Atlassian Community Round-up: October 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!

• First up, there has been a refresh to the community guidelines. One of the main things that keeps this community great is everyone being respectful of one another and following the rules. Never seen the guidelines? Be sure to check them out!
  Brand New Community Guidelines! ✨

• Next, for all you badge hunters out there, the Kudos passport is a new way for you to collect them all with a curated set of community challenges for you to follow to earn the Community Voyager badge. Wanna know what you need to do to get? Go read the article for details.
  Introducing Kudos passport!

• Speaking of new things to earn. The Atlassian Certification team has announced new titles/designations for you to work towards. This new system replaces the Atlassian Certificated Expert designation and you should go check out the article to learn more about what is available for you.
  New Atlassian certification designations - coming soon! 🎉

• Are you looking to earn a certification or one of the new designations? You should read this amazing article by @Hana Kučerová all about earning her first ACA certification, including how you can get extra assistance from Success Central (which I had never heard of before reading this).
  My first ACA certification

• Next, in case you missed it, you might want to check the recording on this webinar about how you can use Loom and Jira to reduce the number of meetings you are sitting in each day.
  WEBINAR: Fewer meetings, faster projects with Loom and Jira

• Next, Team '24 in Europe happened this month and if you (like me) were unable to attend in person, you need to read this recap by @Patricia Modispacher _appanvil_. This does a wonderful job of taking us through everything that happened that I (almost) feel like I was there.
  My First Teams: From Disillusionment 😓 to My Cinderella Moment 👠✨

• Next up, we all need a reminder of the best practices for Agile and @Fadoua has done a wonderful job of reminding us of some of those things we sometimes forget.
  Best Agile Project Management Training Tips for Using Jira

• Finally, AI is all the rage right now and @Teodora V _Fun Inc_ has written a wonderful piece on how to use AI and Confluence together to make your teams more productive.
  Beyond AI: Putting the 'fun' in FUNctional Teams

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, if you regularly use many of the default gadgets for Jira Dashboards, you are going to want to read this article. As of Dec. 9th of this year, Atlassian will be decommissioning 5 of them and they will no longer function as of that date. Be sure to see if this will affect your environment.
  We're ending support for five dashboard gadgets on Dec. 9, 2024

• Next, for everyone on Atlassian Cloud Enterprise products, you will be pleased to see the latest update that will give you more control over new product requests for Trello and BitBucket. For all the rest of us on premium or lower, we will need to keep requesting for this to be available.
  An update on product requests: bringing shadow IT controls to Trello and Bitbucket

• Next, New AI features are helping you increase the speed at which you can create tasks or Jira issues from within Confluence.
  Speed up the way you create tasks with the help of Confluence

• Continuing with Confluence, you can now add images directly form a link in the image macro. Curious? Check out the article for details.
  Adding images from links now supported in Confluence

• One more for Confluence, Whiteboards are getting AI features now too! Soon you will be able to generate, cluster and summarize your sticky notes using Atlassian Intelligence.
  Say hello to new Atlassian Intelligence features in Confluence!

• Do you remember Beacon? At Team '24 the beta product was renamed and rolled into the Guard Premium subscription, and it is now generally available. If you are looking for a more proactive way to be notified about threats in your Atlassian instance, you should read more about it today!
  The wait is over: Atlassian Guard Premium is now generally available!

• Moving over to JSM, rollout of the updated project settings navigation. This change is designed to group related items together, provide clearer labels for some of the items and bring consistency to the layout and patterns. If you would like to view the full list of changes, go check out the article.
  📣 Updated project settings navigation in Jira Service Management

• Finally as of this being posted, Atlassian is renaming the “Services” object type in the JSM Assets Services Schema to “Software services“ introducing three new object types: Applications, Business services and Capabilities. If this is something that will affect you, I would encourage you to read the full article to see what you need to do to accommodate this change.
  New types for Services in Assets for Jira Service Management cloud

Trending discussions you should join:

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

• What’s on your productivity playlist? Add your recommendations to get a badge! 🎶

• Play of the Month: Stay up to date with your team!

• What makes feedback most effective? Share your thoughts to receive a new kudos badge!

• Default Dashboards

• Atlassian Rovo Vs. Glean AI: How Do They Compare?

Automation Corner:

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

• 📢 September Recap: 10 New MIND BLOWING Features in Confluence Automation ⚡️

• JSM Newbies: let’s talk automation! ⚡️

• JSM Operations: How to page the Major Incident Team with Jira Automation

• OpsGenie API Overview

• Automation concepts -- Dynamic searches within a list

• How to detect duplicate screens in Jira - part 3

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!

[Barbara Szczesniak]

Thanks @Jimmy Seddon I've forwarded a couple of article links to others on my team who work on Jira and JSM.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Jimmy Seddon 

Thanks for the round-up information, and...

FYI the sunset of those dashboard gadgets has been delayed to May 2025.  The details are in that article you linked (and other community posts).  Unfortunately, they have not changed the title yet so that is contributing to the "spirited conversation" on this decision ;^)

Kind regards,
Bill

[Jimmy Seddon]

Thanks for the correction @Bill Sheboy!

[Chance Webb]

As always, Jimmy - LOVE your monthly round-ups!
Thank you for all you do for the Atlassian Community!

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

Thank you for featuring my article @Jimmy Seddon!  

[Doreen Undiri]

Thank you for the monthly roundup 

[Andy Gladstone]

One of the highlights of the start to any month. Miss seeing you in the video version though!

Thanks for the compilation of amazing information.

[Yuliia Tkachenko _Railsware_]

Thank you for the roundup and useful resources! 

[Patricia Modispacher _appanvil_]

Thanks for mentioning my article! :)

[Hrudu Shibu]

thanks

[Tuncay Senturk]

Thanks as always!

[Kegan Cassidy]

Hi @werner have a look at this article

[Hana Kučerová]

Thanks a lot for mentioning two my articles.