Got inspired after Team '23 and am pitching the concept of an Atlassian Champion community at my org. I'd love to hear feedback, tips, tricks, hacks, successes, failures (especially!) that I can draw upon to institute.
For context, we're a small company (~300) in the grey area between startup and mid-market, and I'm hoping this could better align the company around how to best collaborate virtually via Atlassian tools (and enable the company to better align with Atlassian best practices overall).
Thanks in advance!
@Amy Chamberlain as an admin who brought Confluence and Jira into my company and had to rally the troops for adoption and usage, I may have some insight to share. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn (on my profile social tab) to start a discussion.
Sounds great!
When I have done this I had a confluence page where I could hype what was I was planning on chatting about over the coming weeks. Also, encouraged people to leave comments suggesting topics they would like to hear/learn about. that said, I kept it fairly spontaneous and encouraged people to bring along their struggles or victories to share as well.
It took a while to build momentum, so patience is a virtue. But in the end it added value and was fun to host.
Good luck!!
This is really helpful @Curt Holley - how early on in the rollout of general Atlassian products was it? And can you elaborate on the value-add at all? (Going to tee up a pitch to senior leadership to this end so that information would be really helpful!)
Hi @Amy Chamberlain
Atlassian cloud (Jira and Confluence) had been rolled out 6 to 9 months prior to me starting, and starting to build a community of interest as part of my role (so I didn't have to pitch it, it was in my job description).
The value add was;
Wow @Curt Holley this is GOLD. Exactly what I was looking for - thank you so much! I may reach out once I get my pitch deck in place if that's ok?
Sure @Amy Chamberlain
I've just added my Linkedin account to the social tab of my profile 🙂
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