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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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  • Migration to JPA: experts wanted

    In the Confluence team, we’re investigating an upgrade of our data access layer of Hibernate 2 with Spring 1.1 to a shiny new OpenJPA and…

  • Java User Group (JUG) Sponsorships

    Many companies have sponsorships for their respective user groups. In addition to Atlassian User Group sponsorship, we also support Java User Groups. Over the past…

  • From manual to automatic

    When Crowd first became an Atlassian product it was built using a bunch of ant scripts and lived in CVS, this is quite common for…

  • Calling all social change projects: Present at NetSquared

    If you’re working on an innovative project that uses social media technology to advance social change, then this is for you: In May 2007, 350…

  • ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer: Using patterns to grow wiki adoption

    I just finished my guest blogging stint for ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer with a post about how to encourage wiki adoption in your organization. The…

  • Confluence and Jira Win Jolt Awards

    Great night yesterday at the SD West tradeshow. After a nice introductory presentation from Craig Newmark, awards were handed out at the 17th annual Jolt…

  • T-shirts 2.0

    Say ‘hello’ to the new and improved Atlassian t-shirts. They’re guaranteed to be the best way to turn heads and get attention in your office!…

  • Lessons from Firefox: #6 – Think globally

    This is the sixth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts…

  • Wiki goes to Oxford (Englsh Dictionary that is)

    CNET reports: This word born on the Pacific Island of Hawaii finally got an entry into the latest edition of the online Oxford English Dictionary…

  • Starting an Atlassian User Group

    Last August, one of our partners, IntelliObjects, suggested the idea of holding and sponsoring a user group. Sounded like a good idea to us. We…

  • Lessons from Firefox: #5 – Think hybrid

    This is the fifth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts…

  • Lessons from Firefox: #4 – Nurture renegades

    This is the fourth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts…

  • Confluence adoption in the trenches

    Simon posts a terrific article about driving Confluence adoption in his consulting firm. There are some really good tips in here about the techniques he’s…

  • Confluence Portlets for Oracle Webcenter

    I’ve been doing a bunch of portlet development recently. Most recently, I’ve focused on portlets that can work in an Oracle portal environment.

  • Poll: What’s the Best Polling Software

    Thanks to my post yesterday, I now know what the worst polling software is. Nothing quite like the smell of napalm in the morning… except…