Webinar: Jira Align: Why It’s Such a Big Deal

October 26, 2020

Come and meet with Dan MacMillan, Director Channel Development and Miles Faulkner CEO, Blended Perspectives to discuss the Align solution.

Jira Align is the premier Scaled Agile transformation application which works in harmony with Jira. We’ll discuss the reasons why this solution is the tool of choice for enterprise transformations. Then we will do a demo of the key features followed by a Q&A. Come join us!

Speakers

Dan MacMillan

Director, Channel Development @Atlassian

Dan is an experienced software executive with more than twenty five years of success building strong client relationships, driving growth, and improving operations through organizational, process, and systems change. He was an early AgileCraft employee, and now post-acquisition continues his work at Atlassian, helping customers leverage Jira Align to achieve enterprise agility.

Derek Huether

Sr. Solutions Engineer at Atlassian

Derek Huether is a member of the Solutions Engineering group at Atlassian, where he helps companies reach better outcomes, transform their organizations and unleash the potential of every team. Over the last 20 years, Derek has helped transform how people work at companies such as Walmart, GEICO, Capital One and more.

Miles Faulkner

CEO at Blended Perspectives

Highly experienced and seasoned IT Services and Project Manager, Agile Scrum Master, PMI, and ITIL certified. He is highly conversant with Atlassian products, especially Jira and Confluence. Miles has a wide experience in both infrastructure and development environments and is responsible for a range of large scale clients and initiatives to radically improve the performance and capability of IT and Business teams. He provides value-added services in best practices for Jira configuration to support software development, ITIL processes as well as project & program management.



Blended Perspectives is an Atlassian Solutions Platinum Partner with experience across various industries and organizations. For over 13 years our certified experts have been providing a full range of services and innovative, cost-effective Agile, Scrum, and Scaled Agile solutions built on Atlassian products – for I.T. and beyond. Our unique, solutions-based offering, is powered by a proprietary set of templates and patterns, tailored to each business practice, process, and complexity, enabling our clients to grow and achieve peak efficiency. We have deep technical skills in all things Atlassian and are also a certified Atlassian Training partner.

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