Atlassian Community Round-up: October 2022

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Hello Everyone,

I hope you all have recovered from your sugar crash yesterday! There is another great batch of articles for you to check out this month. So let’s not waste anymore time and dive into the everything I have for you:

• I think everyone is well aware that I generally try to stay away from the Apps & Integrations collection. This isn’t because there isn’t really great content in there (quite the opposite actually). I don’t want to be accused of playing favorites. However, I think it’s fair for me to recognize that October was “Apptoberfest“ and there are TONS of great articles written by our Marketplace Vendors and Solutions Partners that are worth reading. Go check out the Marketplace Apps & Integrations collection! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Apptoberfest-2022-is-here/ba-p/2146233

• In case you missed it, all Bitbucket accounts that aren’t tied to an Atlassian Account have been deactivated. You’ll want to read the article for details, but it looks like this will only affect people who had a Bitbucket account that hasn’t been used since 2017. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-articles/Deactivation-of-user-accounts-that-lack-an-Atlassian-account/ba-p/2169213

• Back by popular demand, Atlassian’s High Velocity ITSM event will be happening again this year. There will be an in person event on December 8th in London and a digital experience happening globally on December 13th. Be sure to get your free tickets today!https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Join-us-for-Atlassian-Presents-High-Velocity-ITSM/ba-p/2159245

• Speaking of big Atlassian Events, Atlassian is now accepting submissions for Team ‘23! If you have a talk you would like to present on Atlassian’s biggest stage, be sure to get your submission entered before November 10th! For anyone that has submitted a speaking pitch, good luck!https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Official-Atlassian-Events/Now-accepting-submissions-Team-23-Call-for-Speakers/ba-p/2160925

• Atlas was given it’s official launch name at Team '22 and it was stated that it would be leaving beta “soon“ and would be free of charge at launch. Atlassian has now announced new paid plans for Atlas with additional features. If you have started using Atlas and you want to see what you can do to “level up“ your experience, go check out these new offerings!https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlas-articles/Atlas-just-launched-paid-plans-and-is-officially-out-of-Beta/ba-p/2161297

• Atlassian just released their new Annual Security report. Do you want to know how they did in the past year? Go check out this article and the related links to their detailed Incident and Bug Bounty reports. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trust-Security-articles/July-2021-June-2022-Annual-Security-Incident-Report/ba-p/2159810

• Since we are already talking about security, this felt like the right time to point out that Atlassian has a new Point A product for you to try called “Beacon“. If you are looking for more detailed security monitoring and report for your Atlassian Cloud products, this is something you might want to take a closer look at (I know I will be).https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Feedback-Forum-articles/You-re-invited-to-try-our-new-security-monitoring-tool-Beacon/ba-p/2160587

• New from the Atlassian University, their entire library of on-demand paid courses are now just $39 USD each. If you have been putting off taking that course you thought might be helpful but it was too costly, now’s the time to check them out. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Training-Certification-articles/Wallet-friendly-pricing-is-here-Paid-on-demand-courses-are-now/ba-p/2167488

• Speaking of Atlassian University courses, what’s better than cheap courses? FREE COURSES! There is a new Intro to JQL in Jira Software course available that is completely free. This is one of the topics I need to help people with the most so I highly recommend it for anyone that isn’t already a JQL ninja. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Training-Certification-articles/Learn-advanced-search-with-JQL-in-Jira-Software-Free-30-minute/ba-p/2171788

• Last, but certainly not least is our amazing #JiraHeroes story for this month. Buckle up and make sure your sitting down for this one it’s going to take you on a wild ride as Dave Fey shares the impressive story of getting multiple teams to standardize on a since issue tracking tool (Jira) and whole process it took to get everyone speaking the same language and starting to use more standard ways of work for the same types of tasks!https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Jira-Heroes-How-Dave-Fey-leveraged-workflows-to-improve/ba-p/2165140

I know, I know, you want more don’t you? Good news! I have some of the top trending discussions for you to sink your teeth into as well:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlassian-Community-Contests/Open-road-open-roles-celebrate-AtlassiVan-and-remote-work-to/td-p/2153636

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/Out-of-curiosity-how-much-does-a-Jira-administrator-earn-in-2022/td-p/2150161

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlassian-Analytics-discussions/Looking-for-Participants-EAP-for-Confluence-Cloud-data-in/td-p/2146623

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Off-topic-discussions/Miscellaneous-Monday-Last-Song-Stuck-in-your-Head/td-p/2151461

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-discussions/New-Trello-Search-Feature-showing-as-a-list-now-is-HORRIBLE/td-p/2160579

I hope you enjoyed this month's collection and that everyone continues to remain healthy as we enter the colder months.  I'll see you all back here again next month!

[Stuart Capel - London]

Love it, great round up @Jimmy Seddon 

[Andy Gladstone]

@Jimmy Seddon I read this morning that Taylor Swift was the first artist to ever occupy all 10 spots in the Billboard Top 10 at once. But your greatest hits albums each month are pure platinum. Thanks for taking the time to add amazing value to the Community - you must hit thousands of pages each month and I have no idea how you keep track!

[Carolyn Allen]

@Jimmy Seddon - hey Jimmy, I've just been watching some of your YouTube content and just learning my way around the community.... As a relative newby to Atlassian suite and hoping to sit some certifications in the next few months, I just wondered if you can point me in the right direction for the Certification Accelerator Experience??   Any other tips as I do my prep for certification would be welcome.  :-)

[Huwen Arnone _Deiser_]

Great work, as usual @Jimmy Seddon. Thanks for sharing!!

[Jimmy Seddon]

Hi @Carolyn Allen!

The certification Accelerator program was an experiment by the Atlassian University to provide a more detailed and comprehensive set of material and to deliver in in a group within the Online Community so that you had easy access to others to prepare for the exam with.  Unfortunately, it was not considered successful as the number of people who registered vs the number to actually scheduled and took the exam was an extremely small margin.

My best recommendation is getting experience with the products.  Atlassian recommends at least 6 months of experience before writing the Managing Projects exam and I would consider that a foundation that has a number of similar topics with many of the other exams.

I would focus on getting experience and familiarity with many of the exam topics.  If you have the ability to perform some administration work on Jira as a part of your job that's the most valuable experience as you are getting real world applications of the product.

I hope that helps!

[Summer Hogan]

Great roundup @Jimmy Seddon! You deserve some Kudos for this! 

[Nikki Zavadska [Appfire]]

Thank you for the roundup Jimmy!!

[Sharon Halpin]

@Jimmy Seddon   As a relative newbie to the Atlassian community this is an excellent starting point!  Thank you!

[Ajay _view26_]

Thank you for the article @Jimmy Seddon .. waiting for the Nov roundup 😀

[Jonathan V.]

great recap @Jimmy Seddon 

[Paul Wiggers]

Thanks @Jimmy Seddon Always a pleasure to read the round-up, and the articles within while enjoying a cup of coffee :)

[Taranjeet Singh]

Thank you for this great monthly round-up, @Jimmy Seddon ! Great work!

[Robert Wen_Cprime_]

Great job as always, @Jimmy Seddon !

[Patrick Alexander]

Thanks for the round-up summary ! 

[Heydi Menéndez]

Thanks for this!!! Excellent content!

[Phill Fox]

Anyone else looking forward to the November round-up?