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New member introductions to the Agile Community Group

Kalee Williams

👋 👋 Howdy, and welcome!

If you’re new, we’re excited to have you. This group is a place where we hope you can engage, learn and share your perspective. All opinions are welcome.

The way the members of this group engage with each other is entirely based on the type of members that join. Thank you for bringing an open mind, thoughtful questions, and any wisdom you have to share with others.

Tell us a little about yourself! Our members will benefit from knowing the type of people that join this group.

Perhaps knowing your background will spark a question.
Perhaps the teams or type of company you work with will generate solidarity.
Perhaps you have the most unique experience and others want to learn more.
Perhaps you will meet a new friend for coffee chats to discuss work, ideas, and careers.

Whatever the case, consider responding to at least two of the icebreaker questions in the comments:

What type of team or company do you work for?
What is an antiquated way of working and how would you want to see it change?
What do you hope to get out of this group?
What do you hope to bring to this group?
What is your favorite Jira configuration tip and why?
Do you have a hobby or something you enjoy when not working?

💙 We appreciate you sharing your time and expertise with the community. 💙

Comments

Connor_lld39i

Hello, I've joined this group to learn about Agile and implement what I learn in my company's Jira instance.

What type of team or company do you work for? Software development company on the IT team.
What do you hope to get out of this group? A better understanding of the Agile methodology and how it can be implemented within Jira.

Craig Nodwell_7eve9b

Hi everyone, I'm Craig. I've been doing build and release management now for almost 30 years. Agile since 2006.
Glad to be here.

Kalee Williams

Welcome, Connor! This is the place to be to learn more about Agile Methodology.

In the meantime, check out the Jira Tutorials: Learn agile with Jira Software.

https://www.atlassian.com/agile/tutorials

Kalee Williams

Welcome, Craig! I can't wait to learn from you!

Craig Nodwell_7eve9b

Bet I learn more LOL
I treat all engagements as a learning opportunity, mine your yours matters not.
Thanks for the welcome.

Brittany Wispell

Hey all,

I've worked in the Atlassian suite for about 7 years now. From general Jira Administration of a single company to being a Consultant for an Atlassian partner.

Jumping right into some of the ice breaker questions...

What do you hope to get out of this group?
- Gain more insight and understanding of how teams are achieving agile and success stories or even pain point stories.
What is your favorite Jira configuration tip and why?
- More custom fields, does not mean better reporting.

Glad to be here, and excited to learn more!

-Brittany

Michael Andolfatto_a62ntx

Welcome @Brittany Wispell !

Mayur Jadhav_30osel

Welcome @Brittany Wispell

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Hey everyone,

I've been in the Atlassian ecosystem for a while now, so a lot of the audience here are thinking/feeling "Oh no, not again", but I realised I've been in this group (and contributing a bit) for ages, seeing new people introduce themselves a lot and not done it myself, which I think is a bit rude. So:

I was born, grew up, and live, in England. I've been a London commuter for 25 years, and lived with cats for longer, hence the profile picture of a cat on a railway line (Sorry, I can't stay too late after work, I need to get a train home so I can feed the cat)

I got a bit lucky with my career - I fell into a (proper) job tinkering with computers, which was one of the two things I was thoroughly enjoying doing at the time, and I ran into "Agile" mid-2001, spent 3 years trying to enable and support it, and then shifted into a role which emphasised this new-fangled Jira thing as a way to be a bit more Agile. It kind of stuck.

Kalee Williams

Welcome, Nic!

Summer Hogan_q8imea

Hi! My name is Summer Hogan and I work for CSAA Insurance Group (AAA Insurance) as a Product Owner. I own a product that sends email and text message communication to CSAA policyholders and my team and I use both JIRA and Confluence heavily! I have a team that consists of 6 developers, 2 QA engineers, and 1 scrum master. We do all of our work in JIRA and document all of our processes, heavy requirements, demo's, meeting notes, etc. in Confluence.

During my personal time, I love to hike, take walks when it's not smoldering hot in AZ, paint, build Legos, do puzzles and I'm a season ticket holder for ASU football. I just don't have enough time in life to do all these things on a consistent basis!

I am super thankful for this community and happy to be a part of it!

Robert Wen_Cprime_

Welcome fellow Arizonan!

Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_

Welcome, @Summer Hogan 👋 Congrats on the new job!

(We "met" {virtually} during the Team '20 event. You have a memorable name.)

Summer Hogan_q8imea

@Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_ Oh yeah, I remember you as well! Hope all is well with you! Thanks for the comment! Hope to "see" you again soon!

Alex W_jr9vvs

Hey all! I'm Alex, I work at Atlassian within our support team for Trello. My hobbies outside of work include gym, gaming, going to gigs (metal specifically), and travelling!

Okan Erdogan_i5ujtx

Hi everyone!

I'm a Salesforce Administrator & Product Manager working with a nonprofit based in Boston. I manage a team of Salesforce admins and developers. As soon as I joined the nonprofit team, I started creating our Jira projects and inviting my team. I was confident that Atlassian Suite would give us the platform to manage our tasks effectively and be productive at all times!

I would love to learn more and answer questions if we have new admins who might need some tips to get started with Jira. We will undoubtedly benefit from each other's experiences and implement helpful strategies for ultimate success!

My favorite configuration is the one I recently created. It's escalation automation of an issue with escalation reason. My users have to indicate a reason for escalation (custom field) when they try to move the issue to Escalated (custom stage). It gives me an insight into what went wrong and why they needed to escalate the issue in the first place.

Kalee Williams

Welcome and thanks for sharing, @Okan Erdogan

Rilwan Ahmed

Hi All,

My Name is Rilwan and I work for Netcracker. My company is into Telecom domain

I am a Jira and confluence admin here. Even though I am a jira admin, I lack knowledge in Agile methodologies as this is done mostly by project admins . Hoping to gain it from this group within Jira aspects.

I love playing cricket. I am an off spin bowler and a mid order batsman.
Also I am an good Kho Kho player.

Kalee Williams

Welcome, @Rilwan Ahmed

Summer Hogan_q8imea

Welcome @Rilwan Ahmed

Robert Wen_Cprime_

Welcome!

Jonathan V_

Hey everyone, my name is Jonathan and I'm a Change Management Manager for a Broker/Dealer (Finance Industry) located in Miami Florida.

We're a small to medium-sized company with a parent company based out of Switzerland.

I am a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner (Level II) and Professional Scrum Master (Level II).

I am slowly trying to adapt our institution to Agile and the wonderful benefits it brings.

I'm honestly hoping to see how others have been able to leverage Atlassian tools and Agile in their organizations and how they've been able to adapt and get business buy-in.

Hopefully my experiences will help some others too.

Robert Wen_Cprime_

welcome!

Heather Ronnebeck

Hi all!

My name is Heather and I'm one of the Community Leaders in Canada. I've played a variety of roles in the Atlassian ecosystem ranging from customer to partner and everything in between.

I'm also a PMP and Certified Scrum Master within the IT industry, and most of the companies I've done heavy agile with are in the media industry. My teams practice a lot of the scrum ceremonies and are pushing at the moment to really move the agile envelope to the next level.

I would like to see from this group tips and tricks to help marry the two areas together (Agile and Atlassian Products) in a way that makes sense for end users like devs and project managers in the the more daily lifecycle of work.

My personal hobby is actually using Lego. I enjoy making things to scale with the bricks, and when I can't do that (because my kid's claimed the entire collection) I also like to knit and crochet.

Johanna Pichotka_APTIS_

Hey everyone,

I am Johanna and I work in a diverse product team with developers and supporters. We're a Marketplace Partner based near the Dutch border in Germany.

An antiquated way of working is putting everything in a Google doc. It's messy and you can't find the things you're looking for even if you've linked everything or you have to scroll down ten pages to find the right link. I get that Google docs are a very good way to share work and collaborate but there are so many tools better than this (my favorite still being Jira).

What do you hope to get out of this group?

I've only just recently been introduced to Agile so I'm really curious to learn more.

What do you hope to bring to this group?

As I don't have much prior experience with the concept I hope that I'm able to bring a fresh experience from a complete new perspective to the table.

What is your favorite Jira configuration tip and why?

I've shared this recently under the Jira July configuration post and it's configuring a Kanban-Board for all your work. As I also have some other tasks than marketing ones I have everything in one place and don't need to look into three different places. And it helps me plan and prioritize easily.

Do you have a hobby or something you enjoy when not working?

I love to plan things outside of work as well including trips. And I really love gaming with friends (anything except video games is awesome).

Jonathan V_

Thanks

Sue Wilson

Good afternoon from sunny, hot, and humid Pennsylvania!

My name is Susan and I've been a JIRA/Confluence Admin for almost 15 years now.

1. What type of team or company do you work for?
I work for Visual Lease, a small, lease accounting software company. They were contracting out their JIRA Admin work until they decided to hire an in house admin....me! :-)

2. What is an antiquated way of working and how would you want to see it change?
Taking notes on paper, then transferring them to a 'recap' email, confluence page, etc. It would be so great for those who say they want to collaborate to open a meeting page in confluence and update as the meeting progresses. I introduced this at my last job and people were surprised at how easy it was and the time saved.

3. What do you hope to get out of this group?
I'm always learning so any conversations, insights, q&a that gives me more nuggets of knowledge to keep the learning process going are always appreciated.

4. What do you hope to bring to this group?
I hope to be able to meet people throughout the community, interact when we all just need a break, and be able to answer questions as well as asking them.

5. What is your favorite Jira configuration tip and why?
Favorite JIRA config tip: configure smarter, not harder. I worked for a large organization with many projects and new clients coming in very often. They were transitioning from waterfall to agile and wanted a way to spin up new projects quickly and effectively with each following same guidelines, at lease as far as processing tickets and providing reports went. So, I developed a base Project with repeatable configurations, so Copy Project could be used with minimal adjustments to the new project to change names and access. Took project start up from 1 week to ~4 hours when all was said and done. Also, alleviated a TON of maintenance nightmares for the JIRA Admin (ME!). :-D

6. Do you have a hobby or something you enjoy when not working?
I like to DIY...put together furniture, redo rooms, make my own cleaning & HBA products. I also love to quill & cross stitch when I find the time. Training and loving on a 4 month old puppy has reduced my down time significantly over the last 2 months! LOL But, I'm loving every minute!

Kalee Williams

@Sue Wilson Welcome to the group! We're happy you're here. Love you configuration tip!

Summer Hogan_q8imea

@Sue Wilson welcome to the group! We are happy to have you!

Robert Wen_Cprime_

Welcome!

Ramakrishna _RK_

Hi All,

Myself working as Jira admin almost from 5 years. Where I will work closely with Agile coaches and Scrum Masters. Happy to join this group.

Gabriela Costa _Appfire_

Hey everyone,

Just joined the group! I have been working with Appfire for more than a year and, just recently, have been more active in Atlassian Community.

I am based in Portugal. You might know us for the beaches or Cristiano Ronaldo, or even fado

I love to paint, although it has been hard to find the time lately, to play video games, bake and cook, and go on long walks.

Please feel free to comment on your favorite activities outside of work

Jonathan V_

Welcome @Gabriela Costa _Appfire_

Jonathan V_

Portugal is a beautiful city. I was able to see it (barely lol) during a layover I had on my way to Switzerland.

I would love to really be able to visit it and truly enjoy it for what it's worth.

Robert Wen_Cprime_

Welcome, @Gabriela Costa _Appfire_ !

Are fado those incredible egg custard tarts?

Sakina

Hello Everyone, i am jira administrator and my team is moving from waterfall to agile. Join this group to gain more knowledge of Agile.

Mayur Jadhav_30osel

Welcome to this group @Sakina

Robert Wen_Cprime_

Welcome!

Valerie Knapp_dpp5c6

Hello all, I'm Valerie and I am an Atlassian Consultant for atSistemas, based in Italy.

What do you hope to get out of this group?

I would like to hear all of the tips and tricks to try to support people to make changes to become more Agile. It can sometimes feel like the transition from Waterfall (or working in a spreadsheet / piece of paper / what have you) to Agile is a big jump, so I am all about helping people remove their barriers to success.

My Favourite Jira configuration tip and why?

It's not really a configuration tip but I know for me something that really made a difference was getting training and eventually certification on project administration. Like many of you, I'm sure, I started out as a Jira admin in a company because I had used it in a previous role. Jira's flexibility is great most of the time but it can cause the type of situation where, like me, in trying to be nice, you may have accidentally tied yourself in a knot. Getting some training helped me get a better overview of the impact "just one tiny change" was having cumulatively. Also understanding the product better means you can offer other suggestions or workarounds to avoid always having to change the configuration of a project or the system.

Do you have a hobby or something you enjoy when not working?

I like to read, the cinema, to visit with friends and family, cycle, take care of my terrace garden and to cook, so a little bit of everything!

vikram_eupqsc

Hi Everyone,

I am Vikram, from land of culture and heritage - India, having 13+ years of experience in DevOps tools, working for Health Care Organization.

I installed, configured and amanging Jira DC, Bitbucket DC and Confluence DC with 4 node cluster.

and also supporting Jira & Confluence SaaS verison.

Vikram P

Vicky Jotwani

Hi @vikram welcome

Peter Van de Voorde

Hey all,

I'm Peter, I'm a developer relations and community leader with a passion for helping people in the tech world excel at what they do.

I've been part of the old school Atlassian Answers crowd for years but haven't been able to be very active in the last couple of years due to a professional shift to the world outside of Atlassian. But now I'm back and I would love to learn from all of you and help you excel.

I've been passionated about agile for well over a decade now, I've spoken at developer conferences on topics like "The 7 evil, err Agile things you need to succeed", "A brief history of Agile" and other similar topics.

I strongly believe that Agile should be focussed on the people, not products or processes.

I'm also an AFOL (Adult fan of Lego) and a Boardgamegeek (with over 200 boardgames in my collection). And I also have a massive Atlassian t-shirt collection (including: Karma King, Atlassian Dragon Slayer, Jira Junior, and Angry Nerds).

I look forward to connecting with all of you.

Cheers,

Peter

John Funk

Well, there's being fashionably late as they say, and down right no excuse late. That's me for this group!

I'm John Funk and recently set out on my own as an independent consultant for all things Jira. And now working with Fringe Technologies, a Gold Solutions Partner.

Kanban is my main forte in the Agile world, though pretty much all of it is better than waterfall. (Send your letters to Jack Brickey if you disagree). Anyway, happy to be a part of the group!

Robert Wen_Cprime_

Always great to see you, @John Funk !

Mirek

Oh wow Peter, welcome back! I remember you back from Atlassian Answers . Nice to see that you are back to business.

P.s. Dragon Slayer is no longer maintained and a t-shirt is a relict now.. I also have it others that you mentioned including Karma King that live also somewhere in my wardrobe. Good to see more people from "old times" Cheers!

Peter Van de Voorde

Hi @Mirek ,

It's always good to see a familiar name.
I'm pretty sure I have a lot of really old Atlassian swag lying around that would now be considered a relic That's what happens when you've been a fan for such a long time.

It feels good to be back

Steven Mustari

Hello all,

I'm Steven an engineering lead at an enterprise solutions partner deploying, maintaining and working daily with the Atlassian stack.

I see so many cases of antiquated process in client environments. I think the biggest challenge is having people open their minds to change, and embracing moving towards what could be a better daily life. I guess you can look around and see that everywhere not just in business.

I love to see all the insights others provide, and am here to share my own experiences to help make anyones experience with Atlassian a better one.

I love spending time with my wife, mixing music, playing video games, and enjoying the outdoors.

Nice to meet everyone!

Robert Wen_Cprime_

Welcome!

Jess Sherman

Hello everyone! I currently work for an electric and hydrogen semi-truck start up company. I work on the hydrogen infrastructure side, developing project management tools to help my team succeed! I love to bake when I'm not working.

John Funk

Welcome, Steven!!

Karyna Tyrnavska _SaaSJet

Hello, community!

My name is Karyna, I work at SaaSJet StartUp. I really enjoy working with SaaS products and hope to have interesting discussions with community members.

Welcome, Jess!

Welcome, Karyna!

Welcome!

Hi Everyone,

I am Deepak an Technology Enthusiast and love to share my experience. After working into different industry I started sharing my experience on YouTube to help others from last 4 years I am sharing my knowledge on different social media. I joined our Atlassian group as a Mumbai Community Lead before 4 months.

I think I may come to like this group very much. Simply because even when implementing Atlassian tools, the agile mindset of both our customers and ourselves is way more important than the tools that support this.

I really hope to read some interesting views and learn from the many peers in this awesome Community. And I'll be happy to throw a pebble or two in the pond of agile discussions as well, every now and then.

Connect with me on my channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/DeepakRai/about

Best Regards,

Deepak R.

Robert Wen_Cprime_

Welcome!

Kalee Williams

We're happy you're here, @Jess Sherman

Kalee Williams

Welcome, @Karyna Tyrnavska _SaaSJet

Deepak Rai_r5xvri

Thank you @Robert Wen_Cprime_

Chrissy Clements

We've recently implemented Jira Software, and we have two divisions in the agile space; the PMO wants standardisation for consistency, easy onboarding, movement between teams, reporting etc., and the IM want to be able to customise everything from flows to fields to scrum vs kanban.

I'm keen to understand how other organisations have settled on a happy medium.

Karim ABO HASHISH

Hi, This is Karim Atlassian Team Lead in Orange Business Services, where JIRA is widely used for collaboration and process automation. Within my Team we deliver JIRA solutions Tailored to different business process Sales//Presales, Finance and HR.

We work in SCRUM (for Build) and Kanban (for Run). i can help with sharing my experience for Automating Sales/Pre-Sales process with CRM Integration for enriching the customer experience and accelerating loops closure especially in complex organization with many teams collaborating cross-functionally.

I hope one day Devops lifecycle can be a native part of JIRA for those who are delivering JIRA solutions.

Thanks again for this opportunity and looking forward to exchange with you.

Stefan Salzl

Hi everyone,

My name is Stefan and I am located in Vienna, Austria. I work as a selfemployed consultant for Atlassian Toolchain (mainly Jira in the software development area, Integration of/with Plugins, Process Automation) as well as guiding teams and companies in agile transformation (mainly software development area).

In my more than 15 years of experience in the area of software development (as QA engineer, TestManager as well as Scrum Master and Software Delivery Manager) I´ve experienced that a structured and common way of collaborition and communication and documentation are key for success.

I´ve been working with Jira for more than 10 years now and I love to combine my knowledge of processes (how teams work hands on) with my tool knowledge in Jira and Confluence to support teams and companies on their way so high quality work.

In my spare time I enjoy a lot of different things:

(believe it or not) I love to answer questions in the Atlassian community because I love to solve problems and get things working plus I learn so much new things there
I´m a passionate boulderer so I spend about 3 evenings a week at the climbing gym and all of my vacations are climbing trips
unfortunately there´s not much time left at the moment but I love to spend time with my latest hobby: welding It´s such a great feeling to work with steel and create things with your own hands.
also a pretty young one of my hobbies is riding my motorcycle

Pretty happy to be part of this great community here and looking forward to connect with some new people. Please don´t hesitate to drop some lines

Best
Stefan

Edward Quinito

Hi all,

I'm new here, my name is Edward and my job title is Technical Consultant Analyst and also act as a presales of Atlassian product in my company.

Hope to learn a lot from you guys!

Robert Wen_Cprime_

Welcome!

Sayed Bares [ServiceRocket]

Hello everyone,

My name is Sayed Bares, I am working as a senior engineer in ServiceRocket which is a platinum marketplace partner.

I'd like to understand the best agile practices and know success stories of agile methodology, after all, I love how agile evolved the project management industry and seeing real-life examples would bring a smile to my face.

At the same time, I would love to share my own experience after all sharing is caring.

My favourite Jira configuration is @mention macro it really encourages team collaboration.

When I am free, I love to go to hiking and do extreme sports.

Kalee Williams

Welcome, @Edward Quinito

We're happy you're here!

Kalee Williams

Welcome, @Stefan SalzlI'm excited to learn from you.

What has been your favorite climbing trip?

Kalee Williams

Welcome to the group, @Sayed Bares [ServiceRocket]

Stefan Salzl

Hi @Kalee Williams ,

Thanks so much. It‘s a whole big learning journey here for everybody. That‘s one thing I love most about this community.

Hmmm....for sure one of the most fascinating trips was Fontainbleau. Nevertheless I travel to Zillertal severa times a year and each of those trips is a blast. Zillerta feels like a second homebase meanwhile as I‘ve been there so often

Are you into climbing too?

Best
Stefan

Marta Woźniak-Semeniuk_m044pw

Hey All

My name is Marta and I am an Agile Coach

What type of team or company do you work for?
I work in an IT company - Scalac
What is an antiquated way of working and how would you want to see it change?
Thinking that we can do some parts of work totally alone and then just assemble it to get a perfect outcome - we need more deep collaboration and commitment.
Do you have a hobby or something you enjoy when not working?
I am an avid reader - not a bookworm, but a book dragon Mostly sci-fi and criminal stories

Asif Mohammed_95rouo

Hi, Asif Mohammed from Trinidad and Tobago. I'm seeking to get into agile in hope of applying it energy efficiency and clean energy projects. I believe an antiquated way of working is the 8 to 4 syndrome. My none academic passion is photography.