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Happy Friday once again! @Jimmy Seddon is back once again filling in for your weekly dose of Friday Fun (and it's still Friday where I am for another 1.5 hours, so we're still good)! One of the things I have grown quite fond of since there isn't much else to do during lock down is experimenting with "adult" beverages.…

Happy Friday Everyone! I’ve like to thank @meghna_singh for the inspiration for this week’s Friday Fun post. I’m sure there is some commonly accepted Foods or Beverages that everyone enjoys. However, I’m sure like me there is at least one thing that you just can’t stand, and everyone loses their marbles about it. For me…

Greetings Fellow Community Members! Yesterday was Canada Day, and Saturday is Independence Day. Given that we are right in the middle of what is normally full of fireworks I thought I'd ask all of you what your opinions are of them. This year was the first that I didn't get involved in any fireworks, but I usually spend a…

Greetings once again everyone! I know that not everyone celebrates Christmas and not everyone will have the benefit of being about to take time off. So this weeks question has two sides to the coin. If you are going to be on vacation, what are you looking forward to doing? I know travelling and in many parts of the world…

Hello Everyone! I'm fully into the holiday spirit at this point! One of may favourite parts of this time of year are the treats that only come out around now. Two of my absolute favourites are: Gingerbread Cookies! Candy Cane Ice Cream! I would love to hear about some of your favourites as well! Please share in the…

Hello Everyone! I have a manual Jira Automation Trigger that when executed will create a new issue. I'm trying to figure out what smart value will allow me to dynamically add the person who executes the rule as a watcher on the new issue. The person who executes the trigger will not necessarily be the person who created…

Hello Friends! It’s Monday which means that it’s time for another reflection on everything that has happened in the last seven days. This past week has been one of the most emotionally exhausting weeks I’ve been though. Let’s dive into the details: What went well: * This was the first week in a while where I have actually…

Greetings Fellow Community Adventures! I know I missed week fourteen. I have put a lot of thought into it and made the decision to end this series of articles. I’m not finding the same week over week value I did in the first few weeks, and I imagine that if I’m not finding them as valuable it’s likely others aren’t finding…

Hello again Friends! Well, we’ve made it to day eighty-four… week twelve… three months… one business quarter… This week was a significant improvement over last week. I’ve also been able to sleep better so I’m feeling much less zombie-like than I have been in previous weeks. Let’s dive into the specifics: What went well: *…

Greetings Everyone! This was by far the hardest/darkest week that I have suffered through during the entire remote work/quarantine era. This was the first week where the pressures as work and demands on my time and energy broke me down into a puddle of tears on the bathroom floor. But it wasn’t all bad, there were a couple…

As I mentioned last week, I was concerned about things starting to re-open. While there haven’t been any knee-jerk reactions, the data that has been presented is not good. The local government want to keep the number of newly reported cases under a certain threshold. Over the past seven days we have been well above that…

Welcome to Blursday my friends! I knew this point was going to happen eventually. If I did a retrospective the way I have the past five weeks, this week would be very boring and uninteresting. For the most part everything is going exceptionally well, or at least as well as can be expected given the circumstances. This week…

It feels like I just posted one of these, which means that either I’m keeping busy and getting used to the way things are or I’m slowly going insane (maybe a little of both). This past week was a really busy one for me. We had a software release a work (which could have gone better than it did). On the home front, the…

Happy Monday Everyone! For those that aren’t aware today is a statutory holiday in Canada. The official name is “Victoria Day”, however if you ask a number of people (especially those of the younger generations) they will tell you that it’s “May 2-4”. How did it get this nickname? It’s generally the first long weekend in…

Hello once again! It’s now been two months now since I started these posts. I’ll be honest that when I started these posts, I had no idea I still be doing them this long. This week was better than the last, but it still had some challenges. What went well: * My Son was in a better mood this week, while he still had times…

With the end of last week, I have now surpassed the longest I have ever been forced to work at home previously. The last time that happened was about three years ago when I slipped a disc in my back. It was an extremely rough time has I was forced to work from my bed. On a more positive note, I really think I’m starting to…

Last week was a much more predictable (I refuse to use the word “normal”) work week. The week concluded with a bit of a break for Easter weekend (I’ll talk more about that at the end). Last week’s post is here for anyone that needs context of what I’m talking about. Here’s the weekly rundown: What went well: * I didn’t…

It’s hard to believe this is the third in this series already! This week unfortunately was not all lollipops and rainbows, but instead was a little bit of nightmare fuel. I knew this week was going to be challenging before it even started and if I had to do it all again, I wouldn’t change a thing (well maybe I’d try and…

I saw both the Day 1 keynote and the What's new in JSD, Opsgenie and Statuspage, and this was one thing that really stuck out to me as a gamer changer for our company. Right now when a crtical production issue comes up, we manage to get everyone together and we get it resolved, but notifying the right people and getting…

This is the second post in a series of articles I will be posting while mandatory work from home is in effect. My previous article is posted here. My objective in doing this is not only to review what went well/didn’t for myself and decide on making changes to make things better for my own situation, but I’m hoping that…

When I first posted an article about the upcoming start to working from home, I mentioned that I would post a follow-up article at the end of this. At the time, I didn’t realize how much would change just within one week, and instead I’ve decided to do a week one retrospective since there is enough to reflect on and I’ve…

I have needed to work from home the odd day here and there for whatever reason, and I have always really enjoyed it. Being on the introverted side of the spectrum, I really enjoy the solitude during the workday and the increased ability to focus on the tasks I have set out to accomplish each day. I have always wondered if…

Hi Everyone! The person responsible for managing and maintaining our Bamboo server at a system level is not a member of the same team that is responsible for our production environments. It looks as though they will always have the ability to deploy to those environments regardless of how permissions have been set. Does…

We are just a little over a month away from the 2020 Atlassian Summit in Las Vegas. I’m super excited as this will be my second opportunity to attend this amazing event! At about this time last year, I was preparing my schedule for my first Summit attendance and I didn’t know what to expect or how to properly prepare for…

Where were things going wrong? For a long time now, our company has used a shared Excel workbook in Office 365 as a method to track our release deployment and testing process. During the retrospective after most releases at least one person always comments on how the information contained is inaccurate at times, confusing,…