Atlassian Community Round-up: April 2023

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Hello Everyone!

It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events (<cough>TEAM '23<cough>), to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for everyone. Let’s get started!

Announcements & Highlights:

As always, there are a TON of amazing things happening and here is just a small sample of all the great things you don’t want to miss out on!

• First up, let’s talk Team '23! @Rodney Nissen - ReleaseTEAM aka “The Jira Guy“ have put together a great montage of everything that was announced at Team '23. If you missed any of the Keynotes this is the article to read! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Team-23-So-Many-Announcements/ba-p/2343132

• If you have followed a number of the Welcome Wednesday posts, you will know that on occasion we cover the Work Check podcast! Would you like to know all the secret tips on how to run your own version? I know I do! You should read this, especially if you are interested in bringing this idea to an event near you. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab-articles/How-to-run-your-own-Work-Check-podcast-style-debate-for-events/ba-p/2328872

• The legendary team tour was fantastic when it made it’s way through a number of local Atlassian Community Events chapters. If you missed it, you can check out the recorded webinar version from the link in this article. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend watching it!https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab-articles/Let-s-talk-about-legendary-teams/ba-p/2329853

• For those of you that regularly contribute to questions in the online community, you are likely familiar with Atlassian’s public bug/suggestion tracker jira.atlassian.com (“JAC“). Atlassian is making some changes to the way in which new items will be added there. I’d recommend reading through this article to completely understand how this may affect you. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Feedback-Forum-articles/We-re-changing-how-we-manage-feature-suggestions/ba-p/2328033

• New in the Online community, you will now be able to hover over the lozenge next to someone’s new (like my Community Leader one) and it will give you a short description of what that person’s role is within the community. Be sure to check these out if you don’t already know the roles as it will help you understand a bit more about your fellow community members! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Feedback-Forum-articles/Community-release-notes-for-April-24-2023/ba-p/2340975

• Community Leaders are volunteers to freely give their spare time to help others because they are passionate about the Atlassian tools and the community and ecosystem that surrounds them. This month we are learning more about @Sam Nadarajan and the amazing work he is doing both online and in the Benin City & Delhi-Gurugram local events chapters. Go read the article to learn more about all the wonderful things he’s doing!https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Welcome-Center-articles/Community-Leader-Sam-Nadarajan-shares-his-passion-for-meeting/ba-p/2313476

• We are probably all familiar with Agile concepts and how to use them to deliver software. But, have you considered adapting them to your daily life? @Teodora V _Fun Inc_ has a fascinating read about how she is personally using agile concepts to help her adapt to and become more productive in her daily life.https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Agile-articles/How-Agile-Can-Help-You-Build-Resiliency/ba-p/2326401

New Features & Product Updates:

Want to keep up to date on all the cool things Atlassian has announced about their products? Be sure to read through these, then go check out all the others for your favorite product!

• First, we don’t normally see Early Access Programs for Atlassian Access. If you are interested in being involved in an advanced look at restricting exporting data from Confluence, you should go check this out! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trust-Security-articles/Sign-up-for-early-access-to-data-security-policies/ba-p/2329210

• Next, do you want to be able to access Jira training without ever having to leave your Jira instance? Well, do I have great news for you! Now you can do just that! With a new Marketplace app developed by Atlassian’s University team that allows you to take university courses without ever having to leave Jira. How cool is that? https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Training-Certification-articles/Bring-your-own-training-and-Atlassian-University-courses/ba-p/2340546

• Yes, another beta/early access program (get used to seeing lots of these). This time it’s Jira’s command palette! Think of it like the ultimate shortcut for getting to the commands and actions you want to execute. Sounds interesting? Go sign up today! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Introducing-Command-Palette-for-Jira/ba-p/2338582

• While were talking about Jira Work Management, do you know the differences between it and Jira Software? I thought I did, but there’s actually so much more that Jira Work Management is capable of than I realized. You should read through this if you aren’t sure, you might learn something new! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Work-Management-Articles/What-are-the-differences-between-Jira-Software-and-Jira-Work/ba-p/2320266

• I wanted to share this one because it felt really cool to me. This is something new in both the Cloud and DC versions of Bitbucket where comments on pull requests are now resolvable. This brings a nice quality of life to completing fixes in pull requests! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-articles/Simplify-code-review-in-Bitbucket-with-resolvable-comments/ba-p/2331486

• Yes that’s right, dark mode is coming to all Atlassian products (we just need Confluence next…)! If you want to sign up to try dark mode for Trello go check it out in this article! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-articles/Trello-dark-mode-is-now-in-beta/ba-p/2331496

• There were a ton of really cool announcements for Compass at Team ‘23, including the expected pricing. If you want to learn more about Compass ahead of it’s pending GA announcement, now is the time to check it out! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Compass-articles/Team-23-Guide-to-Atlassian-s-newest-announcements-for-Compass/ba-p/2337995

• Lastly, one of the features announced at Team '23 that I was caught off guard by, but am very looking forward to trying is Confluence Whiteboards. I think this is going to be extremely valuable to my company based on the use cases we have. If you missed the announcement go check it out! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Introducing-Confluence-whiteboards/ba-p/2329216

Trending discussions you should join:

Want to join in on some trending discussions? Be sure to check these out!

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Official-Atlassian-Events/Ready-to-rock-Team-23-Drop-by-booth89-for-some-fun-and-games/td-p/2331182

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Watercooler-discussions/Friday-Fun-Vegas-Vibes/td-p/2332360

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Official-Atlassian-Events/Bash-Theme-Time-Capsule/td-p/2312268

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Who-Knew-Exporting-PDFs-Could-Be-a-Delightful-Experience/td-p/2324972

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/Balancing-between-team-managed-and-company-managed-projects/td-p/2320007

Questions left out in the cold:

Why not lend a hand to another fellow Community Member and try answering some of these questions!

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-to-create-a-filter-for-an-advanced-roadmap-plan/qaq-p/2312674

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Create-page-with-all-confluence-articles-Outdated/qaq-p/2318202

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management/How-to-automate-edit-Issue-Request-types-for-incoming-email/qaq-p/2313764

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/How-to-Manage-Users-in-Bitbucket-DC/qaq-p/2296630

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Unable-to-locate-a-board-I-created/qaq-p/2308564

Automation Corner:

Looking for inspiration to optimize your processes? Check out some of the cool things people are doing with automation!

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/What-s-New-in-Atlassian-Automation-Jan-Feb-March-2023-Edition/ba-p/2333498

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/Request-input-from-users-when-a-Manual-rule-is-triggered/ba-p/2333587

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Add-predefined-values-and-create-a-Calculation-Form-with-Assets/ba-p/2319904

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Delete-empty-columns-in-CSV-exported-files-by-Excel/ba-p/2326864

If you were able to attend Team '23 in person, I hope you were able to get everything out of it that you wanted! If you are like me, you probably have so many things to now investigate and figure out how you are going to start using it. Please be sure to stay healthy, stay safe and I’ll see you back here next month.

Take care!

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

Thank you for featuring my article @Jimmy Seddon 😌

With so many updates, I would need a month to catch up with a ... month!

[Andy Gladstone]

I test my knowledge of the community and Atlassian ecosystem based on how many (or few) of the articles you highlight each month I was previously aware of. I think I had my highest score with today's post! Thanks for pulling this treasure trove of information together each month @Jimmy Seddon. 

[Allie]

Thanks for posting these updates in an easy-to-digest way!

[Summer Hogan]

Thanks for the round up @Jimmy Seddon! 

[Marjorie]

Thanks @Jimmy Seddon 

[Andreas Springer {Actonic}]

Always impressed by just the sheer number of things you put into these round-ups. Thanks, @Jimmy Seddon

[Mike Rink -drawio Diagrams-]

Thanks for the round-up @Jimmy Seddon . It was definitely a great event, and I know our team came away really energized to get back to work (and excited for Team '24!). 

[Ken McClean]

Thanks for the roundup! Great work as always

[Abhinav Shilwant]

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

If Confluence has dark mode I don't need any more b-day presents this year! 🌓

Thank you for the roundup @Jimmy Seddon !!

[ibrahim_aly]

Thank You

[Sachin Dhamale]

@Jimmy Seddon  Thanks for the information. Good to know about new features and Atlassian announcement

[Hamza Khan]

Awesome!

[Sanjog Sigdel]

Exciting