made these for you, we can definitely send you a file in higher res outside of the site so you can print it more sharply.

Hit me up at cdelarosa@atlassian.com and I'll reply with a higher res version of the cards you're interested in

-Christine Dela Rosa

Hahaha, I believe the sentiment behind your answer is that you wish this was out earlier. Do I have that right, @Sumit_Bhutani If so, we didn't want to do a podcast for the sake of jumping on the podcast wagon. We wanted to make sure we had the right show concept, and then later, the right stories to tell.

In fact, we're thinking about what the future of the podcast will look like if you have any feedback or ideas for us. What's working and what could be improved?

-Christine Dela Rosa

Hey Carolyn, yup we did look at sports teams. In fact you could probably produce a whole season just on this topic – I'm sure someone already has.

The thing is, we wanted to find the hidden teamwork stories, and because sport is so ubiquitous, we had trouble finding a story that hadn't been covered already by other media – ESPN's 60 for 60 being the stand out for us.

As for concepts: we were tweaking ideas right up to go time. And in fact once the research came in, it often did take us down a different road. That's the beauty of this kind of storytelling – it's kind of fluid.

Hi Brittany!

Thanks for the Qs.

Re #1, as you can imagine, there are a number of challenges... but all of them pretty exciting, actually. (If all keeps going in the right direction, that is.) A surprising one? Naming! That was really challenging.

Re #2, nothing planned. But we're definitely open to suggestions about future episodes. If you've got a great idea, let us know! (By the way, our production partners at Pacific Content said they heavily relied on Trello when creating the episodes!)

Cheers,

Jamey

@Jamey Austin @Christine P. Dela Rosa

The "Saving Fukushima" episode is one of my favorites of the season, @carolyn french !

The US women's soccer team angle is interesting, because it's not necessarily about the gameplay and more about their fight for equal pay. What other ideas do you have that we can look into?

-Christine Dela Rosa

Brittany Joiner

Oh man, naming is the worst!! I once wrote a blog post called "i can't think of a good title for this", so I can only imagine consistently naming podcasts!

And that is awesome to know they're using Trello for creating episodes! That would be super cool to see. As for ideas, what about how to get your team "on board" with Trello? I can talk about how i got my team to start using Trello and boards that I use to work with others (specifically my ad request process is a board that has worked well and been easy for people to use and get started with!)

Happy to connect, @Brittany Joiner !

The most surprising challenge for me was how quickly stories change. After preliminary research, we had a great angle into a story, but then upon interviewing people on the team, the story changed to something exciting but different than we expected, and then after interviewing subject matter experts, even more helpful information colored our lenses.

I'm personally into structure and outlines, but when production gets started, you don't really know what you have until you finish your research. And even then, I wish we could have kept going back to our sources for even more clarification. Puh, but timelines, y'know? What I like about this surprise is that we went in unassuming and came out with the most compelling story to share. Too bad so much ended up on the cutting room floor. There's just so many good tidbits and not all fit our story structure.

As for episodes featuring teams using Trello, we don't have any...yet. We used Trello pretty heavily to make the podcast happen, so look out for some behind the scenes content on that. Would be interesting to see what you think there

Thanks for asking your questions,

Christine Dela Rosa

Hi Nina!

So glad you enjoy the show, and thanks for these Qs!

Re #1, great question. It's a fun, tricky process. We – that is, our Atlassian team and our Pacific Content partners – did many, many rounds of brainstorming, researching, reviewing, and final selection. As the tagline suggests, we were really focussed on finding "unknown" stories of teams "behind the scenes."

Re #2, OMG! Learning cool things about these stories was definitely part of the fun. I really did always think of Edison as this "lone genius" in his lab by himself. And finding out about the huge chances Ford took when making the Taurus was fascinating. Also, I've always loved Shackleton tales, so to find out more details was really cool. Btw: upcoming episodes are some of my favorites... stay tuned!

Cheers,

Jamey

Hi Nina, glad you liked it!

New episode coming Monday so not long now... lol

We spent a lot of time as a team sifting through ideas with our production partners, Pacific Content. We really worked hard on finding those unsung heroes. So if there was already a lot media about a particular team then they didn't make the cut.

For me, i learned a lot about sacrifice and humility. And that new ways of thinking can really enhance a project. And that Jamey and Christine are just wonderful creative thinkers who really pushed me to be a better version of myself. SIckly sweet, maybe? But so true!!

Hi @Danny !

Of course. Next one comes out on Monday

Our process for selecting each idea evolved over time. At first, we had different themes we hoped to capture and tried to look for stories that embodied them. But we quickly realized that we couldn't work from that direction as it's not easy to know how teams worked through preliminary research, especially if we hoped to uncover it. So then, we just went after interesting things that happened and did the work to figure out how those things came to be. Every time, of course there was a team involved, but we had to pick and choose which ones we thought would be most interesting to our listeners. It was also important not to duplicate topics and to ensure that we would be able to access enough contemporary guests and legally air source material.

From start to finish, each episode took about six weeks. Of course, we worked with our production partner, Pacific Content, on multiple episodes at a time. So, we didn't have to wait for one episode to finish before starting another. The back-and-forth with editing was really interesting. Not only did we have to find the right story to tell (there are a number of stories within stories), but we had to be selective about which interview bites and narration best flowed into a cohesive episode. Sometimes, those two things were hard to accomplish at the same time, and even harder, was being able to dissect how the people worked together without derailing from the storytelling.

Compelling storytelling came first. Then came the narrative, that we hope, helps listeners take insights back to their own teams.

Thanks for the encouragement and the questions!

-Christine Dela Rosa

https://www.atlassian.com/podcast

@ohseongkooi - not sure if you meant to put context around your comment, but if we're sharing links, here's the link to the Teamistry podcast.

Have a good one,
Christine Dela Rosa

Hi Danny!

Thanks for your great Qs. I wanted to jump in and add to Christine's response about your question #2. The editing process has been one of my favorite aspects of this project. The creative collaboration we've enjoyed with Pacific Content has really been a highlight. They've told us that we've been their most engaged client in terms of edits and feedback, which is cool to hear, but what I've loved is how open they've been to it, to all our ideas and feedback. The iterative (sorry, buzzword) process has made each episode better, and I've really appreciated the open and honest exchanges we've had, and continue to have. Editing and refinement are the keys!

Stay tuned for some great upcoming episodes!

Cheers,

Jamey

Hi Daniel!

Thank you, so glad you're enjoying the show. We've got some pretty amazing designers at Atlassian, right? I love what they've created for our team superpowers, like "musical chairs" and "pivot and commit." As Christine noted, there are loads of cool things to check out on the extras page.

Stay tuned... there are some great upcoming episodes on the way, starting on Monday 5/25!

Cheers,

Jamey