Team ‘23 day 3 - final day
Day 3 luckily quietened down a little. Today had Less speaker sessions but still a lot to digest. I Spent time anytime outside some of the vendor speak sessions walking around the expo hall to see marketplace partners that I had not really interacted with before. Its always important to understand what is new and exciting, even if it seems like a kind in the candy shop purely as you can often find those little gems to solve those challenges.
Tempo announced the acquisition of Old street solutions officially. While there were some good rumours flying around the ecosystem, we officially got the notice during Team ‘23 that this did happen. Great work by Tempo and Old street to have the happen in time. For a full run down on what happened, click here. Personally I am a massive fan for what Old street brought to the marketplace with custom charts. Any long standing Jira user will know that while JQL is powerful, the charting mechanisms for it aren't. Custom charts bridges that gap by allowing any user to create intuitive gadgets from simple to complete queries, as well as have very customisable charting groups. I have been a user of both Tempo and Custom charts for years, so it is very exciting to see where this partnership ends up.
Today's big event for myself was (plug incoming) myself and Appfire presenting 3 solutions to help scale practices within your Atlassian ecosystem. We focused on how to best escalate to let's using JMWE, auto archive or delete projects using PowerScripts and finally, ensuring policy documents are kept up to date using Conala Document Management. Evn, Tyler and I had great fun working on this project together since February and it was an absolute privilege and honour to have presented with Appfire. We will be doing more on this topic in the near future.
To end all Team events is Bash. The Atlassian party. A great way to end a busy week of meetings and conversations. Bash allows us all to let our hair down and have some fun. We were treated to some great singing and some spray art swag as if we were from the early naughties once more.
While I write this from the plane on the return journey, I am sat here wondering whether I can say I have had the value from this trip. The Team events have changed since COVID. Some are still worried about travelling. Others don't see it as much of a priority I'm sure. But, according to those that have had the opportunity to attend the events since before COVID, they all unimously felt this year was putting the events on a path to return to previous years.
Away from the sessions, partner conversations provided us with real insight as to their roadmaps as well as providing me with the ever so important, “I can make that bit of the process so much better”, or “wow, that challenge I had won't even exist if we came at it from here”. All in all, I felt the conversations this year were far better then the last. Now let's return back to the sessions. Were they worth it. Simple answer is yes. I wish Atlassian would do things slightly differently, but yes they were still worth it. The learn how and new features help us understand the way the market is shaping and where Atlassian is focusing.
Finally, this year compared to last have us a better, fuller and more diverse expo hall. More companies returned to Team23 giving us more topics and paths for improvement. I spent all three days from open to close in the hall or in sessions and I genuinely felt like I almost wouldn't see everything.
So let's now answer the big questions.
Would I recommend the event? Absolutely yes!!
Will I be going next year? Of course
