Rachel Wright Community Champion

Workflows are the most talked about area of Jira. Sometimes workflows don’t represent your real life process. Other times, there are too many manual steps and people hate it! Whatever the situation, users and admins are always interested in learning more and improving workflows. It’s no surprise that “Jira Workflows for…

My two favorite things in life are Atlassian Summit and travel! Atlassian’s flagship event, the annual user conference, is in Las Vegas Nevada this April. This will be my eighth Summit and my fourth trip to Vegas! I took the Mandalay Bay photo above in 2006. By now I know a lot about both and am excited to share my…

This is part 2 of the Atlassian Summit Travel Guide – Vegas Edition. Return to Part 1. PART 2 CONTENTS * Planning and Itinerary* Summit Mobile App * Safety * For US Citizens * For International Travelers * Flight and Airport * Luggage * Atlassian Summit Survival Guide Planning and Itinerary I’ve been on an RV road trip…

For the last few years at Summit, Atlassian's provided buttons at the confernence registration desk. Each year I grab the ones that specifically relate to me and add them to my collection. My favorite ones read "Atlassian Community Champion", "Atlassian Advisory Council", and my first button that simply reads "AUG." After…

The Problem After attending every Atlassian Summit user conference since 2013, I've acquired a lot of buttons, or "Summit flair" as I call them. I've run out of room for them on my conference lanyard however, and honestly, they were getting heavy! So this year, I needed a different solution. How could I display my flair?…

Atlassian’s introduction of “Next-gen” projects in Jira Cloud represents a paradigm shift in the way they build and deliver features. They are moving from a massive monolith of code to microservices structure. In their recent webinar “The new Jira begins now” Atlassian shared that they operated from a single code base for…

Atlassian just announced a new feature for Jira Cloud users: anyone can create a project, issue type or custom field. No need to engage the admin team! When I heard this at the Summit user conference, I cringed at the thought of cleaning up the new messes that end users will inevitably create. I’ve spent many years fixing…

Updated for Summit 2018! In September, Atlassian, the maker of Jira, Confluence and other development tools, hosts another European user conference! Users in the United States will trade their usual domestic flight to California for an international flight to Barcelona, Spain. This will be my seventh Atlassian Summit. As a…

Read: Intro | Day 1-2 | Day 3-4 Day 5 When boondocking it's easy to run out of water. How many times you wash your hands in a day? Simple things like this deplete the supply quickly. Our 46 gallon fresh water tank won't last forever, no matter how much we conserve. We got lucky though; there was an on site water hose we…

Read: Intro | Day 1-2 | Day 3-4 | Day 5-7 In the software development world, each time you complete a project, you review what went well and what you could do better next time. It’s called a “retrospective” or a “post-mortem.” We did a retrospective on our boondocking adventure, using Confluence’s template. These are the…

As previously announced in Boondocking with Jira and Confluence, this week, we’re “off the grid” in our travel trailer. We’re boondocking which means camping without hookups to city power, water, and sewer systems. We’ll provide our own resources which includes enough power and internet to connect to Jira and Confluence –…

Read: Intro | Day 1-2 Day 3 In 2006, my stationary house was hit by lightning. One strike sent electrical outlet face plates flying across the room and broke mirrored walls. The fire department opened walls with their axes, checking for internal fire. All the house’s appliances were fried. No more fridge, no more hot water…

Did you know I’ve worked from the road for over 3 years? It’s a lot like working from home except when I look out the window of my home on wheels, the scenery is always different! In May 2015, we got rid of most of our stuff, sold our cars, and hit the road in a travel trailer. Our trip started in Virginia. From there we…

This article is part of a multi-part series. Also see: * Summit Through the Years - Part 1: 2013 - 2015 * Summit Through the Years - Part 2: 2016 - 2017 * Summit Through the Years - Part 3: 2017 - 2019 Summit 2016 Oct 10-13, 2016 – San Jose, CA Focus: Team Up Attendees: 3,200 from 35 countries. 350 Atlassians attended.…

Each quarter, Atlassian has a 24 hour hackathon, called ShipIt, where they stop all work duties to create something awesome. It embodies their culture of innovation and demonstrates a sacred company value: “Be the change you seek.” This week, 24 non-Atlassians participated in the first Atlassian User Group (AUG) Leader…

In May 2017, Atlassian, the maker of JIRA and Confluence, hosts its first European user conference! Users in the United States will trade their usual domestic flight to California for an international flight to Barcelona, Spain. This will be my fifth Atlassian Summit. As a frequent attendee and a frequent traveler, here…

Can the community.atlassian.com be added to the application list at: http://status.atlassian.com? Thanks for considering and Happy Easter!

Greetings, I know email notification functionality in general is being discussed on other threads, but I wanted to talk about a very specific piece of it: the subject line. Each message's subject line begins with: "[Atlassian Communty] " Example: [Atlassian Community] New answer available in JIRA Can you remove "[Atlassian…

Greetings, I'm not sure you can do anything about this, but I thought I'd mention it just in case. Yesterday I added the article "Atlassian Summit Travel Guide" seen here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Summit-articles/Atlassian-Summit-Travel-Guide/ba-p/458913. I originlly posted this information to my blog and pasted…