☕ Weekly Atlassian News Roundup | 17th July 2023

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

Happy Monday everyone!

We had FUN in Brighton again as @Fun Man Andy arrived to share the best of this week's community events and talked about the Atlassian influence and podcast community! ✨

Thank you for joining us Andy! 🌈

🚀 New improvements

Jira Work Management updates

What's new in Jira Work Management - new course at Atlassian University, open forms, and Confluence integration in board view. With Open forms enable everyone who can access Jira to see the forms, not only users who can create issues in Jira.

👀 Important announcements

Research - Kanban for JSM

Atlassian is working on a new feature - Kanban boards for Jira Service Management. And need your help with finding volunteers for research. It's really easy to participate - In a 1-hour video call, you'll explore the prototype, perform tasks, and share your feedback.

🗓 Events

Jira July 23

Join this years Jira July to. celebrate Jira and earn special kudos badge. Activities include creating a riddle to win the Jira Riddle Cup, sharing a masterpiece for the "Your Starting Line-up" challenge, and adding a favorite song to the Jira Jams Playlist.

Find all upcoming events on 👉 Events Calendar

📚 Article of the week

Interview with Mark Scarr, Senior Director of Data Science at Atlassian

Learn about the Atlassian ML team's work on machine learning (ML) projects, such as recommendation engines and customer lifetime value modeling, and generative AI, such as text summarization and automatic ticket generation.

💡Interesting fact: The team considers moving beyond keyboard interaction towards voice-based interaction with tools like Jira and Confluence.

[Patrícia Fortunato Montenegro]

Thanks for sharing the news, and it was so good to see Peanut and @Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_

Kudos to Fun Man Andy!

[Taranjeet Singh]

@Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_ , @Fun Man Andy , thank you for sharing the latest weekly episode of Atlassian news updates!

[Andy Gladstone]

@Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_ and @Fun Man Andy I am honored to get two mentions in this week's video! First time I heard 'Online Andy' - i thought we settled on Serious Man Andy 😉. I'll take it!

[Summer_Hogan]

Loved this weeks episode! Great job @Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_ and @Fun Man Andy!