Hi all,
I'm wondering if we have anyone else out there working in Higher Ed who is using Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence?
Would love to hear a bit about your experience!
A good swathe of Adaptavist's clients have been Universities using Confluence, sometimes with aother Atlassian tools we've got involved with too. Server and DC so far, but a couple of the smaller ones are looking to Cloud.
Hi Sharon
Great question. I'm an application administrator at Babson College and I'm the admin responsible for our Atlassian usage. We've been using Jira and Confluence for longer than the 8 years that I've been at Babson, and recently (last March) migrated our data (on our own) from server to cloud instance.
The Atlassian applications that we use are (in order of importance):
Our recent conversion to the cloud was complicated, but we took our time and in the process were able to streamline our permissions, workflows, and user access. We use Duo authenitcation as we do on many college platforms to help with secure single sign on to the platform. One of the major differences between using server and cloud was the licenses. With server we were able to offer a license to all faculty, staff, or students that wanted to participate. Now with cloud the payment model is different so we pay per seat, as a result we've restricted access to departments that actively use the products. We were a bit surprised that there were nominal pushback when this seemingly major change was implemented.
We are currently using Jira Cloud for our IT team as a queue for Salesforce and Workday project based work, integration work, development work, applications project work, and more. While we use Remedy Force within Salesforce to track Helpdesk issues, we use Jira when a support issue requires more extensive planning to solution. Our Advancement team uses Jira for managing stewardship initiatives and marketing campaigns. The Alumni team uses it to track and manage event planning, and our College Marketing team manages their PR projects, Ugrad Admissions marketing, Grad Admissions marketing, and College website work with Jira.
As for Confluence we use it as an idea space, and as knowledge wiki for select IT areas, but are only really starting to scratch the surface of usage.
Hope that helps, and I'd be happy to speak more directly toward our usage. I'm also interested in any other use cases that could help us expand our use of Atlassian products, and maximize our current investment.
Thanks for any information you're willing to share.
Such a great answer! Thanks for all the info provided :)
Yes, we brought in the Atlassian Suite for Software Development since 2016. Server at first, with the following products, with 250 licenses.
We have since grown to Data Center with 1000 licenses, and Confluence has become the default for all Dev / Ops documentation, including our BC/DR docs.
My team has automated all of our build and deploy projects with Bamboo, which has made pushing out an update as simple as pushing a button. That being said, we have a robust QA dept. with a QA Director that is second to none. Nothing goes to Production without going through QA.
For COVID-19, we purchased Data Center licensing for Jira Service Desk with 250 Agents, Crowd Unlimited, plus the ProForma, ScriptRunner, and Automation for Jira add-ons. We built our entire COVID-19 Workflow, from Student checklists, scheduling COVID-19 tests, uploading results, and our entire Isolation and Quarantine workflow.
We could not have done it in the limited time that we had without our prior knowledge of Jira, and then using Jira Service Desk to process the entire University. I'm hoping our Architect of the system, @jdanlewis, will give a presentation at EduCause or somewhere else once things settle down.
Hi All,
For those in higher education, I wanted to highlight that this post https://connect.educause.edu/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=cd5377dc-fe4c-4ff5-a3f0-4386d7f64927&CommunityKey=7f7098b1-e7f5-463f-b0cb-b98ba43f9a60&bm=cd5377dc-fe4c-4ff5-a3f0-4386d7f64927 in the EDUCAUSE community has led to an Atlassian EDU community group.
Goals for the group include covering both strategic and operational topics relevant to higher ed. People who would find the most value in this community would be service leads or service owners of Atlassian products at their institutions.
If you are in higher education, feel free to reach out with questions on how to join this new community group.
Thanks!
-Dave
David Long (he/him/his)
Associate Director, Enterprise Instructional Technology
Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology
2800 UCC, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
319-335-5552
https://teach.its.uiowa.edu
Hi all,
There are multiple areas at UVA using Atlassian products. I specifically have been administering Jira, JSM, and Confluence server instances for the Library. We're beginning the process of migrating to the Cloud versions.
We use Jira to manage software development as well as some digitization work. We use JSM for both internal and public facing help - support varying from building issues to course reserve requests to research software support. Confluence is where we document projects, workflows, procedures, meetings, etc.
Glad to have found the Education group here in the Atlassian Community.
Best,
Jack