Why I Built my Career with Atlassian Tools and You Should Too!
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Joseph Pursel discusses his career development through the use of Atlassian tools, highlighting the growing demand for skilled admins in this field. He emphasizes the importance of innovation, learning, and building a personal brand, urging others to explore opportunities within Atlassian. The document serves as a call to action for professionals to leverage these tools for personal and career growth.
Why I Built my Career with Atlassian Tools and You Should Too!
- 1. JOSEPH PURSEL | JIRA DEVELOPER | AIRBNB | WWW.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/JOSEPHPURSEL Why I Built My Career on Atlassian Tools & Why you Should Too!
- 2. 6500
- 3. Level-set Organizations are investing in Atlassian Tools. Demand for skilled Atlassian Admins is at an all time high. There aren’t enough Admins to fill the open positions!
- 4. I’M JOE PURSEL, AND I AM AN ATLASSIAN SUCCESS STORY.
- 5. TIMELINE NOAA Learned Jira & Confluence Amway NA Learned Bamboo, Bitbucket & Crowd Amazon Learned to Build a Cloud Instance of Jira Airbnb Learned How to Build a Jira & Confluence Data Center 2012-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 Present
- 6. Agenda Background Innovation - Transformation Learn - How I Did It Thrive - Build Your Brand Points to Remember Q & A
- 7. Agenda An Average “Joe” Innovation - Transformation Learn - How I Did It Thrive - Build Your Brand Points to Remember Q & A
- 8. Agenda Background Innovation - Transformation Learn - How I Did It Thrive - Build Your Brand Points to Remember Q & A
- 9. Agenda Background Innovation - Transformation Learn - How I Did It Thrive - Build Your Brand Points to Remember Q & A
- 10. Agenda Background Innovation - Transformation Learn - How I Did It Thrive - Build Your Brand Points to Remember Q & A
- 11. Agenda Background Innovation - Transformation Learn - How I Did It Thrive - Build Your Brand Points to Remember Q & A
- 12. Agenda Background Innovation - Transformation Learn - How I Did It Thrive - Build Your Brand Points to Remember Q & A
- 13. A Brief History in Time And why this was important in my story
- 14. Atlassian’s Journey Atlassian Tools revolutionized the way TEAMs get work done. Background Age of Accelerations From mainframes to servers to clusters of clouds Average Joe before Jira Work was something I did, not what I enjoyed.
- 15. QUESTIONS FOR YOU • What happened in 2007? • Why is this so important? • Are you using Atlassian tools?
- 16. THESE HAPPENED IN 2007 Apple - iPhone Google - Android Amazon - Kindle Atlassian Airbnb
- 17. Moore’s Law (1965) Unlocked the future and predicted events which led to the Age of Accelerations
- 18. The observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years. MOORE’S LAW - 1965 GORDON MOORE - FORMER CEO INTEL
- 19. …this thing we call the Cloud, and that I call the Supernova, is creating a release of energy that is amplifying all different forms of power. THOMAS FRIEDMAN - THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE - 2017
- 20. Right now, three powerful forces - technology, globalization and climate change - are accelerating exponentially. THOMAS FRIEDMAN - THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE - 2017
- 21. We live in an age of accelerations Climate change Globalization Technology Changes
- 22. Life as a PM Aimlessly Hopping From Job to Job Started With a Software Development Crisis All Routes Point to Rome 5 Months Later The SDLC Process Was Approved I was your average “Joe”
- 23. Life as a PM Aimlessly Hopping From Job to Job Started With a Software Development Crisis All Routes Point to Rome 5 Months Later The SDLC Process Was Approved I was your average “Joe”
- 24. Life as a PM Aimlessly Hopping From Job to Job Started With a Software Development Crisis All Routes Point to Rome 5 Months Later The SDLC Process Was Approved I was Your Average “Joe”
- 25. Life as a PM Aimlessly Hopping From Job to Job Started With a Software Development Crisis All Routes Point to Rome 5 Months Later The SDLC Process Was Approved I was your average “Joe”
- 26. Life as a PM Aimlessly Hopping From Job to Job Started With a Software Development Crisis All Routes Point to Rome 5 Months Later The SDLC Process Was Approved I was Your Average “Joe”
- 28. How Atlassian Innovated Big, Hairy Goal Sell On-Line Better-Faster- Cheaper 50,000 Customers Early 2000’s - Atlassian Goal
- 29. How Atlassian Innovated Big, Hairy Goal Sell OnLine Better-Faster- Cheaper Low Prices - Massive Volume We want HQ to Remain in Australia!
- 30. How Atlassian Innovated Big, Hairy Goal Sell On-Line Better-Faster- Cheaper Dreams Come True! Dream realized - 2-23-2015
- 32. Innovate - Transformation Becoming the New “Joe”
- 33. Innovation - for its part, can refer to something new, or to a change made to an existing product, idea or field. WALTER ISAACSON
- 34. Do You Dream? I Dreamed of moving to San Francisco Atlassian Dreamed for 50,000 Customers Dreams Airbnb’s Founders Dreamed of Building a Company on Air Beds
- 35. Do You Dream? I Dreamed of moving to San Francisco Atlassian Dreamed for 50,000 Customers Dreams Airbnb’s Founders Dreamed of Building a Company on Air Beds
- 36. Do You Dream? I Dreamed of moving to San Francisco Atlassian Dreamed for 50,000 Customers Dreams Airbnb’s Founders Dreamed of Building a Company on Air Beds
- 37. Do You Dream? I Dreamed of moving to San Francisco Atlassian Dreamed for 50,000 Customers Dreams Airbnb’s Founders Dreamed of Building a Company on Air Beds
- 38. Buyers have more choices Renders sellers less secure Insecurity is not bad for you Because it Spurs Innovation THE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION - INNOVATE ROBERT B. REICH - THE FUTURE OF SUCCESS - ALFRED A. KNOPF
- 39. Buyers are less constrained and have Access to a widening set of choices and Armed with better comparative data So that sellers are pressured to make better products THE NECESSITY OF BETTER, FASTER & CHEAPER ROBERT B. REICH - THE FUTURE OF SUCCESS - ALFRED A. KNOPF
- 40. Atlassian Stock IPO 12-10-2015 ‘TEAM’ Atlassian Built Their Culture on Collaboration and Teamwork Source: TheStreet
- 41. Atlassian Stock Four Year Trend 2015 - 2019 Source NYSE.com Stock Ticker Symbol TEAM Share price is the best predictor of its future profitability and current value - Reich
- 42. Atlassian Revenue 2015 - 2019 Atlassian quarterly revenue, 2015-2019 Source www.macrotrends.net 3-8-19 Revenue is increasing 39% year-over-year
- 43. I Don’t Know Where to Start! But, I had an idea Designing My First Workflow Spent Weeks Just Trying to Figure it Out. Finally! - Success - It Worked! Putting the Puzzle Together With All of the Pieces of a Project Innovate - Making a New “Joe”
- 44. I Was Overwhelmed Have you ever feel like you took on more than you could actually do? I Did ! Title Text
- 45. I Don’t Know Where to Start! But, I had an idea. Designing My First Workflow Spent Weeks Just Trying to Figure it Out. Finally! - Success - It Worked! Putting the Puzzle Together With All of the Pieces of a Project Innovate - Making a New “Joe”
- 48. I Don’t Know Where to Start! But, I had an idea. Designing My First Workflow Spent Weeks Just Trying to Figure it Out. Finally! - Success - It Worked! Putting the Puzzle Together With All of the Pieces of a Project Innovate - Making a New “Joe”
- 49. Finally It All Came Together
- 50. After Jira I have a Goal and a Mission I Feel Alive and Invigorated I Never Look Back Before Jira Uncertain About my Future No Direction No Motive but to Keep a Job
- 51. Learn - How I did it Lessons I Learned - You Can Teach an “Old Dog” New Tricks…But Whose Old?
- 52. Where do good ideas come from? A NEW WAY TO THINK - A NEW WAY TO LEARN!
- 53. A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. Albert Einstein - Innovators, Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster
- 54. Elastic Thinking - A bottoms up cognitive style that frees the mind to generate and integrate novel ideas. How to Be a Better Leader with Elastic Thinking - The Startup
- 55. Reframe your questions Be Open to new paradigms Use imagination to create ideas Be willing to accept failure HOW TO BECOME AN ELASTIC THINKER LEONARD MLODINOW - ELASTIC - VINTAGE
- 56. Active Listening Hear what is being said to promote greater understanding Engage in Open-Minded Practices Seek Out Opposing Opinions Listen to them , process the information to understand and react Read Widely Generate new ideas by mining existing bodies of work for more Don’t Be a Spectator Be an active participant by engaging deeply is key to new ideas
- 57. Active Listening Hear what is being said to promote greater understanding Engage in Open-Minded Practices Seek Out Opposing Opinions Listen to them , process the information to understand and react Read Widely Generate new ideas by mining existing bodies of work for more Don’t Be a Spectator Be an active participant by engaging deeply is key to new ideas
- 58. Active Listening Hear what is being said to promote greater understanding Engage in Open-Minded Practices Seek Out Opposing Opinions Listen to them , process the information to understand and react Read Widely Generate new ideas by mining existing bodies of work for more Don’t Be a Spectator Be an active participant by engaging deeply is key to new ideas
- 59. Active Listening Hear what is being said to promote greater understanding Engage in Open-Minded Practices Seek Out Opposing Opinions Listen to them , process the information to understand and react Read Widely Generate new ideas by mining existing bodies of work for more Don’t Be a Spectator Be an active participant by engaging deeply is key to new ideas
- 60. Google is Your Best Friend Searched everything and anything Jira Atlassian Community Like wine, it got much better with age Atlassian Blog Great Blog posts were published which piqued my interest in Agile, Confluence, Bitbucket Learn - How I Did It Atlassian University Get Training and Certification
- 61. Google My Best Friend Searched everything and anything Jira Atlassian Community Like wine, it got much better with age Atlassian Blog Great Blog posts were published which piqued my interest in Agile, Confluence, Bitbucket Learn - How I Did It Atlassian University Get Training and Certification
- 62. Growing together You and other Admins will help each other grow Real Q + A Log in to ask questions and get answers Pro’s helping Pro’s Admins helping Admins with Atlassian’s developers Atlassian Community Get involved What’s keeping you from logging in?
- 63. Google My Best Friend Searched everything and anything Jira Atlassian Community Like wine, it got much better with age Atlassian Blog Great Blog posts were published which piqued my interest in Agile, Confluence, Bitbucket Learn - How I Did It Atlassian University Get Training and Certification Learn - How I Did It
- 64. Google My Best Friend Searched everything and anything Jira Atlassian Community Like wine, it got much better with age Atlassian Blog Great Blog posts were published which piqued my interest in Agile, Confluence, Bitbucket Learn - How I Did It Atlassian University Get Training and Certification Learn - How I Did It Learn - How I Did It
- 65. Get trained Your first stop to stay up tp date and current Learning for all levels Something for everyone Content from the experts Designed by Atlassian SME’s Get certified The road to success Atlassian University
- 66. Get trained Your first stop to stay up tp date and current Learning for all levels Something for everyone Content from the experts Designed by Atlassian SME’s Atlassian University Get certified The road to success
- 67. Get trained Your first stop to stay up tp date and current Learning for all levels Something for everyone Content from the experts Designed by Atlassian SME’s Atlassian University Get certified The road to success
- 68. Get trained Your first stop to stay up tp date and current Learning for all levels Something for everyone Content from the experts Designed by Atlassian SME’s Atlassian University Get certified The road to success
- 69. So where did that leave me? WHAT’S HOLDING YOU IN YOUR CAREER?
- 70. Thriving - Build Your Brand How I created leadership and took ownership of my career +
- 71. Thrive - Build Your Brand Update Your Resume Recruiters react on new and updates to resumes Updating your resume will keep you at the top Flexibility in Work Location Being flexible to relocate opens up many additional opportunities for greater growth Share your Knowledge Use your knowledge and experience with Atlassian Tools & join your local AUG and network
- 72. Share your Knowledge Use your knowledge and experience with Atlassian Tools & join your local AUG and network Thrive - Build Your Brand Update Your Resume Recruiters react on new and updates to resumes updating your resume will keep you at the top Flexibility in Work Location Being flexible to relocate opens up many additional opportunities for greater growth
- 73. Update Your Resume Recruiters react on new and updates to resumes updating your resume will keep you at the top Flexibility in Work Location Being flexible to relocate opens up many additional opportunities for greater growth Thrive - Build Your Brand Share your Knowledge Use your knowledge and experience with Atlassian Tools & join your local AUG and network
- 74. Do you have a 30 second elevator speech?
- 75. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ALBERT EINSTEIN
- 76. Take Aways
- 77. Innovate - Change Yourself If you are not happy with your current job, let your passion guide you to explore the world of Atlassian Learn - Get Certified Enroll in a class and pursue one of the certifications in Atlassian University Thrive - Build Your Brand Use your knowledge and experience with Atlassian Tools, join your local AUG and network Take Aways
- 78. Innovate - Change Yourself If you are not happy with your current job, let your passion guide you to explore the world of Atlassian Learn - Get Certified Enroll in a class and pursue one of the certifications in Atlassian University Thrive - Build Your Brand Use your knowledge and experience with Atlassian Tools, join your local AUG and network Take Aways
- 79. Innovate - Change Yourself If you are not happy with your current job, let your passion guide you to explore the world of Atlassian Learn - Get Certified Enroll in a class and pursue one of the certifications in Atlassian University Thrive - Build Your Brand Use your knowledge and experience with Atlassian Tools, join your local AUG and network Take Aways
- 82. 6500 Recruiting Calls Since 2016
- 83. Build Your Career with Atlassian April 10, 5:45 - 6:30PM Oceanside E
- 84. Thank you for coming! joseph.pursel@ext.airbnb.com
- 85. Q & A