Teodora V _Warsaw Dynamics_ Community Champion

With this article, I’m opening a page to a new Chapter. I returned to working in the Atlassian Ecosystem, and I’m even happier to have a company Confluence instance (again)! 💙 Being a long-time user of Confluence Server & Data Center, I was excited to find we are using the Cloud version of the product. Hello, new layout,…

I'll never stop exploring two things in my life: cooking and Confluence. The Great Atlassian Bake Off pulled a heartstring and made me roll my sleeves on the lovely snowy Sunday morning. As I recently shared, I can't imagine a world not being carefully organized in Spaces and Page trees. And I dream of owning a Bakery…

The first rule of All-Knowledge-Bases-in-the-World: You can't make the user read. We've all been there, and when it comes to documentation improvements and upgrades, the struggle is real. I will again start with my favorite song of Depeche Mode: "Let me take you on a trip...". Still, not around the world and back, but we…

I am Teodora, and I'm a Confluence addict. 💙 Creating, managing, and running Confluence spaces transformed the way I work and collaborate. In the past six years, I have used Confluence to manage my day-to-day responsibilities at work, keep track of my activities and even manage my own schedule. I'm here to learn and share…

*shoutout to Christopher Berry, who helped me put my distracted thoughts in place. Bear with me, and you'll find more about that. If you have regular touchpoints with your coworkers from the Marketing team, you probably already know they are in a constant organizational struggle for finding the right fit. Like, yeah... In…

We all know at least five motivational quotes like "leadership is to produce more leaders," "leader is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things," and so forth. And I stand behind (most of) them, of course. But. There is always a "but," right? ;) Leaders are an essential part of the cycle called "teamwork";…

As Hana shared recently - it's not an easy job being an introvert at work. But that's not the only thing disrupting your work-life balance or your daily routine. It's even more complex if your core values are not aligned with the values of your company and team. I'm used to always focus on the individuals, their strong and…

My Confluence addiction is very well known around the Community forces. This article will focus on another Confluence use case, crafted especially for my daily planning needs. Before leaving my company Confluence space, I already had a Cloud instance to keep all my articles and activities, as well as use it to compare DC…

I’ve already shared my love of Gliffy in a previous article, but I can still say - definitely a favorite! With the bazillion use cases and straightforward app usage, each of our teams is benefiting from this diagramming treasure - from IT to Dev, to Marketing, to HR. Today, for the sake of the Atlympics, I’m sharing…

When we are learning a new product or service, we usually spent ages in getting-started guides, wikis, documentation, and various set of resources. Starting with a good knowledge base is essential for our learning curve, productivity, and efficiency in the learning process. But what about onboarding a new team member… to…

For the past 5+ years, I have worked in a high-performing marketing team focused on always bringing quality content to the company’s partners and users. As many of you know, being a marketer in a software company is not an easy job. It takes time and a sufficient amount of calories (mostly from sugars) to sustain a good…

With more than 1000 Confluence pages behind my back, I admit there is no use case I cannot cover. Being part of the Atlassian world for almost 6 years, Confluence is standing by my side since day 1. At Botron, an Atlassian marketplace vendor, we used Confluence to order our marketing chaos, create, share and review…

Sending love to the Trello queen - @Jodi LeBlanc ♡ The Awesome Author Badge is Live, so as my passion for growing a little piece of green heaven at home. Two shots in one topic! Recently I bought a few more plants for our dining room. After the first couple of days filled with joy about how gorgeous my new plants are, I…

Hey, Community Friends! It's been a while. I'm sad this is my first article for the month, and the reason behind my loss of productivity is straight to May's topic. Back-to-back meetings, ad-hoc meetings, regular meetings, you name it, I have it. Do you know the maximum productive time per day is not more than 3 hours?…

2020 has been a challenging year for all of us. Shifting the way we live, the way we think, and the way we construct our perspective. Besides the global changes and transitions to a distributed lifestyle, our small gourmet team faced another challenge: we've been acquired. In the beginning, there was ... silence.…

If you haven't read the story's begging, check out the previous article: From Team of 30 to Team of 140+. Now What? In the last paragraph, I mentioned how important it is to have a proper workflow for managing distributed teams and recently adopted companies. The constant struggle in every marketing team in the world is to…

I just watched my second Atlassian Team 21 session for the day and, Chirag Harendra, thank you! In this world gone wild, we are becoming more and more obsessed with the idea of always being available, responding with zero downtime, and have a level 9000 multitasking. We are working remotely for more than a year, and we…

The amazing photo is courtesy of Mareks Steins from Pexels. This started as a LinkedIn article, but I felt a good feeling about posting it here, where I see all these extraordinary people day by day. If we want to be compliant with the sound of a romantic story, the beginning of this article should sound like: “We all know…

Hello there! My first Friday Fun topic - yay! Spending a few years close to the software industry and Atlassian's ecosystem, opened my eyes to many things. One interesting observation is that behind every Jira administrator stands a mighty hobby! Well, okay, not just Jira administrators This year the Las Vegas Summit met…

Goal setting in a large distributed team is like setting up a new Health App - you need to choose reasonable metrics, focus on consistency and always be ready for compromises. Me. As I shared recently, I'm not a new-year-resolutions person. If we strive to play as a team, the picture is slightly different. For the sake of…

One of my favorite movies is called "The World is Big, and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner," - a Bulgarian film co-produced with Slovenia, Germany, and Hungary. A beautiful map of meaning, representing the simple but essential truths of life. You may be wondering why I start a Confluence article with such reference? I'm…

As every time Confluence: you ask - I write. 💙 February '21 Authors' theme rolled the wheels of our imagination and inspired us to create bold concepts over some absolutely hypothetical probabilities! If I could give Confluence to any person in history, it will be tricky to find answers different from "everybody." To me,…

Each conversation ever: - Teodora, is there information about... - YES. With more than 900 Confluence pages behind my back, believe me, I know stuff. And I write stuff. I'm standing right behind the idea of providing a detailed, well-explained information flow to my coworkers, and help them achieve more and search less.…

Hey, Community friends! 2020 was full of surprises, and still, we moved through it like a wind. Our companies and teams developed new strategies for work, collaboration, engagement, and even building an entirely different team culture from scratch. All who are now focused on their New Year Resolution lists - guys, it…