Atlassian Community Round-up: January 2024

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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, 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!

• I hate to start another round up with a security vulnerability. But, as you know from when I have posted these in the past, they are extremely important. Please read the posting and do everything you need to in order to protect yourself and your company as soon as possible.
  Action Required: Confluence Data Center and Server security advisory CVE-2023-22527

• Are you looking to find your way around in the community? You should bookmark this article. It’s a great resource for helping you locate important things that are happening.
  Atlassian Community Launchpad 🚀

• Do you love kudos and badges as much as I do? Then you aren’t going to want to waste any time getting the first new badge of 2024 all about Atlas.
  New year, new projects, new badges!

• Last year, we all did some amazing work planting trees and removing plastic from the ocean simply by liking and commenting on community posts. Do you want the details on exactly what impact we had? Go read the numbers for yourself! Also, be sure to get involved again this year as every single like and comment actually makes a difference!
  The Atlassian Community helps the planet 🌳 🌊

• For everyone that works in a highly restricted Data Center environment, you might want to check this out. Atlassian now has security hardened Data Center containers that you can deploy. If that caught your attention, you should read the full article.
  Iron Bank makes easy and secure DevSecOps a reality

• Are you interest in learning more about the people behind Jira Work Management? This is a wonderful interview with Senior Engineering Manager, @Amanda Adams. She has some amazing stories to share and I highly recommend reading through the entire interview.
  The People of Jira Work Management: Amanda Adams

• Speaking of amazing people with a wealth of information to share, @Amanda Barber also has an interview all about her success using the Atlassian Team Playbook to help make her teams more effective.
  How Amanda Barber builds a shared understanding with her teams using the Atlassian Team Playbook

• And, @Amanda Barber isn’t done there. Want to learn how to take some effective meeting notes? please check out this article. I know I learned a couple of tricks, such as tagging attendees ahead of the scheduled meeting time to have them help add important items to the agenda and to be able to come prepared to the meeting.
  Take Effective Meeting Notes in Confluence 📝

• Finally, @Nikki Zavadska [Appfire], has some awesome tips on blocking time in your calendar so you can focus on the work that matters the most. Go check it out, you might back able to get more of that focus time you have been looking for!
  Teamwork Tuesday #1: How to make time for the work that matters

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 up, Jira Work Management offers some great new features, including: creating new fields from list view, more templates & a Monday.com importer. Check out the article for all the details.
  New year, new releases ✅ Import from Monday, template bundles, and more

• Next up, is an opportunity within Jira Product Discovery, to join the early access program for the new Stakeholder sharing experience. If you are using JPD, consider signing up today. If you aren’t now might be the time to give it a try.
  Early Access Program for the Stakeholders/Sharing experience

• Staying within the Jira family, Jira Software now offers a new way to bulk update tickets from the backlog view of a board. This new, slick method will make it much easier and faster to change multiple tickets at once while performing sprint planning.
  A new way to bulk update tickets in Jira Software

• Next, Team Managed projects has a new workflow editing experience. While I may not always be a fan of Team Managed projects, I’m a big fan of this new workflow editor. Go check it out in this article, I think you’re going to like it too!
  Jira's New Workflow Editor for Team-Managed Projects

• Next, if you are a power user of Advanced Roadmaps, I’m looking at you Jira Cloud Premium members. The product team for “Plans“ (the new name for Advanced Roadmaps) would like to speak with you about the future of this product. Are you interested in providing your feedback? Go to this article to sign up for a feedback session today.
  Contribute to the Future Roadmap of Jira Plans (formerly Advanced Roadmaps)

• Continuing with Premium, did you know that there are now tons of features that you gain access to by being subscribed to premium? If you have been hesitant because you weren’t sure how much value you were gaining, go check out this article. It might change your mind.
  🥳 Plan a happy new year with Jira Premium

• Next, Atlas is making it easier for you to keep everyone up to date by allowing you do post updates from Jira, Slack and Teams. Haven’t given Atlas a try yet? Why not start now?
  ✏️ Write updates from where you work!

• Jira Service Management Cloud is allowing you to expand further with support for 20K agents. As more teams outside of IT are starting to use JSM for their work intake the ability to support a larger number of agents is important. This article also details some number features for scaling with enterprise demand, go read about them here.
  Continue to Scale with Jira Service Management Cloud 🎉

• Have you tried JSM Assets yet? If like me you have but, would like to be able to surface these on a Confluence page, I have great news for you. The ability to surface assets on a Confluence page is now in open beta! Atlassian is currently rolling out this open beta so if you don’t see it just yet, keep checking.
  Now in open beta: Surface your Assets objects in Confluence Cloud!

• Finally, Space Permissions in Confluence is getting a much needed look and feel update! Improved UX including separate tabs for users, groups, guests and anonymous access. Keep your eyes open for that one coming soon!
  New Space Permissions Experience

Trending discussions you should join:

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

• Signups for Miscellanous Monday: January - March 2024

• What features would you add to Confluence?

• Friday Fun - The Four C's

• Friday Fun - Spin the Wheel

• Regarding CVE-2023-49070

Questions left out in the cold:

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

• how to see total story points for a sprint that has not been started yet?

• possible to automate status label based on checklist?

• I'm trying to add open/closed hours, and i'm completely stumped

• Best Practices for Pushing Code to Bitbucket Repositories

• Workflow transition based on the approval and field value

• Is it possible to have a set number of tags?

• Track version of component deployed to each environment in compass

Automation Corner:

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

• How to close Opsgenie alerts when a Jira Cloud issue is moved to another project

• 📣 Smart Values in CQL results (related entities) and For each task branches

• Now Available - Define Stale Pages Based on Last Viewed Activity! 🎉

• Video Demo: A4J Data Center Lookup Issues

• SOC 2 Certifications Update

• ISO 27001:2013 Certification Updates

It’s hard to believe another month has already come and gone. Please be sure to stay healthy, stay safe and I’ll see you back here next month.

Take care!

[Daria Kulikova]

Thanks for sharing 

[Amanda Barber]

Great round-up, and thanks for sharing my articles! 💜

[Khairul]

A big thanks for the invaluable monthly roundup! It brilliantly captures the month's highlights.Your dedication in gathering and presenting this information is truly commendable.

[Nikki Zavadska [Appfire]]

Thank you for the roundup and highlighting Teamwork Tuesday 💙✨

[Patrícia Fortunato Montenegro]

Fantastic, @Jimmy Seddon. Thank you so much! 😃

[Barbara Szczesniak]

Thank you. I focus on Confluence, but was able to share the Jira bulk edit feature with my scrum master. He was very happy I shared.

[Dipaka Patra]

Thanks for sharing! Great insights about the product updates and new features.

[Caroline C Moretto]

Thanks for sharing! Those were amazing topics to keep up to date! Well done! 🏅

[Annie _DevSamurai]

Great! Thanks for sharing useful info 

[Summer Hogan]

Great round up @Jimmy Seddon 

[Kevin Price]

Thanks for the links!

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

Give this man a medal! @Jimmy Seddon priceless monthly hub of information, as always 💙