Governance, Authority and Strategy

This week I have been a bit preoccupied with finding a new job. I have had 4 interviews this week and this weekend I have been wrestling with a decision as I have 3 very good work opportunities to choose from. Despite this I have been putting in some work on my book and I have added a fair bit of text in the Governance, Authority and Strategy chapters. I have also made some updates in other areas to clear some things up and revise things.

In the Authority section I added information about leadership with the goal to define 8 leadership styles and how to use them in your role as Atlassian administrator. I know not a lot of Atlassian administrators think about leadership as they are often in a servant position, but I want to make it clear that you need to take lead when you have ownership over a work tool that very often is business critical.

This then bled over to the Strategy section where I added information on organization maturity with some paragraphs about the user adoption process and the user adoption curve. I also started to add information on how to define product and platform criticality using the application criteria and criticality scale. While this is a fairly small part, it is important to be able to do this and show it to management in case you need to show how business critical the Atlassian platform is in an organization. It is also important so you can direct your strategies to the actual criticality so you don't act too lose or too strict in relation to it.

In the Governance I have started to add sections for how to work if your organization have governance and if it does not have. This is mostly for when you don't have it, which is the norm I think, as that can be really tricky and easily burn you out.

The last page is now page 98, but there are some half pages and whole pages still in that mix. Still there is progress, and I am not feeling any writer's block. It is just the process of getting a new job that is taking up most of my attention at the moment, but that should change soon.