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DANIEL GREEN • CTO • WIKISTRAT • @WSDAN

The Extraordinarily Motivated Team:Gamification and the Atlassian Tools

What Is Wikistrat

Gamification 101

What is Gamification?

You Probably Played A Game To Get Here

Player TypesElements of Gamification

B A D G E S

P O I N T S

Game Mechanics

L E A D E R B O A R D S

Game Mechanics (P-B-L)Elements of Gamification

A C C E S S

S TAT U S

Reward Mechanics

P O W E R

S T U F F

Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)Elements of Gamification

Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)Elements of Gamification

Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)Elements of Gamification

Reward Mechanisms (S-A-P-S)Elements of Gamification

Gamification with Atlasssian Tools

Level One: Plugins

Level One: Confluence Questions

Level Two: JQL

• Who closed the most issues this week?• Who had the highest number of issues close before the due date?• Which project had the least number of bugs re-opened this month?

Level Two: Confluence Space Activity

How We Did It

Gamifying Confluence

Version 1: Scan The DatabaseGamifying Confluence

• PHP script which was run as a cron job every minute.• Read the last minute of activity• Kept a daily and overall total for each user• We set a scale that would indicate levels• We capped the daily amount to prevent cheating• A leaderboard was added to the Dashboard

Version 2: Categories And The “Active User Badge”Gamifying Confluence

Version 2: Putting Gamification Front And CenterGamifying Confluence

Version 3: A Gamification EngineGamifying Confluence

• Good example: https://github.com/flowdock/flowdock-confluence-plugin

… In Closing

Gamification isn’t an all or nothing

strategy.

Be careful giving tangible rewards.

People know the different between

Fun™ and Fun.

DANIEL GREEN • CTO • WIKISTRAT • @WSDAN

Thank you!

Image Credits

• Dopamine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine • Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-05-19/• Grocery Miles: https://www.webflyer.com/extras/funnies/index.php?toon=22• Frequent Flyer Cards: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/396105729699402348/• Bartle’s Player Types: http://frankcaron.com/2011/07/on-mapping-bartles-player-

types-to-employees/• Frequent Flyer Card: http://biztravelguru.com/2011/10/qantas-platinum-one-frequent-

flyer-membership-full-details-announced/• Flagship Checkin: http://ordtoanywhere.com/2013/07/19/the-new-american-airlines-

flagship-check-in-at-ord/