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Helen Beal

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Helen Beal is a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, chief ambassador at DevOps Institute, and ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She is the chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium and co-chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability Technical Committee. She also provides strategic advisory services to DevOps industry leaders such as Atlassian, Moogsoft, and Plutora.

Helen hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk, speaks regularly on DevOps and value stream-related topics, is a DevOps editor for InfoQ, and also writes for a number of other online platforms. She is a co-author of the book about DevOps and governance, Investments Unlimited, published by IT Revolution.

She regularly appears in TechBeacon’s DevOps Top100 lists and was recognized as the Top DevOps Evangelist 2020 in the DevOps Dozen awards and was a finalist for Computing DevOps Excellence Awards’ DevOps Professional of the Year 2021.

She serves on advisory and judging boards for many initiatives, including Developer Week, DevOps World, JAX DevOps, and InterOp.

Outside of DevOps she is an ecologist and novelist. She once saw a flamingo lay an egg and has a particular fondness for llamas.

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    Confluence and Jira: a smarter way for teams to work together

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    How to delegate when you’re wired to do the work

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    4 ways Jira Product Discovery helps program managers drive cross-functional collaboration

    Better alignment, visibility, and collaboration across your organization

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    Human in the Loop Software Development Agents

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    Control the chaos: a smarter approach to planning your work

    Organizations make faster progress when teams share an understanding of where they’re going and how to get there.

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    It’s Never Too Early to Start with Atlassian 🚀

    Three Atlassian programs that support startups

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    Why the power of habits might just live up to the hype

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    Setting clear, achievable goals is essential for personal, team, and business success. Whether you’re looking to improve productivity, align team efforts, or drive strategic initiatives,…

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    Award-winning Atlassian partners are driving customer gains

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    Implementing typography at scale: the journey behind the screens

    Meet Atlassian’s bold new typefaces and discover the journey that brought them to life.

  • California dreaming … it’s Team ’25!!

    California dreaming … it’s Team ’25!!

    Hello, Anaheim! 😎 We’re thrilled to be here at our Team ‘25 conference alongside 5,000 customers, partners, and Atlassians. We’ve been fortunate enough to meet with…

  • Bringing the magic of human-AI collaboration to every team

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    Powerful Rovo search, chat, and agents for all For over 20 years, Atlassian has been in the business of deeply understanding teamwork. Our customers trust…

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