Process Improvements
Innovation
Making It Happen
Getting It Out There
New and Improved
100

These two migrated the CMS to a more maintainable and flexible solution that enables new ways of integrating information.

Who are Joe Angeles and Andrew Hock?

100

This feature is an industry-first innovative new way to unlock insights into end-users' most traveled journeys across business applications - and view performance every step of the way.

What is Experience Journey Mapping?  Thank Ian, Truc, Rob, and Ally!

100

This person has launched & released several versions of the data supplier plugin, querying production controllers to bring actual data to designs.

Who is Shy?

100

This novel virus made it's way across the globe in early 2020, forcing us to face a new way of life with Shelter in Place, wearing masks, and working from home.

What is Covid-19?

100

This concept has blown our minds by giving us an innovative and extensible framework on which to build our new product interface.

What is Hypergraph?  THANK YOU Malte, Joe, Dan, Jannifer, and more....

200

We should stand this far away from others in order to maintain appropriate "Social Distancing".

What is 6 Feet?
200

This newly released feature enables users to monitor their multi-application environments more easily by managing alerting configurations centrally and applying them globally.

What is Alerting Templates?  Thanks Moupiya, Jason, Nina, Kanika, and Archana!

200

Jason, Jenna, and Nina each contributed to this, detailing their experience with Lessons in Enterprise Research, the DesignOps Summit, and Going Big (but please stay home).

What is the Design@AppD blog?

200

Jordan championed our use of this product by driving several unmoderated studies. It is a huge step forward for us to scale our user research practice.

What is Validately?

200

Thanks to the effort by this person, users now have the ability to self service manage their University subscriptions.

Who is Vasavi?

300

Do you know how to make sure you're legally covered when recording user sessions for research?  This person made sure we're all in the know by documenting and posting in Confluence.

Who is Andrea Evans?

300

This person developed our first comprehensive InfoDev Style Guide that we maintain and develop, and which has also been shared with the Education team.

Who is Sue McCoy?

300

Multiple teams have hosted virtual versions of these - enabling their teams to rapidly iterate, prototype, and test a new design.

What are Design Sprints?  THANK YOU Thao, Jannifer, Ian, Dan, Moupiya, Eric and more!  And especially Andrea and Jordan who has been been instrumental in putting these together and documenting how to make them happen.

300

Not only has this person been driving the charge for end user experiences in Reimagine, but has also dedicated time to sharing resources, leading employee resource groups, and striving for a more inclusive company culture at AppDynamics.

Who is Truc?

300

This person was our first hire to be onboarded during our mandatory WFH. We've still never actually met them, so it's unclear if they're real or just a hologram...

Who is Helen Wu?

400

This person took Particle designs to the next level with monthly iterations and releases. We're currently at version 2.7.

Who is Shy?

400

SpaceX made history when it launched NASA astronauts into space on this commercially built spacecraft.

What is the Falcon 9 Rocket?

400

100% of docs, as well as diagrams and images with instructional text were translated into this language.

What is Japanese?  Thank you Ellen (and others)!!

400

A huge step forward in our Reimagine journey was building FMM into this BETA release.

What is the Comparisons BETA?  Thank you Dan, Joe L., Nina, and Ondine!!

400

This new deadly wasp arrived in the US and everyone was terrified of them for about a week.

What are the Murder Hornets?

500

This team helped the Reimagine team move to working in Sprints and planning and tracking all progress in Jira.

What is DesignOps?  Thanks Jenna and John!

500

Thanks the this effort Admins now have a single pane window view into their Accounts (System Status, Professional Service Projects, Support tickets, License usage, etc).

What is Company Overview page?  Thanks Thao!

500

This person conducted user studies right before GA to help this team iterate and was recognized as the most thoughtful execution of research studies in the course of ZFI.

Who is Lexi?

500

This designer is creating a consistent experience within the Reimagine/AI-ops platform, providing a clear framework for designers to build entity, domain, use case workflows that can be specialized as needed.

Who is Jannifer?

500

With this new UI, users are able to enable, edit, and disable this configuration properties without writing any Javascript Code.

 What is the improved JS agent configuration experience in BRUM? THANK YOU Eric Mao, Nina, Lexi, Ally, and Truc!!

600

Joe Catera simplified and organized these notes, turning what used to be 31 pages into 5 succinct pages.

What are the Release Notes?  Thanks Joe Catera

600

This person developed an automated system of tracking component status, integrated with specs, sketch files, and code scanning features.

Who is Joe Angeles?

600

This artist made it happen when they launched a new album with only 16 hours of notice.  Notable songs include "The 1", "Invisible String", and "Betty".

Who is Taylor Swift?

600

v2 of this launched on Particle, giving guidelines on content, grammar, and formatting.

What is the In Product Style Guide?  THANKS Nina

600

Not only does this person masquerade as flower online, but they have been crucial in the evolution of our dashboarding experience.

Who is Saeam?

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