Virtual DFW ACE 4/30/20 Recap

[Angela_Boston]

Thank you to all who attended the first DFW virtual ACE on 4/30/20.  

There were 12 check-ins for the event. We had a good time on the call and hope everyone walked away with new/insightful information. 

The attendees said they would like to see future events focused on some of the following topics.  What do you want to be informed on/discussed/presented at future events?:

1. Jira Align Info and Demos
2. Confluence Content Curation; Best Practices; Apps
3. ScriptRunner

Please take a minute to share your thoughts on remote work with the Community via this link: 

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Off-topic-discussions/What-is-your-1-tip-for-working-remotely/m-p/132453

Thank you to Larry at Praecipio for presenting "Work from Home Thoughts and Observations".  Great content.  

ACE RECAP

VIRTUAL SUMMIT 2020 RECAP: 

• News

  • Free Cloud products

    • New Free tier for teams under 10

  • Trello Business for Educators

    • Free for 1 year

• Server/DC

  • Jira - Coming soon

    • Better Sprints

      • Can add dates to future Sprints

    • Jira Software and Align Connector

  • Portfolio

    • Confluence macro for Portfolio

      • visualize your Portfolio from within Confluence

  • Jira Align

    • Trello Connector

    • OKRs - COMING SOON

  • JSD/DC

    • Better inicident management - COMING SOON

    • Better Queues - COMING SOON

    • Multilingual support - COMING SOON

    • AWS Self Service catalogue

  • Bitbucket and Bamboo

    • BitBucket

      • Better CI/CD support - COMING SOON

        • Think pipelines for Bitbucket DC

      • Better Pull Requests

    • Bamboo

      • Better Branch configurations

  • DC in general

    • Clustering optional, you can just have 1 node

    • Advanced user management

    • Better Auditing - COMING SOON

• Cloud Highlights

  • Atlassian Cloud Premium

    • Jira Software Cloud Premium

    • Confluence Cloud Premium

    • Jira Service Desk Cloud Premium

  • Atlassian Cloud Enterprise

    • In early access

      • Atlassian Access

      • Unlimited Users

      • Sandbox

      • Dedicated support

      • Centralized user billing

      • Data residency

      • Integrated Ecosystem

      • Release tracks

      • 99.95% uptime SLA

  • Busted 10 Myths about moving from Server to Cloud
    1- Cloud and Server are one and the same
    2- Keeping data On Prem is safer than in Cloud
    3- Managing own apps is cheaper than Cloud
    4- Big enterprises are not using Cloud
    5- The production migration is the main event
    6- I don’t need to clean up before moving to Cloud
    7- Apps aren’t available in Cloud
    8- Apps don’t migrate to Cloud [partially busted]
    9- Migration isn’t flexible enough to suit my needs
    10- Cloud migration is too much for my organization to handle
    atlassian.com/get-cloud
    atlassian.com/cloud-migration

  • What’s New in Jira Cloud
    1- Roadmaps
    2- Automations
    3- Trash bin and Archiving Projects
    4- Next Gen

• WFH THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS TAKE-AWAYS
  • Personal Physical and Mental Health
    • Too much news is not a good thing
    • Find alternative activities to occupy your mind
      • Some Good News - John Krasinski Youtube Channel
      • Good News Network - positive and uplifting news stories (goodnewsnetwork.org)
  • Organizations
    • Organizations are outsourcing or adding on-demand staffing of support functions
    • Organizations are re-tooling to support more virtual work
    • Organizations are frequently struggling with training remote workers
  • Remotely Working Effectively
    • Less meetings, more collaboration
    • Set habits that help keep the work/life boundary defined
    • Define and "office" space where only work happens