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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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  • Finding State Leaks in JUnit Tests

    A unit test is failing when run as part of a test suite. When you run the test on its own, the test passes. The…

  • Taking control of Jira

    I liked to think that Jira has a pretty excellent UI. It’s what originally attracted me to the product when I purchased it for the…

  • The Development Cascade

    Imagine one of those Russian dolls, except that each time you open a doll up, you find a larger one inside, TARDIS-style. Welcome to my…

  • Ten Across

    The scary thing is that it took me so long to work it out.

  • New Excel Macro

    With the new Excel Macro, you can now attach an Excel spreadsheet to your Confluence page and have the table data show up as page…

  • Christmas Party

    The Atlassian crew at Christmas on Sydney Harbour. What a fantastic way to see the city, shoot a few clay pigeons (lasers only, don’t worry…

  • Code names, naming schemes and developer humour

    The planning process for Confluence 2.2 reminded me that one of the quirky things I love about all technology companies is the strange way they…

  • Confluence 2.1 Wiki: Ready for the Holidays

    Atlassian announces the release of Confluence 2.1, the enterprise wiki. Coming just 3-weeks after the major 2.0 release, Confluence 2.1 enhances the wiki’s legendary ease…

  • Confluence 2.1 Now Available

    Confluence 2.1 introduces autosave and concurrent editing warnings, integrates the atlassian-user user-management library including much-improved LDAP support, and improves the performance of the dashboard and…

  • Reducing JUnit memory usage

    A little tip for those writing any form of “JUnit”:http://www.junit.org tests (this includes functional tests with JWebUnit or any derivative test frameworks based on JUnit).…

  • Confluence Calendar Plugin

    I’m pleased to announce the imminent release of the Confluence Calendar Plugin (RC1).

  • You want support with that?!

    I just thought this picture of Jens was too amusing to not be posted: *You want support with that?!* I’m not the best captioneer though.…

  • Watch out for falling User Objects

    Changes are afoot in the Confluence codebase for the upcoming AtlassianUser library. There are a few things that are important for you, as plugin developers,…

  • More mail in your inbox!

    I’ve set up a new mailing list for the Developer Network Subversion repository. We’re using SVN-Notify to email any commit to the repository out to…

  • The Economics of Bug-fixing

    Eric Sink has a great post about the realities of fixing bugs. Bottom line: every bug has both a benefit and a cost, and you’d…