Say hello and tell us: what's on your desk?

[Erica Moss]

Happy birthday, @Leo Diaz - Deiser! Hope it was a great one. 🎉

[Erica Moss]

Hello and welcome, @Meg Holbrook! I think we all need that mug on our desks. 🙈 I love hearing that you'd like to get more involved in the community — I'll send you a note with some suggestions!

[Erica Moss]

@Meg Holbrook The email I just sent you bounced back to me, so feel free to reach out with any questions! emoss AT atlassian dot com

[Meg Holbrook]

Hey @Community Manager, for some reason my profile settings are not syncing with my Atlassian account settings. I will email you. 

[Erica Moss]

@Meg Holbrook Great!

[Meg Holbrook]

I relogged and it all seems to be fixed now. 

[Darrell Sutherland]

Hi folks 

My name is Darrel and I am a systems administrator for Capgemini UK supporting the atlassian tools, jira, confluence, fisheye, bamboo and bitbucket for a major UK Government department... We have a clear desk policy so just the monitors and a pic of my 3 lads keep me focussed throughout the working day.

Glad to meet everyone!

[Erica Moss]

Welcome, @Darrell Sutherland! 👋🏼

[Meg Holbrook]

I need more Rick and Morty in my workday.

[Deleted user]

Hi, I'm Marina. I am working as operations manager at a company for herdbook software and genetic evaluation for livestock in Switzerland. We are using Jira, Confluence and ServiceDesk. One year ago we started to use Tempo Timesheets for timetracking which makes invoicing a lot easier. 

I started implententing Jira in our processes nearly two years ago and meanwhile it would be hard to work without all these great tools. I did most of the administration to fit Jira and helped to set up Confluence spaces. Now most of the administration is done in a small team of three people and I am happy not to do all this on my own.

In my spare time I like being outdoor. I go trailrunning, hiking, kayaking and I've got a passion for riding road bike - and Switzerland is a great country for all of these activities 😉

As you see, I try to keep my desk simple but with some color. Colored notes and my coffee to go cup to keep it warm!

And: today is my birthday - so it's all a little bit relaxed! 🎉

[Anurag Jalan]

@[deleted] Welcome & Happy B'day. Now all we want is party 

[Thomas Schlegel]

@[deleted] - Viele Grüße in die Schweiz und herzlichen Glückwunsch nachträglich zu deinem Geburtstag!

[Erica Moss]

@[deleted] Love the pops of color here! And happy birthday! 🎉

[rajesh dasaratharaman]

Hello All,

Rajesh here from Chennai. Looking forward to Learn Best Practices and Share my thoughts.

[Erica Moss]

@rajesh dasaratharaman Welcome to the party! 😄

[Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}]

Hey Meg!

As a user group leader, I connected with your comment about small groups and just wanted to encourage you to bring folks from the teams you've onboarded (and even ones you're trying to convince)! We've had new people attend our AUG and things "clicked" for them after seeing how other companies were using the products. Seeing it in your own environment is definitely awesome, but sometimes seeing generic usage helps people get their minds out of "my own work problems" and just focus on what the tool can do.

Nice to meet you and looking forward to upvoting your answers! :)

[Meg Holbrook]

Thanks Daniel! 

Agree that seeing examples is hugely beneficial. 

[Markus Knoll]

Hi All,

I'm Markus from Germany, Saarland. I start Atlassian 5 years ago als User and go my way to Administrator. We use Confluence, Jira Software and Servicedesk, Stride and Trello. I'm very sad about the out of hipchat.

I'm also look for Best Practices and Share. Help on Problems and join nice People. I was last year in Barca on the European Summit, it was awesome.

So thats all for first time :-)

Markus

[Monique vdB]

@Markus Knoll, wilkommen! Sounds like you are building expertise on many of our products. Maybe a future Community Champion? :) 

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hallo @Markus Knoll,

viele Grüße aus Hamburg ins Saarland und willkommen in der Community!  

[Amy Marley]

G'day All, 

I'm Amy from Perth, Australia, an accountant turned software tester/admin by default type user. Learning how to balance working from home while being a parent!

We currently use Jira, Confluence and Capture and know there are features we can use better or don't use at all. 

I try to keep my desk minimal with just the screens, keyboard, drink bottle and pen/scrap paper but at the moment also have a pile of kid's books to repair on it too. 

Looking forward to moving my desk from next to my bed to outside in its new place... 

[Monique vdB]

G'day, @Amy Marley! Is that a private office? I'm so jealous! We have a garage I sometimes think I could convert to an office, but it's too full of stuff. 🤣

Looks beautiful! 

[Amy Marley]

Thanks @Monique vdB. I hope it to be just private office, but in reality I think it will be an office/storage/kids play-room!! 

[Monique vdB]

@Amy Marley I know what you mean. My daughter has a room and a closet that should be enough to hold her stuff, but somehow we have art supplies and toys and games everywhere! Right now it's a race: will I have time to get organized before she grows up and goes to college? We'll see! The clock is ticking, I only have ten years left! 

[Amy Marley]

My girls are 3 and 1, I hope that clicking clock race isn't over too fast for either of us...but 10 + years... its still a long race! hehehe... good luck!