Kimberly Deal _Columbus ACE_ Community Champion

Good Day (and possibly Night!) to you all! At the risk of sounding like an Old Timer with a "Back in My Day" sort of story, I want to start from the beginning a bit. When I was asked if I would like to be a Community Champion, there was just a fledgling site, of this now fantastic, part of the web called Community. It was…

I hope everyone went out and got their free sticker today! Did you know that you can vote for issues in Jira? Did you know that Atlassian has voting set up so that you can upvote enhancments and fixes to be included in upcoming releases? It is not the only measure of weight, but it does help them follow what is important…

While we are still working on getting the events on the "official" site, I wanted to give everyone a heads up for the end of year events. We are still planning on joining the Columbus Tech Life Holiday Celebration for our December meetup, so Nov 13th will be our last evening presentation of the 2018 year. We will still…

I wanted to make sure the Columbus User Group knew about this opportunity from the speaker for our October meet up, Rachel Wright. She is offering her latest course free through the 31st! Jira Scary Stories Welcome to tales of spooky security, freakish custom fields, and the potential horrors of user-created projects and…

Ok, so yes, it's Wednesday, but I meant to post this for Topic Tuesday. Time is Wimbly Wombly Timey Wimey....er Relative anyway right? So, We have had discussions on this in the past and I would really like to get something formal going. We have some various options with this, but I would like to start with Jira and the…

Happy Tuesday Everyone! While I was at Summit this year, I had the opportunity to try some Atlassian University Training classes on the Expo floor. They had two different ones they ran though the event, and they were about 20 minutes or so in length. It was a great way to expand on some of my Jira knowledge and gave me…

Some of you already have met Chuck the Buckeye, and have heard the story of how he became the Columbus AUG mascot, for those who haven't though... In 2015, my first year as an AUG Leader and my first trip to Summit, we had an AUG Lounge on the expo floor. We were asked to bring a symbol of our City, to showcase the…

This is Taco! Taco is the Trello Mascot! Say Hello to Taco! Its Tuesday! and that means its time for another Topic Tuesday. This is nacho typical post, lettuce taco-bout Trello! (please don't throw tomatoes at me! I'm done with the puns, Promise) At our last meeting, we watched the Trello Day Keynote talk, from Barcelona.…

Wall of Donuts spelling out TEAM on the Expo floor of Atlassian Summit 2018 Hey Everyone! It was really awesome to have you all at the event last evening, I want to make sure to post some follow up information here. Links to all of the Keynotes All of the Keynotes for Summit can be found here, the one we saw last night for…

In a discussion thread about onboarding new users to JSD. (Found here: A is for Activate: Share your top Jira Service Desk onboarding tips for new users!) We began to explore the ideas beyond just simple how-to guides and walk through tutorials, and move in to the realm of setup and design, and common framework of…

It was great seeing everyone at Breakfast this morning. I wanted to follow up with a couple of things that were asked around the table. One, was for training resources for getting started with Confluence. Here is a list of free resources: https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/atlassian-confluence-tutorial/ Its free, but does…

Greetings From Barcelona! I am having a fantastic time meeting with other AUG Leader, Community Champions, Atlassians and Atlassian Partners! I absolutely cannot wait to come back and share all of the fantastic information from the Company and partners. What are you most interested in hear about from Summit?

Look at that! Back to Topic Tuesday already! This week, I find myself getting ready and starting to pack for the Atlassian Summit in Barcelona. I certainly can't pack for the biggest Atlassian event of the year without some of my favorite things! Including my awesome Atlassian Socks! I have my AUG Leader/Community Champion…

Hey Guys! Its Topic Tuesday again! Here's this weeks thought provoking question: What ways have the Atlassian Products shifted the way your team works?

It's Topic Tuesday! Here's this weeks discussion prompt. Atlassian is driven by acknowledging employees and customers in their efforts to promote teams. What have you or your organization done recently that has created a positive impact within your team or with the entire company?

Hey Everyone, There's a great event happening this Thursday, August 9th at 1pm Pacific, Dom Price, He's the Work Futurist at Atlassian, and will be hosting a real-time "ask me anything" style forum on the Atlassian Community website. Here's how it works: Before the session, create or log into your account on Atlassian…

This discussion question centers more around Jira, but could apply to other Atlassian tools as well. With my job as a Jira Administrator, I get a lot of customization request. Can we add this field, have this status in our workflow, change up our screens? Some times things are pretty simple, but sometimes the requests are…

Its a summer Holiday for those in the US. What fun activities are you planning for the day? Grilling, Beach Party, spending the day with friends and family are the top of many folks lists, but today finds me at the Roller Skating rink! Great hot summer activity! Tell us about your adventures on your summer days away from…

Happy Friday! (for those on the correct side of the dateline!) Lets do the 12 Days of Christmas Atlassian Style! I'll start with the first day and folks can add in the next 12 On the first day of Christmas my boss gave to me, a Bitbucket Repository On the second day of Christmas my boss gave to me, Two..... I know there…