Developers: What if someone said you’d never have to meet with marketing again?
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2023/01/25/atlassian_extends_automation_to_confluence/
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The Jira project tracking tool is widely used by software development teams and Atlassian acquired Code Barrel to automate chores like handling issues or dealing with support tickets.
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In conversation with The Register , Dilani Kahawala, head of product for Atlassian’s automation platform, offered the scenario of a software team completing work on a new release that will be the subject of new release notes, a blog post, and needs its own branch in a Git repository or Atlassian’s own BitBucket.
The company has extended automation from Jira to Confluence to make that sort of thing easier: finishing the new version would auto-create the new branch, see the release notes posted for approval, and marketing alerted it’s time to publish that blog post.
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Developers might not have to explain themselves ever again!
Automation could then extend to managing the lifecycle of those actions, so the next version sees the old release notes shuffled down the stack.
Atlassian has done this because it believes organizations want automation that isn’t dedicated to siloed functions, and may even be ready to replace automation tools focused on particular functions with collaborationware capable of linking wider teams.
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Of course Atlassian would say that, because as Confluence has grown from an enterprise Wiki to a more comprehensive collaboration platform, it’s used by more teams.
Automation for Confluence won’t cost customers any more beyond their current commitments, and will be a native feature of the product. It quietly debuted in the Premium and Enterprise versions of the suite a few days ago, and at the time of writing should be available to all paid up users. ®
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Re: Sorry
> Who are these people
Makers of Jira and Confluence, products which are surprisingly widely used in organisations that develop software, including my employer.
> and what benefit do they provide?
No idea.
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Marketing is the business of selling projects to management
The company has extended automation from Jira to Confluence to make that sort of thing easier: finishing the new version would auto-create the new branch, see the release notes posted for approval, and marketing alerted it’s time to publish that blog post.
What? The idea of marketing being ready to do anything other than insist on last-minute changes is mind-boggling. Certainly if Atlassian are keen on bringing marketing closer to developers, many developers will be updating their CV's. Not to mention the project managers who won't enjoy being bypassed.
As for Confluence, if it's any better than a plain old Wiki I have yet to see it. My recent experience tells me that it's only as good as the people using it. Garbage in, garbage piled everywhere.
Never Speaking to Marketing Again
... would be far-more distressing to me than dealing with them. If nobody from the tech side educates them on what the product does, and does not do , and what the realistic schedule is, you end up with them selling the moon, to be delivered in one week, and your boss' boss' boss issuing an edict that the tech teams will "change the program to do that."
(Even if you do educate Marketing, that bad result might happen, but at least you had taken a shot at minimizing the likelihood of it happening.)
What if someone said you’d never have to meet with marketing again?
What if someone said instead that you’d never have to use Jira or Confluence again?
Tough choice.
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Re: What if someone said you’d never have to meet with marketing again?
Not really. Some of the people in Marketing are quite nice, in a social setting.
Sorry
Who are these people and what benefit do they provide? Because it all sounds over-complicated for... what?