Walter Buggenhout Community Champion

Hello fellow group members and agile enthusiasts! It is with great pleasure and an open heart that I would like to wish each and every one of you a wonderful, happy and inspirational 2026! 🍾💙🚀 Here’s to fresh sprints and stories yet untold, To learning fast, and letting courage lead— We welcome change, embrace the new and…

Context With the Cloud Premium plan of Jira, you get Advanced Roadmaps included. The tool helps you plan and track your work across multiple teams and projects. Based on the principles of the iron triangle of planning, it helps you answer the most common question related when it comes to running projects: "Are we still on…

Today is the last working day in August. For people with kids in my home country - 🇧🇪 Belgium - that aligns with the last day of the summer holidays. It has always been a day that calls for mixed emotions: * 🥲 a touch of sadness since the holidays are really coming to an end now; * 🤪 a comparable amount of crazy excitement…

Just before I really go on vacation, I was asking myself the question what I would really want to looking for in a focus group in Community. Apart from the many likeminded people I could connect and discuss with, ask questions to or learn from, it would have to be useful links and resources to the domain. As I usually do…

👋👋 Hi fellow group members and Agile Enthusiasts! As I just became one of the new group leaders, together with @Peter Van de Voorde and @Ammar Ahmed Butt, I would first of all very much like the thank the Community Team for the opportunity to do this. And also send a warm and welcoming invite to all group members (old and…

Hi beloved Communiteam 💙 After a week or 2 on the new Community UI, I am suffering a bit from reduced productivity ... The Forums homepage (the page behind this link) has a huge banner at the top that is always there. This page holds the feed I use as my starting point when answering questions, the area where I contribute…

Hi guys, and in this case specifically the Atlassian team ... Jira Work Management is really evolving and useful features keep being added. But in that also lies a growing risk ... I recently saw attachments and a couple of extra tabs being added to the top navigation, so currently I can see: Summary | Board | List |…

For the very first time in our young company history, we were one of the sponsoring partners of a big Atlassian event. “We” are Axians, Atlassian Solution Partner with headquarters in Belgium and winner of the 2021 Atlassian Partner of the Year - Rising Star award. The event was Unleash, Atlassian’s conference on all the…

This article is part of a series about how we tried to help our teenage son through his secondary school career, using techniques and practices from the workplace. For an overview of all articles, a good place to start is the introduction (introduction to this article series), where I set the scene and at links to all…

This article is part of a series about how we tried to help our teenage son through his secondary school career, using techniques and practices from the workplace. For an overview of all articles, a good place to start is the introduction (introduction to this article series), where I set the scene and at links to all…

Happy Friday, Community peeps - wherever you are around the globe! I am really glad that I get the chance to start this weeks Friday Fun thread. After many years in the Atlassian ecosystem, I have built a strong affinity with the importance of teams - at work, in sports, at home, in charity, ... Great teams are built on…

About a year ago, I started writing an article series about the journey of raising our teenage son. Working together to help him become the best version of himself and trying to be the best home team we can be is challenging. Taking the lessons learned to the workplace and vice versa is an interesting topic with plenty…

It is a couple of days before Christmas, 2019. My then 12-year old son has just moved to secondary school and completed his first series of real exams. We are standing in the school playground, where we just received his results from his class teacher. To be honest: they are more than decent. And yet, as we are on the way…

Hi all, I am really enjoying this kudos system. This, together with the cloudies and has made it so much more fun and pleasure to engage actively every single day since the launch. Being able to give kudos to someone is the thing I appreciate the most as added value to the already existing rewards of just helping people on…

This article is part of a series about how we tried to help our teenage son through his secondary school career, using techniques and practices from the workplace. For an overview of all articles, a good place to start is the introduction (introduction to this article series), where I set the scene and at links to all…

This article is part of a series about how we tried to help our teenage son through his secondary school career, using techniques and practices from the workplace. For an overview of all articles, a good place to start is the introduction (introduction to this article series), where I set the scene and at links to all…

This article is part of a series about how we tried to help our teenage son through his secondary school career, using techniques and practices from the workplace. For an overview of all articles, a good place to start is the introduction (Raising a teenager - introduction ), where I set the scene and at links to all…

Back in the days when animals could speak, there used to be a single Jira - imagine that! But if you're getting started with Jira today, there's several tastes and flavours of the tool: * Jira Software (more info)is built mainly to support software teams plan and track their (mainly agile) development work visually using…

Hi all! I spend quite some time in the Community answering questions. One of the first things I run into many times when diving into questions, is how people want to do things in Jira that are perfectly possible, but unfortunately not in the project type they are working in. That may lead to frustration, sleepless nights,…

I played a couple of challenges over the weekend and got stuck with these two: Weekend Wisdom I posted in several groups / categories over the past two weekends (last week on Saturday, but then thought maybe the challenge wasn't active yet), this week on Sunday. To no result, however. I did notice that 91/100 achievements…

While testing Jira Cloud Learning 4, I am experiencing some minor issues. A first one: watching videos does not seem to trigger. I watched a couple of videos I landed on through this page. Unfortunately, the progress counter does not update. Also, the challenge answer 3 questions tagged jira-cloud has a counter that now…

As today is my very last day at work for 2020, I want to properly close out on what has been a very special year - always nice to end with a statement that may still go down as a candidate for understatement of the year. But let's close it with a happy face (or a couple) ! It's been a great pleasure to participate in this…

After a good month participating in the pilot, I thought it was a good time for a somewhat more consolidated write-up of my feedback. So, in an attempt to touch more or less all aspects of the experience, here it goes ... Overall experience As I posted earlier in some smaller touch base comments, I find the entire pilot…

As per the documentation on advanced roadmaps / configuring team velocity it should be possible to use past velocity and forecasting for a team. There is a screenshot in the documentation showing the feature like this: In my instance, the Team configuration screen looks like this: So no past velocity or forecast available.…

Viewing the kudos panel for the first time, I was somewhat surprised to see other people's achievements there while I was expecting to rather see mine. Although it's nice to see movement and watching other people ticking boxes like crazy is motivating, a filter to just see my own would be nice. Also, would an opt-out be…

Aaaah, just three days to Christmas. Let's be honest - it's that time of year where you can settle down, look back to what has been and make plans for what will be. I feel lucky to say my holiday has just started. Although our cat is already making sure that it will most likely be less relaxing than I am hoping for: I want…