And since that is a volunteer role, it’s natural that after a few cycles, the local sponsor / champion is ready to pass the baton to someone else. As a global company, one of the challenges we face at Atlassian is ensuring that there is a local sponsor / champion in each of our geos / time zones. Hey P_ Dela Rosa , great question! Like with any (semi-)mature event, there are lots of “invisible” details that go into planning ShipIt. And in the end, it was more important to preserve the event and pivot to virtual / remote rather than discontinue it on account of COVID. Put differently, in my opinion, ShipIt is core to Atlassian’s culture. We have continued to improve over the past 18+ months, which is a good thing because, in retrospect, the biggest lesson I learned was that culture is your heart, not in your hallways. Going from an atmosphere that was primarily office-based to one that was exclusively remote was absolutely the right call but we certainly experienced some “speed bumps” along the way. In the end, we decided to proceed but to pivot to a remote-only event (because, of course, all of our offices were hard-closed). We debated both sides and outlined as many pros/cons as we could imagine. At first, we had to make a fundamental “root” decision: to proceed or cancel. Hi thank you for asking. When COVID forced our global TEAM to shift to WFH in mid-March 2020, we had to pivot quickly because we had a pre-planned ShipIt coming up in mid-April.
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