Dealmaking - How to Make Both Sides Happy (Case Study)

Integration

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Making Integration Successful from Both Sides of the Deal

In this webinar, you will learn how to make sure both sides are happy at the end of a deal. Hear lessons learned from Atlassian team members and what practices they applied to integration that created an extremely successful outcome.

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"Agile is perfect for integration because integration never goes exactly the way you think." - Steve Elliott.

"Whatever tools you have, if you don't have willing participants and people that are open to that type of working model, it's not gonna work." - Christina Amiry

In this episode, Christina Amiry, Head of M&A Strategic Operations, Integration at Atlassian, and Steve Elliott, Head of Jira Align at Atlassian, talk about making integration successful from both sides of the deal.

Christina and Steve discuss Atlassian's acquisition of Jira, what made it successful, how they foster an environment for success, and what type of mindset is necessary to make every acquisition successful.

Christina Amiry

Christina Amiry is a Chief of Staff and strategic operations leader at Adobe, focused on turning executive priorities into operating rhythms, cross-functional alignment, and execution systems. She previously held several strategic operations roles at Atlassian, including Chief of Staff to the President, Chief of Staff to the COO, Head of Business Rhythms, and Head of M&A Integration. Earlier at Salesforce, she led technical program management and technology strategy work across cloud infrastructure, site reliability, and M&A technology integration.

Steve Elliott

Steve Elliott is the Head of Jira Align at Atlassian. He is an established software executive with 20 years of technology experience in a variety of industries, and as of late is Founder and CEO of a software startup based in Austin, Texas that helps companies scale their agile development methods with products to facilitate agile forecasting, SAFe / agile assessments, multi-tiered collaboration, gamification and bottleneck visualization.

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