Kat Warner Atlassian Partner

Bridget Sauer's job (and likely passion) is to inspire #AtlassianAuthors to write and share content on the Atlassian Community. Given that March 8th is International Women's Day, it is little surprise that our monthly topic for article writing inspiration is to share stories about women who have made an impact on ourselves…

Suzie has shared her work stories Implementing Single Sign-On for Exciting Government Agency and Managing users in an Exciting Government Agency with the Atlassian Community recently. Like many of people reading this article, Suzie is a Jira Administrator. As an Atlassian Certified Professional, she is trusted to find and…

It is unlikely many of us here in New Zealand were going to get a paid work trip to Las Vegas to attend Atlassian Summit 2020. I was looking forward to sharing the free virtual Summit experience with you all in a few weeks but in a effort to help contain the spread of novel coronavirus the in-person event has been replaced…

On-boarding or induction often involves a whole lot of information sharing about the role, the company, then physical working environment, and more. One topic recently added at my workplace is about how to use landline phones - something that is just a given to many of use but is not something everyone has had to use that…

One of the hats I wear at work is Scrum Master. In December I levelled up by attending a Scrum.org course, studying, and passing an exam to become a Professional Scrum Master. This article is the second part of a series where I summarise what I learned so I can share the knowledge with my team and with the Atlassian…

On the first of November, Emilee Spencer from the Atlassian team inticed the community to leave 2 helpful reviews on the Atlassian Marketplace with the Marketplace App Review badge. This is part 2. Part 1 is here. Flow Board If you are using Confluence, but don't use tools like Jira, Trello to manage your personal tasks,…

On the first of November, Emilee Spencer from the Atlassian team inticed the community to leave 2 helpful reviews on the Atlassian Marketplace with the Marketplace App Review badge. Almost 30 people, including myself, submitted reviews and requested the badge. But what about the reviews themselves? I thought I'd share…

Do you remember Suzie? We met Suzie in Implementing Single Sign-On for Exciting Government Agency. Suzie works as an Atlassian Product Support Specialist for a highly regulated government department we know as Exciting Government Agency (EGA). As an Atlassian Certified Professional, Suzie is trusted to find and implement…

Meet Suzie! Suzie works as an Atlassian Product Support Specialist for a highly regulated government department. Let's call them Exciting Government Agency, or EGA for short. As an Atlassian Certified Professional, Suzie is trusted to find and implement solutions tailoring the Atlassian experience to suit the business…

Patreon and similar tools have exploded on to the online scene (and other places) where fans can help artists, creatives, and other people so they have the resources and time to make their projects. Contributions can be one-off or monthly, with monthly contributions doubling as a subscription with different rewards based…

Since the demise of HipChat and Stride and the endorsement from Atlassian when they announced their strategic partnership many of us use Slack to team messaging. Until now we have been using free poll apps but it might be time to invest in something with some bells and whistles. * Simple Poll was great but there is a limit…

We run company-wide sprints here using Scumban-ish with 1 week long sprints. Sprint changeover for us is during the Wednesday working day. Who out there does fortnight or 4-weekly sprints? Does anyone have the sprint changeover process automated? What are your cons and pros for shorter or longer sprints?

Scrum, XP, and Kanban are all suitable for agile with small teams but has the number of teams increase organisations often look to scaling frameworks. What framework does your organisation use? Nexus? Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)? Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)? Disciplined Agile (DA)? Or something else?

This is the third part of a series where I summarise what I learnt by attending a Scrum.org course, studying, and passing an exam to become a Professional Scrum Master in December 2019. Scrum Roles with pictures started this series and was followed by Scrum Artifacts with pictures. After this article there will be at least…

These days it is not uncommon to see the term work/life blend used instead of work/life balance. Your work place may encourage you to bring your authentic self and be open to being vulnerable. Why we don’t bring our whole selves to work was published on Atlassian's WorkLife blog earlier this month. It is a long but…

Issues often fit into time categories of: * to do in the next 1-2 sprints * to do soon, sitting at the top of someone's backlog * to do some time, maybe, eventually The last category where I work are a mix of project tasks that have been scoped but not scheduled; miscellaneous tasks we will get to "when we have time"; and…

I saw this comment today on Linked In and wanted to share it with you all. What are your reasons for sitting a professional certification? Some of my motivations in the past have been: * to tick a box because my employer wanted it or I thought it would look good on my resume * to have external validation of the practical…

Atlassian is more than the products we use. Not only do their tools help enhance how our teams' work, Atlassian shares ideas to support teamwork (check out the Team Playbook). One popular invention by Atlassian are ShipIt Days, formally FedEx Day. The name change story is captured in this blog post and go here for the…

Do you have weekly sprints and create sprint names using the year and week number? Remember to create the early 2020 sprints as week 01, week 02 etc. This makes sprint selection a lot easier in February when week 10 and week 11 would otherwise sit higher in the dropdown than week 8 and week 9.

This article was originally published on 18 December 2009 and shared what experts and other noted prognosticators thought would be in place in 2010 when looking from 1999 or 2000. * "Ninety percent of all consumer goods will be home-delivered." -- trend forecaster Faith Popcorn * Biomonitoring devices that look like…

Did you know you can extend your ACP-300 certification using your active third party Scrum or Agile Certification from the following list? * Active Scrum Alliance, * PMI-ACP, Scaled Agile, * ICAgile, * Scrum@Scale, * Scrum.org, and * IBM Agile Advocate and IBM Agile Achiever badges The information above helped me select a…

One of the hats I wear at work is Scrum Master. In December I levelled up by attending a Scrum.org course, studying, and passing an exam to become a Professional Scrum Master. This article is the first part of a series where I summarise what I learnt so I can share the knowledge with my team and with the Atlassian…

---------------------------------------------- As of 11 December 2019, a lot of the numbers in this article became out of date due to the fantastic improvements to the Atlassian Certification program outlined here. An updated version is here. ---------------------------------------------- This is the third and final part…

As the end of the year approaches it is time to do all those housekeeping tasks like update your public holiday calendar in Jira Service Desk and change the year in the copyright notice in your public Confluence pages. Or perhaps you don't have copyright notices on your public Confluence pages because you don't want this…

I wanted to write an article on how TechTime creates monthly customer reports by harnessing the data and features in Confluence and Jira, with the help of macros and Marketplace Apps of course. It was not long into the article writing process before I remembered why this had not been documented before for internal use,…