Andy Gladstone Community Champion

Good Monday to All! For many of us, Monday is the first day of the work (that four letter word!) week - but it certainly isn't our favorite or most productive. The Bangles were right when they sang about Manic Monday... It's just another manic Monday (Woah, woah) I wish it was Sunday (Woah, woah) 'Cause that's my fun day…

Happy Friday Atlassian Community! It’s the first Friday of 2023 and even though this week was a shorter work week for many that had off on Monday to celebrate New Years Day, the anticipation of another week behind us is a feeling that can’t be underestimated. There has been something on my mind for a few months that I…

Happy almost penultimate Friday of 2022 everyone! With only two Fridays left in the year, and both being holiday weekends, today is the last one that really counts! Tis the season of Year in Review emails and reminders. Introspection on what I did this past year other than get older. Inspiration for the year ahead. That…

The NYC ACE chapter hosted it's final in-person event of 2022 on November 30 at the Crompton Ale House in NYC. The theme of the night, besides for great beer and finger food, was Jira and Confluence Administrators Happy Hour. It was a great chance for the local Atlassian Admins to connect and re-connect, discuss…

I have recently seen behavior in my main Trello Board where the cover cards on the top of the lists are being driven down to lower positions in the list. i am not sure if I have some automation set up that is causing this, or what other gremlins may be in my Trello Board doing this. Is there a way to set an absolute…

Throughout the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were massive shortages of essential goods and supplies. It was only two years ago that toilet paper, KN-95 masks, hand sanitizer and bottled water shelves and aisles were empty in local stores and online. Initially this was was due to the uncertainty of how long…

This past week, the Atlassian universe experienced a wave of emotions. The highest highs were felt as Team '22 kicked off in person in Las Vegas and virtually in cities around the globe, namely: * New York City, USA * London, UK * Berlin, Germany * Nairobi, Kenya * Bangalore, India * Sydney, Australia And these were only…

Recently I was reflecting back on Hurricane Sandy which made landfall in New York City almost ten years ago. So many thoughts crossed my mind. * How much the world has changed in the past ten years. * How companies and individuals are more prepared today for remote work today than they were then. * How distributed…

Many of us look forward to a caffeine infused Monday morning wake up call from @Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_ and @Biro Florin from Jexo. It's usually a quick shot of great tasting espresso with headline news from the Atlassian Ecosystem. It feels like: So on this Monday where is the fresh ground goodness? Well, Jexo isn't here…

This week thousands of Atlassian product users, partners and employees will descend on Las Vegas for Team '22. One of the highlights of Team is the Team Awards ceremony, announcing the winners of the 2022 Team of the Year, Best in Class Technical and Best in Class Non-Technical. The finalists were culled from hundreds of…

Back in 2011 Capital One ran an ad campaign that won accolades and awards for it's ingenuity and catch phrase - "What's In Your Wallet?". Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Jennifer Garner and even Kermit and Mrs. Piggy had starring roles in commercials run using the What's In Your Wallet tagline. Frankly, I'm surprised that…

I am hoping that the collective conscious and experience of this group will help me with a long term dilemma that I have been struggling with. And no, I am not referring to the struggle over the correct spelling of dilemma. I have (7) managers that report directly to me, and each manages a disparate team within the…

As the indomitable @Jimmy Seddon has already mentioned in his Welcome Wednesday post, today is Groundhog’s Day in the United States and Canada (or Canada and the US from Jimmy’s POV). One of the lessons we learn from Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors in the 1993 Film Groundhog Day is that there is a statute of…

Advice Whether you are a manager of people, or the managed, you need to seek opportunity for elevating your skills and value to remain relevant and in growth mode. Relevancy for today With the work environment continuing to be more hybrid/home than office based, some of the basic work patterns have been disrupted. One of…

I recently started using Trello and came across an issue with cards that have grown in their size and content. There seems to be no scroll bar on individual cards when I open them, making viewing cards on smaller screens very cumbersome. The browser I am using across all of my devices (PC & Laptop) is Google Chrome -…

I am just starting my Trello journey. I have always been a big fan of physical notebooks, but as I have adopted more and more of the Atlassian software suite for managing my day-to-day workflows, I have started using Trello to track my tasks and initiatives in an Agile manner with a Kanban board. I am interested in finding…

The Winter Solstice is today in the Northern Hemisphere. That represents the shortest daylight day of the year for many of us, and for the community members in the Southern Hemisphere, the longest daylight day of the year. It got me thinking about the size and scope of the Atlassian Community, and where each of us is…

Hello World. I am old to Atlassian products, new to Jira Work Management. I am currently trialing this in my organization as we continue to streamline our software into platforms that interconnect and allow for more synergy (sorry for dropping that word). I'm looking forward to learning from the members of this group as I…

Hey everyone. I am Andy Gladstone, and I have been a Confluence user and admin for over a decade, and a Jira user and (still learning) admin for the past two years. My organization is looking to migrate from our home-grown ITSM solution, and JSM is a leading candidate. We are evaluating, so I joined this group to gain from…

A user in our organization started building a KB in her personal space and then renamed the space and made it available to edit and view for all users. The space appears under personal spaces in the sidebar, but is really now a site space. Can a personal space be converted to a site space so that it is categorized…