Calling for Topics!

[Karen_Mustain]

Hi All,

We are planning the remaining meetings (October, November and December) for 2020.

Dates will be announced soon.

For the October Meeting, we wanted to do a Lightning Talk round.  Please comment with a topic or question you want to discuss.  We will spend 5 to 10 minutes discussing each topic.  This requires group participation, so be prepared to be on camera (even if you are still in your PJs).

For the November meetings, we still need a topic. A couple topics that were mentioned in the past were:

• Jira Workflows
• Deploying and Adopting Jira Outside of Software IT Teams

Does anyone have a use case that would like to share on either of these topics?

For the December meeting, we were thinking of a virtual happy hour. 

Please comment below with your topics for the October meeting, use case for November meeting and/or vote for a virtual happy hour in December.

Thanks Karen

[Italo Bett]

Hi Karen! I know Atlassian offers different certification paths -- has anyone in the community taken an exam before? Curious about ACP-600 in particular. If you have any info to share as Lightning Talk it would be a good topic! Thanks. 

[Matthew Stublefield]

I could likely join the October meeting. Driving from Springfield to KC for a lunch meeting has always been impossible for me, but Zoom I can do :-)

I helped create many of the Atlassian certification exams (Jira Admin, Confluence Admin, Jira Service Desk, Jira Software, Sysadmin, a couple of the badges...), and I have taken the ACP-600 exam too. Happy to talk about them real briefly and answer any questions people have.

As the Head of Education for Adaptavist, we have also launched a Jira plugin that provides access to all of our training materials (eLearning), which can help people prepare for the cert exams.

Let me know what you think, Karen!

[Karen_Mustain]

@Matthew Stublefield  That would be great!  I would love for you to join and share information about the Atlassian Certifications. 

[Brian Spence]

I would be very much interested in understanding how other groups are utilizing JIRA, or the information in JIRA, for Enterprise level resource / capacity management.  Story points are great for individual agile teams, but don't roll up across teams nicely, and aren't great for communicating with executive decision makers - they want to hear FTEs / butts in seats capacity.

Additionally, reporting tools that can generate charts to be put on dashboards.  Right now I use, and like, Arsenale's Dataplane, however, they do not have a cloud version and we're heading in that direction.  I need to start evaluating alternatives.  If someone is using Power BI I would especially be interested in hearing more about how easy it is (for users, not admins) to build custom reports.

I am also interested in hearing about the certifications referenced in a separate comment.

[Daniel Davkovski]

Hi Karen, 

First, thanks for inviting me to this group! 

You can count on me for the November round. I can talk about both of the provided topics. 

The company that I work with is in the lead gen industry, and majority of the departments and people are non-software development (not to mention that 90% of them met Jira for a first time). 

Long story short: it's been few months since we implemented Jira and the benefits that we see are huge. 

Let me know if additional info is needed - happy to provide :D 

[David Puchosic]

For our Lightning Talks, I would like to hear if anyone is integrating the following Microsoft O365 technologies with Server or Cloud products.

• Common Data Services (Power Apps)
• SharePoint Online Search

Thanks!