Andy - PTC Redundant Expert

Atlassian Open – Vienna 2019 What can be said about this week’s inaugural Open in Vienna? Amazing? Epic? Fantastic? Exceptional? All of those words and more… grab a dictionary, start at the beginning and just highlight every word synonymous with “time of your life”. That is probably the best way I could describe it for me.…

I must be a complete moron.... how do I set WIP limit? I cannot find the setting ANYWHERE. :o ( [I am on the cloud version, using a Kanban Board]

COMMUNITY SHOWCASE – FUN MAN ANDY “Showcases spotlight Atlassian Leaders who make a big impact on our Community. The Atlassian Community Team taps Leaders to share more about themselves and their Atlassian journeys, and that Leader in turn passes the torch (and question set) to another Leader they regard highly. This time…

HAPPY VALENTINE'S YOU CRAZY LOVE BIRDS! 💖🦢 Yesterday was the most romantic day of the year... but it's not always so popular. Some people love it and celebrate it to the max. Others detest it and really wish it did not exist. Love it or hate it, it is well and truly a part of life. It is here to stay! Ever the romantic! I…

What is the definition of "early"? I like to do as many Miscellaneous Monday posts as possible, preferably every other week if other Community members aren't around. That means I normally think on the weekends as to what I wanna post come Monday am (my time). This weekend I had a really nice one planned but that all…

Destination "Nowhere" My wife and I recently fulfilled a really long term dream of moving to the east of the Netherlands far away from the busy life of the west. This means that instead of being a 15min drive from the Rotterdam office, I am now a staggering 1h15m. Wooooh! 🚗🤯 It won't be a hassle, what with all the…

Statuspage is showing all green 💚 https://trello.status.atlassian.com/ But i am still getting sandtimer "Sending.... ⚠" messages with every single action I do and then eventually the "⚠ Could not connect to trello" message Double checked my internet connection and internet provider's status page and no issues... And now I…

ONCE UPON A TIME... Long before the global pandemic our teams of highly skilled AR Field Engineers spent their days in the Rotterdam office of PTC. For one team in particular they spent their days working on a highly complex Augmented Reality solution, using a mix of Jira, Confluence, and Trello to get their work done on a…

Back in the day, when over 25% of my work was Atlassian Admin, I used to be freely able to make anyone a primary for contact on https://my.atlassian.com/product. Last time I did this was winter of 2019. Since then none of our settings have changed and everything should be the same, we just don't use this ecosystem (ops…

I scream, you scream, we all scream for... D0NUtZ!! I mean... what else, am I right?? They are absolutely bloody awesome! A flavour for everyone & a format for everyone - gluten free, sugar free - there is just literally a donut out there for every single human being throughout the whole world! 🍩💙 This year for Lent I gave…

WE ARE ALL NERDS ! ! 🤓👏 Let's be honest... shall we? Deep down, we ARE nothing but a bunch of nerds. Whether we're geeking out about the upcoming launch of Mariokart LIVE or the latest episode of The Boys, every single one of us has a passion they we care deeply about. And many times those passions are causing us to…

ADVENT IS FLYING....! So, it feels like only yesterday that our kids opened the first box on their cute little chocolate Advent calendars 🍫📅 A few blinks later and it is already the 7th!! OMGoodness.... how time flies! Therefore, with Christmas approaching too fast and December disappearing even quicker, it is key to make…

"Ghost" Cover I have this one card that is showing none of the custom fields/checklist/comments/etc. items and shows the card title ghosted over the cover... when I remove the cover everything is fine. This does not happen on any other card at all, new or old and I am not aware of this bug nor new functionality (be it…

Welcome Community buddies to another epic Miscellaneous Monday! This week I wanted to focus on Meme's. Like them or not, the last decade, the internet has opened a major can of worms when it comes to this subject and being the Fun Man I naturally embrace them as MUCH as possible. They are part & parcel of my daily life -…

Virtual ACE Rotterdam On September 17th, the Atlassian Community Event [ACE] chapter in Rotterdam got together virtually for another great knowledge share session! We've been still been going on strong despite the circumstances and inability to hold in person events, but that's OK! Thanks to all the various Virtual…

ZERO OF ZERO IS 100% - PERFECT SCORE 🎯🏆 Happy Monday everybody, and welcome to another round of Meg's Miscellaneous Monday! Today it is my turn and this weekend I was thinking about my recent achievement with my.... "resolutions". So, it's now February 3rd and over a month since NYE celebrations. 2020 is well under way...…

The Sneaky B^st^rds! 😳😲 In recent years Atlassian seems to be throwing out random but significant changes at us willy nilly: there’ll be a random experiment, then some form of Beta testing and before we know it the Issue View in Jira has changed forever, the Editor in Confluence is not what we were used to (nor wanted –…

Community ! Why oh why can I not submit my previous periods. What on earth am I doing wrong? Why can I only submit the current plus two previous? [ps: Cloud version!]

Easter is cancelled! This week was supposed to be my turn for [Meg's] Miscellaneous Monday on Community and I well and truly f'd it up... After spending most of the week last week planning for an awesome Easter related one 💐🐰🥚🐣 I ended up having SUCH an amazingly chilled out 3 day weekend that I completely forgot to log on…

LIFE ONLINE 🕸💻 Greetings fellow Atlassian Nerds! FMA here! A.k.a. Fun Man Andy. When I’m not busy; * pulling my hair out at work as a Project Manager in the highly demanding realm of Augmented Reality, * or shouting at my co-workers as the Atlassian Admin, * or being climbed on by my kids at the weekend, * or busy trying…

My name is Fun Man Andy and I have an addiction… It’s August 25th 1999. Having just turned 16 that month, young Andrew James got the shock of his life! After 8 tough years of being shit at school and studying, he did the unthinkable: passed his GCSE’s within the top 5% of the UK. Say WHAT!? Unthinkable! As a special reward…

MAKING WAVES: MOVING WORK FORWARD For decades the surf industry has had only one popular type of method for getting grip and traction onto a board. Whilst performance is not optimal, application also steals time from a surf session and the material is nastily greasy, leaving boards, cars, and personal possessions dirty;…

ULTIMATE PROCRASTINATOR ⏱🛑 For as long as I can remember I have been a massive dreamer. That’s awesome, right? Downside is, I am a dreamer who makes very few of those dreams come true. A lot of it comes down to being a “Campaigner”. One of my key characteristics as a campaigner is loooooooads of ideas (too many) and little…