DevEx Roundup: 3 ways to get the most out of Compass

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Compass Communique: June 2023

Hello Compass Community,

This month we’re helping you get the most out of Compass with a hands-on workshop. Plus, check out templates to speed software delivery and join Atlassian’s DevDay and learn how to build apps for Compass, your developer experience platform.

What’s new this month:

• 🛠️ Three tasks to get the most out of Compass

• 🐎 Gitty-up! Watch how to populate your catalog with GitHub

• 🚀 Faster software delivery and less toil with Compass templates

• ⭐️ Star your favorite components for faster access

• 📚 Learn to extend Compass at our free DevDay workshop

• 📺 PlatformCon recap

• 🎁 Get a LEGO, become a Compass Champion

🛠️ Three ways to get the most out of Compass

Reduce cognitive load with these three activities - join Andrew from the Atlassian team on June 21 (AMER) / June 22 (APAC) and he’ll help you set up and optimize your developer experience platform. During this special edition of office hours, you’ll walk away with:

1. 🔢 A populated software catalog

2. 🙋‍♀️ Component ownership assigned

3. 🔄 Ability to map dependencies

The event is over, but check out this video to get started and stay tuned for future office hours sessions!

🐎 Gitty-up! Watch how to populate your catalog with GitHub

Connecting your SCM is the fastest way to populate your catalog and reduce cognitive load for your dev teams. Join Andrew as he shows how to populate your catalog with GitHub in his second video helping you go from Compass sign-up to a fully-featured developer experience platform.

🚀 Faster software delivery and less toil with Compass templates

Accelerate delivery and decrease toil with templates in Compass. Create templates that integrate best practices and adhere to your organization’s standards, include preset information, boilerplate code, and webhooks, then use them to quickly build software components and automate repetitive tasks. Get started with templates, and discover how Compass shows you the way to a better developer experience.

⭐️ Star your favorite components for faster access

Find your most important components faster by starring them 🤩 and they’ll appear in your Component Search list. As a reminder, you can also add a component to your watchlist to receive important notifications. Log in today and stay current with your favorite components.

📚 Learn to extend Compass at our free DevDay workshop

Compass is built with open APIs and can be extended to work with your organization’s entire toolchain. Want to get started with your own apps and customizations? Join Patrick Brady from the Compass Engineering Team at our DevDay free virtual workshop on June 27. Learn how to use the Atlassian Forge serverless developer platform and start building your own apps. Register for the free event.

📺 PlatformCon recap

Can you believe PlatformCon was just a week ago? Please take a look at the Compass at PlatformCon 2023 highlights, including our three sessions played during the conference and our in-person watch parties. Topics include developer joy, complexity limits of software teams, and best practices for a developer platform.

🎁 Get a LEGO, become a Compass Champion

Compass is better with friends. Sharing your free component catalog across your organization reduces cognitive load and knowledge silos, and helps your devs collaborate effectively with greater autonomy. Simply bring 10 or more of your colleagues into your Compass instance to become a champion and earn your prize. Here's how:

1. 💻 Log in to your Compass instance or learn more

2. 🙋‍♀️ Invite at least 10 of your colleagues and get them to explore the Compass home page

3. 🎁 Be on the lookout for your LEGO set!

Want to share your thoughts or ideas? Let us know with a comment below, or sign-up to chat with a Compass PM! Haven’t tried Compass yet? Sign-up today!

[Jon Bevan [Adaptavist]]

Hey so I really want the Lego but I'm having a hard time convincing colleagues to use Compass because we can't get the activity timeline working consistently with Bitbucket Cloud. I spoke to the support team and they said we can remove and re-add repository links for components which works for a day or so and then nothing appears on the timeline again which sucks. Please help!