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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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  • Bienvenue RoCoCo!

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  • ShipIt V – HTML diff between Confluence page versions

    For this ShipIt day I chose to implement HTML version diffs for Confluence. Confluence shows the differences between versions in terms of the markup which…

  • ShipIt V — Move Issues Between Jira Instances

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  • ShipIt V – Chatrooms in Confluence

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  • Confluence Page Restrictions

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  • ShipIt V – Filtering spam comments in Confluence…

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  • ShipIt V – Page Ordering for Confluence

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  • Atlassian User Groups: Call for Speakers

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  • ShipIt 5 – Chat Interface to Jira

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  • Using Confluence for UML; 'Agile development needs agile documentation'

    Peter Hilton wrote a terrific article about doing UML design inside of Confluence, instead of a heavy-weight UML authoring tool. As he so aptly says,…

  • Jira Commit Acceptance Plugin 1.1 Released

    We’ve just released an update to our popular Commit Acceptance plugin (see some background here). The plugin can now maintain different configurations for each project…