Only in the last year did I start to truly understand the scale of the Atlassian community. I always knew the community website existed and have loved the openness and help received from it. But this last year I felt like I wanted to do more to give back. I felt like coming a community leader was the right step. Bring small intimate events to Atlassian enthusiasts like myself to the south outside of London.

Last week we managed to see this all the way through. We finally managed to launch the ACE Solent chapter last week. This week I just wanted to discuss a little on the community, why it is vital to product success and a little on this specific event.

If you haven’t worked this out yet, you must have been living under a rock. This year, we return to Vegas, for what is guaranteed to be an amazing week. Team ‘23, the Flagship Atlassian event that will bring us all the big announcements and opportunities for us Atlassian enthusiasts to meet up and get chatting.

Before we get chatting about the schedule that was released this week in detail and where you may be able to find me, lets just remind ourselves of the four tracks you can align to.

So that’s a wrap for here in Berlin. Atlassian Unleash was a blast for so many reasons, including having a chance to present with Appfire on reducing tech debt, so lets break it down and see what we learnt. Atlassian wanted the Unleash event to deep dive into the agile & DevOps experiences within the ecosystem. We saw the keynote focus on some of Atlassian’s newest adventures in the form of Jira Product Discovery & Compass.

Jira has always been a widely customisable and comprehensive application. It’s highly useful in many companies because it allows teams to work in their own individual ways, without affecting other teams. However, if not properly managed, Jira can end up with huge maintenance time for administrators. This blog contains some quick easy steps on hot topics for how to get and keep your Jira under control.