🎉 Showcase Your Internal Atlassian Event

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G'Day Community Members,

Have you recently hosted an internal Atlassian-focused event—like a Jira best practices session, migration workshop, Confluence training, or an Atlassian roadshow at your company?

We’d love for you to showcase your event!

Sharing your story not only celebrates your hard work, but also:

• Inspires other community members with ideas they can borrow or adapt

• Highlights creative ways teams are driving Atlassian adoption

• Helps us understand what’s working inside organizations like yours

💡 What We’re Curious to Learn

When you share your recap, consider including insights like:

• Participation & Engagement
  How many people attended? How engaged were they—questions, chats, polls, hands-on activities?

• Content & Resources
  What topics did you cover? Did you use Atlassian resources (decks, guides, demos) or create your own?

• Impact & Adoption
  Are you seeing changes in how teams use Atlassian tools after the event (new projects, pages, workflows, requests)?

• Learnings for Next Time
  What worked particularly well? What would you change or improve?

These details help other leaders learn from your experience and run better events of their own.

📝 Event Showcase Template (Copy & Customize)

Use the template below for your Community post. Just copy, fill in the brackets, and adjust as needed.

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Event Name:

[e.g., “Jira Best Practices for Project Leads”]

Atlassian Products Featured:

[e.g., Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Atlas, Bitbucket, Trello]

🎯 Event Goal

[In 2–3 sentences, describe the purpose of the event.
e.g., “Help project leads standardize how they use Jira boards” or “Onboard new team members to Confluence for documentation.”]

📚 Agenda & Format

[Briefly outline the structure, e.g.:]

• 10 min – Intro & context

• 20 min – Live demo

• 20 min – Hands-on exercise or Q&A

• 10 min – Next steps & resources

🔑 Key Takeaways

• [Takeaway 1 – e.g., “Teams now understand how to use components and labels consistently.”]

• [Takeaway 2]

• [Takeaway 3]

🙌 Engagement Highlights

[Share a memorable question, a great discussion point, or an “aha” moment.
e.g., “Once we showed how to link Jira issues to Confluence pages, several teams asked to adopt that pattern immediately.”]

📎 Resources & Materials

[Link to anything you’re able to share publicly:]

• [Slide deck or recording (if available)]

• [Confluence templates or example pages]

• [Sample Jira projects/boards or workflows]

• [Any Atlassian resources you used or adapted]

📈 Early Signs of Impact

[Describe any changes you’re seeing or expecting, e.g.:]

• “More teams requested Jira projects after the session.”

• “We received follow-up questions about automations and reports.”

• “Confluence page creation increased in the week after the event.”

✅ What Went Well

[Call out what worked: format, timing, communication, activities, speakers, etc.]

🔄 What You’d Improve Next Time

[Be honest—this is what helps the community most. Timing? Level of depth? Tools? Promotion?]

📸 Photos & Screenshots (Optional but Encouraged!)

[Attach or link photos from in-person sessions, screenshots from virtual events, or snippets of boards/pages (with sensitive info removed).]

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🚀 Ready to Share?

When you’re done filling this in, post it to this thread so others can learn from your approach. Tag the Atlassian products you featured and any relevant groups so the right audience can discover your story.

Your experiences are shaping how teams everywhere adopt Atlassian tools—thanks for taking the time to share them!

[tradian]

Just submitted my first feedback after today's successful training session! 

[Chris Shernaman]

Thanks so much, @tradian! We'd love to hear the exciting highlights from your training session. Would you be able to share in this thread?

[tradian]

I work in the Technology group at an Insurance company. The session I hosted was the Jira Software Essentials Training, and there was a headcount of 30 participants, including myself. Our Instructor was Emma W. from Thinkado, she's great!

• Participation Levels: A very engaged group of 30 participants.
• Resource Usage: I did refer to the content library; however, since this was a training versus a CUG meeting, I leveraged my internal communications skills, tools, and references, a couple of Atlassian reference links such as "Getting started with Jira" on Atlassian Learning, and the "Jira Software Essentials" Exam page.
• Overall Experience: Overall, I had a positive experience. To be honest, I didn't expect the session to be very fundamental (easier than expected). We had various levels of experience with using Jira, so I hope to get critical feedback from participants.
• Product Adoption: Definitely, everyone in Tech is expected to be using Jira. We are also expanding to our business partners so increase in adoption is a yes.

I had two members who reached out with an interest in joining the Success Champions Program, @Chris Shernaman. Is the next step applying for the program?

I think it'll be great for me to have 1-2 other colleagues to support the quarterly CUGs at my company. 

[Prateek]

That’s a fantastic recap, @tradian! Hosting a Jira Software Essentials Training for 30 participants is no small feat — and it’s great to hear the group was so engaged. Your approach to blending Atlassian resources with internal communication tools shows a strong understanding of how to tailor content for diverse experience levels.

The fact that two members expressed interest in the Success Champions Program speaks volumes about the impact of your session. It’s exciting to see how training initiatives like this not only boost product adoption but also spark leadership and advocacy within the organization.

Looking forward to hearing how your team continues to scale these efforts and deepen Jira adoption across departments. Keep leading from the front! 💪 #CUGLeadership #JiraTraining #AtlassianChampions #CommunityImpact

[Eminium]

Born to be free

[Chris Shernaman]

@tradian , I previously emailed about the next steps, but we've received many questions from others interested in having multiple colleagues join as Success Champions to lead their internal communities. To clarify: Yes, your colleagues can apply to become Success Champions, provided they are actively helping to develop and grow your internal community through activities such as hosting best practice sessions, onboarding new users, and attending or leading their Center of Excellence (CoE) meetings to share Atlassian solutions, among other responsibilities.

Here are the criteria to become a Success Champion (all within a 90-day period):
• Host at least one training session
• Develop and conduct at least one onboarding session for new users
• Create a product knowledge Space to document governance for their users
• Promote Atlassian Learning to help users get certified
• Complete our Post-Meeting Survey after every event, whether small or large

Next steps:
1. Share the details of the Atlassian Champion program
2. Send them the application form - select Success Champion
3. Encourage them to join the Atlassian Community and this Company User Group discussion group

Please note, this program is still in Beta, and we have a waitlist. Meeting the criteria and staying active will help you progress on the track. If some customers fall below the activity threshold, we can move others from the waitlist into the Beta.

Please let us know if you have any questions. We're here to help!

[tradian]

Thanks, @Chris Shernaman

I've cascaded the message and am working with a peer to host our first internal workshop this year! I hope to share feedback with everyone. Initiation in progress!

[Chris Shernaman]

Keep us posted @tradian and please let us know if we can help. Looking forward to hearing all about your first workshop!