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Atlassian is a company driven by its principles and values. Jürgen Spangl (CXO) has been a leader at Atlassian since 2012, and he says these values impact everything at the company. This even includes how they approach meetings. Hear how structured sparring sessions and dedicated journey mapping exercises lead to better collaboration and better outcomes.&nbsp;

A passionate User Experience designer with over 20 years experience leading teams and creating user experiences for mobiles, the web, software, and physical products. Jürgen is a highly skilled UX leader with a proven ability to inspire, lead and mentor others. He is a strong proponent of a holistic view on product development — including the product as whole and above all the human perspective within the social and environmental context. With a solid and balanced understanding of the complex relationship between design, business and technology Jürgen acts as a catalyst among the parties involved in product development.

Jürgen is dedicated to promoting the discipline of user experience design. He's teaching human computer interaction and user interface design and is the co-founder of the interaction design get-together Vienna and the usability round table Hamburg.

Jürgen Spangl 

Chief Experience Officer at Atlassian

Atlassian is a company driven by its principles and values. Jürgen Spangl (CXO) has been a leader at Atlassian since 2012, and he says these values impact everything at the company. This even includes how they approach meetings. Hear how structured sparring sessions and dedicated journey mapping exercises lead to better collaboration and better outcomes. 


Jürgen Spangl (Atlassian): Better Meetings = Better Collaboration

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All about Atlassian's values

How Jurgen built Atlassian's design system

Jurgen's role as Chief Experience Officer 

Working cross functionally within customer experience 

How CXOs and CTOs have similar team structures 

Pro tips for managing cross-functional meetings

Assigning purpose to each meeting

How to use journey mapping 

Putting yourself in your customer's mindset

Why customer journeys matter

Sparring meetings: when and how to run them 

Absorbing and implementing feedback from sparring meetings

Organizing feedback from a meeting

Seeking out the right type of feedback 

What makes a good investment from Blake's perspective 

Thinking about post COVID as the next normal

Being human is your superpower