Dear Work Therapist ... how much is too much?

Liam Green
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July 30, 2021

Dear Work Therapist

Is there such a thing as too much Atlassian? 

I'm worried it is spilling over into my personal life... I keep thinking of ways I can use JWM out of work.  It is wrong to try and suggest to my fiancée that we use it to plan the wedding (asking for a friend!)

Should I think about asking family members to submit contact requests through a JSM portal?

My dreams now come in 2 week sprints, with a massive backlog - do I see a doctor about this?

Please help!

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Trey Washmon July 30, 2021

I know the feeling, ive been dreaming in JIRA lately.

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Matt Doar
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July 30, 2021

My answer is "yes". I do the dreaming about solving problems thing too. But the hardest part is swapping out of the "everything is a task" way of thinking, back into family time. There is no need for a task for eating dinner.

And I'm pretty sure there are other people who have used Jira to plan their weddings. I would imagine the problems come if you assign tasks to the other person without discussing it properly :)

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Trey Washmon July 30, 2021

.......Now im considering building a project called wedding and building a workflow for the best man and other staff.

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Liam Green
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July 30, 2021

Use the JWM forms to capture the food requests and allergies of all the guests. 

Not quite sure what automation you'd need - but sure we could come up with something!

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Trey Washmon July 30, 2021

This feels like a team project guys, whose in?

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July 30, 2021

LOL - my wedding is next summer and now I am seriously considering using JWM to plan it 😂

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July 30, 2021

Congrats! And go for it. Let me know how you get on and if its successful I can suggest it to my better half

Trey Washmon July 30, 2021

Hahaha, thats awesome, congrats! I think you should! i bet it would be funny to present at the very least!

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July 30, 2021

Depends on how you define "Atlassian" wink. Is it the continuous improvement angle, because if so, keep fueling my tank with that!

A couple gems to share on that note:

For what it's worth, I've used Trello to plan a vacation with a friend and have worked through a writing project with Confluence. And I'm not mad about it :)

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Jack Brickey
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July 31, 2021

Personally I would use JSM here because then your family members could be non-paying customers! wink

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Liam Green
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July 31, 2021

I like the idea of a family portal!

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August 2, 2021

One of my associates has a personal JSM portal for her family!

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August 3, 2021

She may well be my idol!!

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July 31, 2021

Hi @Liam Green I have a colleague who has Jira on his own home server instance for maybe 10 years.

He collects all the bills there, he plans everything there with his wife...

I think it can work if your fiancée and friends are not resistant to it... I think it can be the worst part :D.

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July 31, 2021

I think logging all your bills is a great idea

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August 1, 2021

@Liam Green - I've had many a work dream, but never a Jira dream. But tonight may be the night! 😂

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August 2, 2021

You never know!!

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August 1, 2021

@Liam Green I know just how you feel, please do share when you find an answer to this question. ;)

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August 2, 2021

I'm not sure we'll ever have an answer!  I say just embrace the Jira and let it wash over your life!

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August 2, 2021

Hi @Liam Green ,

the more I use, the more I love it :-).

I would use it! You know these systems and you won't need to test any other, because in the end you will probably need some tool for management.

I wish you a wonderful wedding and that you enjoy it as much as all your guests!

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August 2, 2021

@Hana Kučerová 

Thank you!

We're a long way off - haven't actually set a date yet, but I guess it is never too early to start the planning!

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Hana Kučerová
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August 2, 2021

@Liam Green So, that means you've got plenty of time to show your fiancée, how does Jira work :-)))

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August 2, 2021

She already uses it for work so she will either be completely on board or will veto the idea straight away!

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August 2, 2021

Hi @Liam Green 

hahaha, I think you could use Trello to make the wedding plan!!!! I've used it for soooo many things...

Personally I think that I also extrapolate many things from atlassian to my daily life, even the school girls' schedules I have them on a trello board... I love it 💙!!

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August 3, 2021

Hi @Paloma Fondon Araujo 

I must admit, I don't really use Trello - so I don't think I'd trust it for my wedding... I might suggest it to my fiancée though.

I think the products do actually adapt really well to everyday life - especially for planning, etc.

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August 3, 2021

@Liam Green I would recommend moderation in all things.  As far as being organized by using awesome software for your wedding I would recommend going for it.  Congrats by the way.

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August 4, 2021

Thanks Brant - I think I'm going to put something together to present to her!

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August 4, 2021

Nah, go with it. Embrace your inner geek ... or even your outer geek.

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August 5, 2021

To be honest - I think you're completely right here!  I love my (and my fiancée's) geekyness!

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August 5, 2021

LOL!

That was hilarious! But other than that I totally feel you :)

There was a time that I was sleeping, eating, and drinking Jira. It was like a virus inside your head!

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August 5, 2021

Thanks @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ 

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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August 12, 2021

@Liam Green that is scary but awesome at the same time :-) ... and familiar 

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August 22, 2021

Hi @Liam Green 

   I understand your feeling, the same thing has happened to me in a time of my life, jajajaja 

   Atlassian for everything

Cheers

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September 14, 2021

All I can tell you @Liam Green  welcome to my world! Between the Atlassian Community and ScriptRunner many times I find myself in bed thinking about one of the two.

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October 2, 2021

Someone wanted to plan their wedding in jira cloud on a free version recently and I told them not to do it because you would have to spend so much time onboarding people (wedding party), but I would like to hear how it went with you.

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