New to Jira? Introduce yourself here!

[Sam Tsubota]

Hi Everyone! Excited to join the group. Here are my answers to the questions

• When did you first time find out about Jira? At my last company when I started using Jira Align which was integrated with Jira. 
• Where are you in the process of adopting Jira? Only considering it or already implemented and looking for some extension? Not adopting but working with customers that have Jira
• Which topics about Jira are you interested the most and what would you help you? Learning tips on using Jira and short cuts
• Do you have any funny stories connected to Jira? No funny stories...yet

[Jason Dai]

Hello everyone, I am new to Jira group. However I have been using Jira and Confluence starting from 2012.

[John Funk]

Welcome, Jason!!

[Srinatha T]

Hello Everyone.!

This is Srinath and I am part of Confluence support team. I joined Atlassian in Dec 2021. I have some knowledge on Jira from my past experience but there is lot to learn. I am here to learn and contribute to community . Super exited to meet you all. 

Cheerss!

[Karthick S]

Hi everyone,

I am using JIRA since 2018 and love the way it has drastically improved the project management process. Would love to know more about it!

Thank you

[JB]

Best of luck in your continued career growth and use of Jira.

[Simi Fatoki]

Hello Community,

I would like introduce the latest Jira infant on this platform for now.  I am is still healing from a TBI so Jira memory retention is quite vague but slowly building muscle memory......

Looking to learn how to use Jira as an Administrator to manage SCRUM projects

[Darryl Lee]

Welcome to the Community @Simi Fatoki and hope you'll find the useful helps here. :) 

[Fernanda Haughton]

Hi everyone. My name in Nandi, I am from South Africa.

I have heard about JIRA but only used it to log calls to IT. 

Currently I am just playing around with the JIRA Software product as I work in a project management office and we are looking at project management software to implement in our segment.

JIRA is implemented throughout the organization we are a part of and we are looking at what the license we have already can offer us.

We have teams of project resources in 6 different African countries and need to find a way to try consolidate all that and make it easier for the disparate and spread out teams to connect and align. Am interested in reading about how the community members are dealing with issues similar to mine in this group.

So far no funny stories to tell using JIRA but am looking forward to reading some from the community.

[Darryl Lee]

Hello @Fernanda Haughton , welcome to the Community and hope you will find a tons of useful information and fun here. :) 

[Nidhi Raj]

Hi All! I'm new to Atlassian and am a PM in the Confluence group. JSM is new to me, and I love that I can ask any question in the community to seek help!

[Darryl Lee]

Welcome @Nidhi Raj !

[OLA O]

Hi there!

• When did you first time find out about Jira?
  • Early 2021 during Scrum and Agile exam prep.
• Where are you in the process of adopting Jira? Only considering it or already implemented and looking for some extension?
  • Already implementing and looking for some extension.
• Which topics about Jira are you interested the most and what would you help you?
  • Backlog management, Creating filters, bug tracking and other task management.
• Do you have any funny stories connected to Jira?
  • I created a lot of embarrassing user stories when I first started using Jira, the less said the better.

[Darryl Lee]

Welcome @OLA O !!

[OLA O]

Thank you so much.

[K D]

@Hana Kučerová 

Hi Hana and Everyone,

I am very new to the program and this is my 3rd week learning Jira but I heard about the software a few years back.

• When did you first time find out about Jira? 10 yrs ago while temping at the MET and tech dept. advised perhaps the division for Special Exhibition may want to switch but did not have authority as I was just temping.
• Where are you in the process of adopting Jira? Only considering it or already implemented and looking for some extension? I was very curious of how the software worked and ways to apply use.
• Which topics about Jira are you interested the most and what would you help you? Currently just getting familiar with the features/modules and interested to basically know it's functionality.
• Do you have any funny stories connected to Jira? I recently lost my job and DOL informed that courses are available through Coursera and I thought this was a "learn on your own" type of course so I enrolled  (like a test drive ^.^) and started to realize that this was a community driven and "active" with others. 

[JB]

Found out about Jira early 2000's and started using around 2014.

Teams used Jira for many years. I'm now getting back into it after about three years.

I'm wanting to use Jira within Scrum process of an extremely large operations, so ramping up, learning, re-learning.

Interested Jira's use w/n Agile, DevOps CI/CD Pipeline.

[Ed Gaile _Atlanta_ GA_]

Hello everyone!

I have been using Jira for 10+ years. 

I have also broken Jira in just about every way possible.

Happy to be here and help out in anyway I can!

-Ed

[Kevin.Flanagan]

How about creating reports in Confluence?

[Kevin.Flanagan]

Also, do you know if you can block a story from being moved to done if hours are not logged?

[Ian Klek]

Hi folks, been using Jira for years but now as a manager I'll be using in a managerial capacity!

I'm quite fond of story maps, therefore, keen to see what's available for integrating with Jira.

[Darryl Lee]

Hello @Ian Klek , welcome to the Community!

Hope you will find the useful information here to help you succeed!

[Łukasz Modzelewski _Lumo_]

Hi All!

I started using Jira in 2016, as QA in department making Jira apps. I had to learn it and understand how it can be used - at that time it was mostly Server. It's been ups and downs, some frustrations - in some cases community was providing best solutions.

Over time it's awesome to watch the progress and see how Jira is changing. 

Funny story:

First days of 2022, we were testing our app migrations to cloud, we use 1 script to clean Jira - with removal of all projects and issue data etc. By accident this script was used on our production cloud instance! Team come back from the holiday and everything is gone, some think they were removed from projects or we have being attacked by some hacker ... everything was gone. 

While we were taking with Atlassian about the restoration, we came up with 1 conforming sentence: At least support is clean! ^^

We started from the lvl 0, with creating new projects for each app, new support projects etc. some of us even was excited that we can avoid all of the mistakes we made in the past and remove some of the configurations. 

Luckily we get it all back and operational within few days. A reminder:

Cheers,

Łukasz

[Piotr Biegun _Gitprotect_io_]

In the future, you should run backups with Gitprotect.io for Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket and JIRA - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1225728/gitprotect-io-backup-for-bitbucket. :)

[Sri Kumar]

Hi all,

I am Sri Kumar from the Atlassian Migration support team. 

• When did you first time find out about Jira? => In my previous company, they started using Jira Instead of Bugzilla for Dev collaboration.
• Which topics about Jira are you interested in the most and what would you help you? => Getting more understanding of Reports 
• Do you have any funny stories connected to Jira? =>
  In India, there is a spice called Jeera which has the same pronunciation as Jira, So it is always a funny story when trying to explain what tools I help migrate to my friends and relations. 

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_]

Hi @Hana Kučerová ,

this is Fabio! I started to use JIRA and Confluence in the 2007, as user. From 2011, I became an Atlassian Expert and, right now, I help many customer in adoption, configuration and customization of all Atlassian tools, including JIRA. As many other community leaders, I'm happy to support the community in order to share my knowledge!

[Neil Allender]

Found Jira this month. Working mostly with independents and it looks like a good platform for coordinating and organizing everything appropriately.

[Darryl Lee]

Glad you found it and welcome to the Community @Neil Allender !

[Neil Allender]

Thank You @Darryl Lee 👾🌊🧘‍♂️

[Fabio Genovese]

Let me introduce myself. Fabio Genovese aka Artigiano Del Software. I've been working with Atlassian products since 2009 and have never stopped since.

Since 2014 I actively write a blog in Italian about Atlassian products and I try every day to shape these products adapting them to the needs of my customers.

[pratik n]

I learned this wornderful Jira software. This is just a kind of tool that I have been searcing. I would like to learn more about it. Hi my name is Pratik. Happy to be a part of Jira and confluence community. I would like to learn and share knowledge and experience here. Thanks!

[Darryl Lee]

Awesome to have you here @pratik n .

Don't forget to check out Atlassian University to ramp up the product knowledge across the Atlassian products family -> https://university.atlassian.com/student/collection/850385-learning-paths

Hope this is also helpful for you.

Welcome to the community. 👋

[Brittany Joiner]

Hi all! Long time Trello fan, and we're starting to roll out Jira and work, so I'm excited to learn more about the Atlassian Suite!

• I've known about Jira for a while, just never had a good reason to play with it until recently.
• We haven't officially rolled it out yet, but because I'm excited I've gotten early access to look around. So I'm still trying to get the lay of the land, and figure out how my team will use it.
• I'm most interested in figuring out how to use it to see my workflow for the sprint and understand how the stories I'm contributing to are part of bigger and more meaningful projects. Also interested in how it will sync with github. 
• Actually don't have any funny Jira stories...... yet 😂

[Nature 2008]

Hey! I am new here. I am still doing a course on agile and that's why I am here. Actually, Jira isn't all that boring and the hard subject I had thought it might be I am delighted and looking forward to doing projects here, of course after finishing the course!

[Darryl Lee]

It's awesome to have you here @Nature 2008 

Welcome to the Community!

[Jennifer Aikins-Appiah]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to intelliflo and to this group and quite excited to learn as much as I can. I am very much a Jira freshie so would love to hear any great tips and tricks you have to share. Much appreciated - answers to questions below:

• When did you first time find out about Jira? In my previous employment but I did not use it as my department had no real need for it.
• Where are you in the process of adopting Jira? Only considering it or already implemented and looking for some extension? I've been encouraged to adopt it to make life easier for my team and I in managing projects and our day to day workflow, hence why I'm now learning. Also, it seems to be the modus operandi at intelliflo, so when in Rome...
• Which topics about Jira are you interested the most and what would you help you? Hmmm... how to learn Jira in 1 hour?? HAHA.  To be honest I don't know where to even start, but I'll be doing the course on the learning academy to understand the basics. 
• Do you have any funny stories connected to Jira? Give me time, I'm sure I will!! :D 

Look forward to collaborating!

[Kishan Sharma]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community @Jennifer Aikins-Appiah !!

[Darryl Lee]

It's awesome to have you here @Jennifer Aikins-Appiah !

Welcome to the Community. 👋

[Srinatha T]

Welcome to the community. @Jennifer Aikins-Appiah 

[Nick Haller]

Hi Everyone! 

As a Support Engineer with Opsgenie, Jira is one of our more popular integrations to help notify the correct users about new Jira issues, have Opsgenie alerts automate the creation of Jira issues, or both!

Automation rules are one of my favorite features. A pretty common ask is "How can we get the Jira issue linked to the Opsgenie alert?" Our new integration framework offers this, but a lot of customers continue to use the older framework for various reasons.

By default, the Jira issue link does not post in the Opsgenie alert through the older framework. But an automation rule can be configured to add a comment on the issue, which can then add a note in the Opsgenie alert, and include a link to the issue! The rule and example can be viewed below:

https://sitename.atlassian.net/browse/{{key}}

Automation rules are so powerful, so wanted to share one that we typically suggest to customers. Hope it helps!!

[Darryl Lee]

Great write-up @Nick Haller !

[Mayur Jadhav]

Hi Everyone!!!

• When did you first time find out about Jira?

First time I heard about Jira in 2019, when I was in collage, and around 2020 during pandemic I  started learning the Jira Administration part.

I enjoyed Automation Part in Jira Cloud, it makes things very easy.

[Srinatha T]

Welcome to the Community @Mayur Jadhav 

[Mayur Jadhav]

Thanks @Srinatha T 

[Benjamin]

Welcome to the community!

[Mayur Jadhav]

Thanks @Benjamin 

[Allison McIlmoyl]

Hey there! I'm very new to Jira, but I have used Trello and Asana in the past, so project management tools like this are familiar to me. I am learning Jira for my new job and so far I am liking it! Can't wait to keep learning.

[Darryl Lee]

Hey @Allison McIlmoyl Welcome!

Here is the Jira Software Cloud documentation site if there's any specific topic or feature you are interested in -> https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRASOFTWARE/Jira+Software+Documentation

[Mayur Jadhav]

Welcome @Allison McIlmoyl 

[John Funk]

Hello and Welcome, Allison!

[Benjamin]

Welcome to the community @Allison McIlmoyl !

[dashon_hawkins]

Hello Everyone! 👋🏽 I have known about Jira and Atlassian for about 10 years now (only been a software engineer since mid-2018). Therefore, this is actually my 1st time using the product. I've used several other competing ones in the past. Currently, I am contracted on a team that is very remote, yet very Scrum-focused.

I felt that it was a very good time to actually learn and use the product, in order to give it a fair assessment. It is more mature than and not as stuffy as I thought it was. I'm excited 🥳 to learn how I can implement & tailor it properly with my own boutique firm while I am getting familiar with it a larger scale team.

If it is not already available, I think that a complete highly interactive LMS that uses cutting-edge aesthetics with different implementation scenarios would be an excellent way to self-learn the platform. I learn best by getting my hands dirty and I know that I'm not alone. Well, that's my spill. Take care! ✌🏽

[Darryl Lee]

I would recommend you start with the free course at Atlassian University to ramp up the product knowledge of Jira, when you begin with some hands-on and feel stuck with any features, it would be fairly easy to search on the Jira Documentation Site.

[OLA O]

welcome.