☕️ Weekly Atlassian News Roundup | 28th March 2022

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Good morning community,

sending you some good read from sunny Berlin ☀️. This week we had a special guest to help us deliver the latest news from across the Atlassian ecosystem - @Lucy Gregory  from Atlassian!

There are some BIG news Lucy shared with us so go have a look at the video or read through the roundup below 👇

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✨ Important announcements

Atlassian doubles its VC fund to $147m

Atlassian is more than doubling the Atlassian Ventures fund size! They made so far made over 30 investments, many of which are in the Atlassian ecosystem of apps. If you are interested in applying for funding fill out the application on atlassian.com/ventures!

Atlassian's Response to the LAPSUS$ Okta Incident

Okta, the identity provider, was the target of a ransomware attack made public on 22nd March last week by the LAPSUS$ group. Atlassian released a statement to clarify if there was any impact on Atlassian.

Jira Heroes March '22 Spotlight: Rachel Wright

Rachel shares a step-by-step guide on choosing the best Marketplace apps for your needs, including navigation to the embedded Marketplace within Jira, assessing app capabilities and installing apps for a trial period prior to purchase.

🗓 Events

Webinar Recap: Forge Roadmap Q1 2022

Every quarter the Forge dev team runs a webinar communicating new updates released to the Forge framework as well as upcoming work, read this sum-up article to stay in the loop in case you missed the event.

Reminder to register for TEAM 22 View parties

Reminder to grab a last-minute ticket or find out where your nearest Global Viewing Party is being held! Viewing parties are located in New York, London, Berlin, Sydney, Bangalore, and Nairobi.

🚀 Latest new improvements and announcements to the Atlassian products

Introducing the burndown insight for Jira Software Cloud

Now you can access the Burndown Insight report from within your board, rather than needing to navigate away from what you're doing to view the information.

📚Article of the week

Why Being Vulnerable And Sharing More Of Yourself Will Inspire Your Team

Research shows that while 80% of leaders think they are transparent with their teams, only 55% of their employees agree. The author believes that vulnerability builds trust, psychological safety, engagement and performance and provides some practical steps you can take

Thank you @Lucy Gregory for joining us today. We hope to have you on Monday coffee again soon!

Have a lovely week everyone ☕️

[Andy Gladstone]

@Nikki Zavadska [Appfire] this was my Monday Morning Commute this week. Still waiting on the coffee, but fully caffeinated from the updates! You and Biro will be missed at Team '22!

[Taranjeet Singh]

Thanks for sharing the news updates, @Nikki Zavadska [Appfire] ! Great work!

[Nikki Zavadska [Appfire]]

@Andy Gladstone and @Taranjeet Singh 💚☕️ Glad to see you around here 🙏

@Andy Gladstone we're going to be at the London viewving party so we hope to meet at least a few community folks there 😌