X-Ray for Atlassian Admins - February 2025

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G’d day Atlassian Community! 👋

New month - new interesting blog posts, reports, updates, and upcoming events that the GitProtect team prepared for you! So, let’s dive into them! 🥽

📚 News & Resources

Blog Post 📝| How to make cross-functional collaboration simple for program managers
Did you know that program managers in cross-functional teams spend 30% of their time at work just searching for information? Well, Atlassian suggests planning using Confluence, and executing with Jira in order to simplify the cross-functional collaboration. Check out the best Atlassian recommendations.

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Blog Post 📝| How to Optimize Test Management in Jira: Solutions for Common QA Challenges
This article addresses the challenges that testers face and provides insights into effective test management in Jira. These challenges include a lack of testing styles, inefficient test execution, or poor test case organization. Take a look at how testers can benefit from these best practices to manage their demanding workload efficiently.
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Blog Post 📝| Moving from idea to action with Confluence and Jira
The combination of Jira and Confluence can prove beneficial for your organization. If you are interested in: task breakdown, strategic planning, road mapping, product launch coordination, project management, or inter-team dependency management - this integration might be something just for you. 

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Blog Post 📝| Atlassian Accounts protection enhancements
Atlassian aims to increase account security by implementing stronger security protocols. This will include more sophisticated verification of the user’s identity and account ownership. The benefits this brings are reduced risk of unauthorized access and removal of automated credential theft. 

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Blog Post 📝| Rovo for GitHub Copilot leads Atlassian’s new developer-focused innovations at GitHub Universe
A study conducted by Atlassian pointed out that developers lose over 8 hours per week due to inefficiencies in their workflows. That’s where Rovo comes in to support developers in succeeding with AI. One way it could help is reduced context switching, and speeding up software development with Atlassian Rovo for GitHub Copilot. 

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Blog Post 📝| IT Resource Management: Why It Is A Key To Business Success
To achieve success with your project, you should pay close attention to how you manage your IT resources. We know it sounds cliché, but imagine you can seriously avoid exceeding the budget, delays with release dates, and just a general waste of resources. How? 

👉 Find out

Blog Post 📝| The 2024 DevOps Threats Unwrapped
We released it! Our latest research reveals the most severe flaws, prolonged outages, devastating human errors, data breaches, and other incidents that shaped the DevOps cybersecurity landscape last year. In 2024 DevOps had to handle 502 incidents impacting those tools, including 48 with the highest level of risk which resulted in 955 hours of major and critical disruptions. Want to find out more? 

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📅 Upcoming Events 

Webinar 🎙️| Automate, Secure, Govern: Transforming Enterprise Data Management | Feb 20th,11:30am CET | Online
Bridge the gap between efficiency, security, and governance. Topics include user/group data management, data security, and Jira metadata exports for Data Governance success. Boost the security of your data with this webinar for data security professionals and Jira administrators.

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Event 🪐| Jira for all teams - ACE Roadshow 2025 | North America
This series of events in the US aims to show how Jira is easier than ever for all teams to collaborate. That includes Software, Marketing, Design, Operations, and beyond. Seize the opportunity to connect with industry experts, see the product roadmap, and get access to exclusive resources to support your teams even more!

👉 DFW 👉 San Francisco 👉 Vancouver 👉 Kansas City 👉 Toronto 👉 LA

Online Course 🪐| There's no place like home - Setting up successful Confluence home pages | Feb 20, 2025 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm GMT+1
This course will provide you with best practices for Confluence home pages. The covered content will include what they are, and the ways they can be used, among other tips. Learn how to make automatic tables of contents, format home pages, pull in Jira tickets, and more!

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