Bill Cushard

Bill Cushard covers the intersection of learning, software adoption, and customer success. His career has focused on helping companies adopt disruptive software through learning, change management, communications, and implementations that help people get the most out the software.

Bill Cushard is also the author of the 2018 book, The Art of Agile Marketing: A Practical Roadmap for Implementing Kanban and Scrum in Jira and Confluence.

Recent Posts

Atlassian Summit Day 2 Recap: Software Teams Keynote

At the end of day 2 of the Atlassian Summit 2015, Eric Wittman, General Manager of Developer Tools at Atlassian delivered the Atlassian for Software Teams Keynote. Here is a collection of backchannel tweets to help tell the back story about what was announced in the keynote.
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Interview with Mikey Schott, Coauthor of Practical JIRA Administration

After my interview with Matt Doar, I had the opportunity to interview Mikey Schott, Technical Consultant and Coauthor of the book, Practical JIRA Administration: Using JIRA Effectively Beyond the Documentation. Mikey Schott contributed entirely new topics to the book to address specific issues he helps JIRA administrators with every day. I caught up with Mikey while he was on the east coast of the U.S., between JIRA training classes.
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Atlassian DJs Running a Mix with a JIRA Agile Kanban Board

Atlassian kicked off Summit with an opening keynote worthy of its reputation. It all started with Kanban DJ and proceeded with exciting announcements from Atlassian. This is a collection of backchannel tweets that occurred during the Opening Keynote on Wednesday, October 4, 2015.
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Interview with Matt Doar, Author of Practical JIRA Administration 4th Update

Recently, I sat down with Matt Doar, Chief Toolsmith at ServiceRocket and author of the O'Reilly book, Practical JIRA Administration: Using JIRA Effectively Beyond the Documentation. Not only is the book updated to reflect changes to JIRA, but entirely new topics have been added, thanks to contributions from Mikey Schott.
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Atlassian Summit 2015 Opening Night Fireside Chat

Atlassian Summit 2015 kicked off Tuesday, November 2 with a Fireside chat with Atlassian co-founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes and Atlassian President Jay Simons. Much of the conversation focused on culture, which is a key element of Atlassian's success.
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Does Your Executive Team Have A Communications Dashboard in Confluence?

One of the best ways an executive team can communicate to everyone in the company is by blogging. And blogging regularly. But how does an executive know that blogging efforts are having the intended effect?
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