Glasgow Springtime Aug – 1st of March 2017

| Fri, March 03, 2017 | News & Events | 0 comments

This Atlassian User Group (AUG) event was held at new CodeClan premises at The Tontine Building in Glasgow’s city centre. A nice crowd attended and shared new ideas as well as getting stuck into the famous sausage rolls.

New Leadership

With over 60 active members, we are delighted to hand over the Glasgow AUG to new leadership - Scott Seivwright and Monica Ugalde. Having established the first AUG in Scotland last year, the Glasgow group continues to gain new members each week. We will continue to support future events and no doubt, we’ll meet many new faces over the coming months!

This event’s topic was Planning and there were three interesting talks held on different aspects of planning.

Nigel opened the evening with a talk on Atlassian User Groups in general, informed us about upcoming Atlassian events (Atlassian Summit in Barcelona is approaching!) and introduced the new AUG leaders for Glasgow.

A Life of Planning – Harvey Wheaton

After CodeClan’s CEO’s quick introduction of CodeClan, Harvey shared some interesting insights that he gained throughout the course of his remarkable career in planning. He stressed the importance of perspective and communication.

Regardless of the planning methodology teams or businesses use, we agree at New Verve that predicting the future is very hard! With good planning that centres around people and that adapts to a changing landscape, predicting the future becomes a little easier and more realistic.

Some interesting quotes from Harvey’s slides:

“Anyone who doesn’t realise that the true nature of planning is to continuously gain and maintain perspective and that the true nature of coordination and control is to spread and use the perspective amongst stakeholders, and that the two are separate processes will find it difficult to consistently succeed with projects” - Eddie Obeng.

“The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed” - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister.

Planning in real time with JIRA Portfolio – Jiri Micanek

New Verve’s Jiri Micanek presented the recently released JIRA Portfolio 2.0: a huge step forward from previous versions. With dynamic JIRA integration, you can now plan in real time and everything will always be up to date.

Jiri’s presentation ran us through some cool features such as real-time visibility across all teams and projects, and sandbox planning for what-if scenarios. He also did a live demo of the tool using New Verve’s demo platform. We’ll aim to do a more in-depth demo based on a real-life case study at a future AUG.

Metrics – the good, the bad, and the Ugly (Adventures in a SAFE and Agile Setting) - Scott Seivwright

One of the new AUG leaders delivered an inspiring talk on the use of different metrics within Agile methodologies. He focused particularly on SAFE and how we can use JIRA and its metrics to apply this methodology.