Session Abstract

We all know the pain: development team using Azure DevOps, project managers living in Project and Planner, and product owners trying desperately to keep it all above water. Full disclosure: I am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and I always try to stick to their tech stack. I wrote about Planner, I spoke about Project Server at conferences, and I was sticking to DevOps when nobody else wanted to. But what I faced was my team passively resisting those tools. Bugs would go to DevOps to die, I was the only one maintaining the Plans in Planner, and Project... well, yeah. After few years of "living with it", in the beginning of 2022 we finally decided to move everything to ClickUp, and three years after, I can just say that our team loves it. In this session, I'll share our journey - both the good and the challenging parts - of unifying project management and work items management on a single platform. I'll walk you through: * Why we chose ClickUp over other alternatives (Hint: we never even considered Jira) * How we migrated our dev processes from Azure DevOps * How we for the first time had a proper Project Management platform that EVERYBODY was using * How we integrated it with the rest of Microsoft stack (primarily Teams and GitHub) * Real challenges we faced and how we solved them * What worked great and what we had to work around * Most importantly: How it improved visibility and collaboration between our dev/tech and our marketing/sales teams * Bonus: we almost don't use Excel anymore. I not going to try to evangelize you in this session, and I'm not paid by ClickUp. I was just that poor fellow who needed to find a solution for a problem, and I pretty much think I did.

Note to event organizers

This is a product management session

Adis Jugo

Creator, lead architect, and mastermind at run.events. An Information Technology professional with 30 years of professional experience, Event Tech specialist, Event Organizer, and Public Speaker with over 400 public speaking sessions in the past 25 years. A Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, and a Microsoft Regional Director. Spiritus movens at CollabSummit and CloudSummit. Firmly believes in leading by example and motivation. Lives beside the oldest vineyard in the Rhine valley. Prefers collecting stories to collecting possessions. Can make his wife and kids laugh anytime.

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