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Happy Wednesday Everyone! In North America, the week between Christmas and New Year's is usually the time that most people take vacation. In years gone by, my wife and I would usually elect to work through this week as it was a great time fir heads down work on those tasks that always got stuck on the back burner, then we…

This guide will walk you through the process of enabling and disabling two factor authentication for managed users within your Atlassian Cloud organization. If you are looking for the ability to enable two factor authentication for unmanaged accounts, at the time of writing this article, Atlassian has not yet implemented…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I'm sure everyone is talking about New Year's resolutions right now. I'm going to take a different spin on the question and ask you what you are planning to explore or learn this year. It could be New features within an Atlassian product you are currently using, a new product that has been…

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Happy Wednesday Everyone! Christmas is only a couple of weeks away, and I thought it might be fun to pull out our wish list. For any Atlassian PMs that may be watching this, be sure to start taking notes. So, if you couldn’t tell by the title, my question for you this week is: If Atlassian could make one change in their…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Today is the official start of my Christmas holidays! I'm also celebrating my daughter’s second birthday! My wife and I are making a conscious effort to make sure that she will always have a birthday party that is celebrated separately from Christmas celebrations. My question this week is mainly…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-BOyFWJm4 Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Next Monday (December 11th), Atlassian will be holding their next event both Digitally and In Person in Amsterdam! This event is focused on Agile & DevOps and it’s sure to have it’s own set of announcements, including the winner of the AI focused Codegeist hackathon event. I unfortunately, won’t…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! We are two days away from the beginning of December. For all my friends in the Southern Hemisphere, I know you are about to enter summer but I think you are still able to comment on this, it will just be able half a year early. The “Start of Winter“ is different for everyone. Scientifically…

If you are interested in reading part 1, be sure to check it out here. The Announcement Two weeks ago, it finally happened. A return to office date was announced. Officially I will be required to be in the office Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday starting January 2nd 2024. As I mentioned previously, I’m one of main concerns…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! This past weekend, my wife and I took the kids on a Christmas train ride. My youngest is fascinated by trains right now so we thought it for be a fun weekend activity. We got to see many fun sights and Santa was even on the train wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. This got me thinking, how many…

I was recently informed that my company is considering/talking about employees returning to the office. When I first heard this, I panicked a little (ok, a lot!). Have I done something wrong? Am I not doing my job to their satisfaction? These are a couple of the things that immediately flew through my mind. In the past, I…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I have discovered there seems to be two camps on this subject. Those who start putting up Christmas decorations the moment Halloween is over, and those that wait until Christmas Eve (yes I've exaggerated a little). This has been a hot topic at work with some really strong memes. Personally, I like…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! In the August Community Roundup, I mentioned that you should go join the App Central collection in the Online Community. October is the main reason for this! Apptoberfest is live and there are prizes for being involved during each week. Go check out the details…

Happy Friday Everyone! Sorry to post and run, but right now I’m on my way to Toronto (don’t worry I have an hour ride on the train I can be watching for comments). What am I dong you ask? Well if you couldn’t guess from the title I’m headed to a conference(ish). I’m on my way to Fan Expo. This is a convention about…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Recently, I shared my thoughts about the idea of returning to the office. As you can see, I have my reservations, but as with everything, I will reserve judgement until all the cards are on the table. I’m know that a number of you are probably already back to the office and a number of you are…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I love Halloween! Even now that I’m older, I still enjoy dressing up, handing out candy and taking the kids around the neighborhood. But, I also love the day "AFTER" Halloween as all the leftover candy at the store gets discounted. My absolute favorites are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and that is…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! This past weekend, here in Canada we celebrated Thanksgiving! This allowed us to get together with family and my mom always wants us to go around the room to say what we are thankful for. In past years, this has always felt a little cheesy, but this year there is a fair bit I’m grateful for.…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Have you tried running any of the plays in the Atlassian Team Playbook? Are you aware that this is a free resource Atlassian offers to help make your teams more effective? If this is the first time you are hearing about the Playbook I would highly encourage you to check out the “Building strong…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x2EDtej3es Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! It's been a while since we had a thread devoted to sharing your pets! So let's bring it back again today! I'm looking for dogs, cats, fish, reptiles, tigers and anything else that you have as a pet. Share a picture in the comments below, bonus points if you share names and ages! Here's my pair -…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! About two weeks ago, Atlassian announced the GA launch of Compass! Have you started using it yet? This week, I’d love to know what feature(s) you love the most, and if you haven’t started using it yet, I’d love to know what your hesitation is? For me, we have not “officially“ started using…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I have been studying and preparing to write the ACP-520 certification exam. In fact, I will be writing it a few hours from now. As with a number of the other certification exams I have taken, I have put in a number of evening and weekend hours of preparation. I know that a number of people are…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj0lgVAia8o Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for…

The latest thread accepting new signups is here! Get in on the Friday Fun action and earn the Friday Funmaker badge by signing up below! (Don't forget to earn Fri-Yay! by participating, too.) * You will get a reminder when it's your turn * Feel free to be as random, specific, serious or silly as you want * You can…

Hello Everyone! Before engaging with Atlassian Support, I thought I would ask you fine folks in case someone might have encountered this. We have a Jira Software project that contains the epic issue type. As a part of the workflow for Epics we have a custom field (Single Value Select List) that we have configured as…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhykEYT2T7M Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! We don't always know what everyone is going through on a day to day basis. I always do my best to assume the best intentions from everyone. That being the case, I'm sure someone, somewhere is going through something difficult and just needs someone to tell them everything is going to be ok. So, if…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! For all you parents out there, it’s almost time for the little ones (or not so little ones) to go back to school. For my son, he will be entering grade 1. He will have a new teacher and new classmates to introduce himself to. It’s been a while since we simply introduced ourselves and there have…