X-Ray for Atlassian Admins - December 2024

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G’day Atlassian Community! Welcome to December’s edition of GitProtect DevSecOps X-Ray! 🦁

📚 News & Resources

Blog Post 📝 | Best creative project management software to boost collaboration
Creative project management includes flexible planning, workflow customization, task automation, and collaborative tracking. This enables smooth execution all the way from just an idea to delivery across marketing, design, and product teams! Find out Atlassian's own compilation of project management tools. 

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Blog Post 📝 | Streamline release notes creation with Confluence and Jira
Release notes are essential for keeping customers and team members updated on what’s new – whether it’s bug fixes, feature updates, or major releases. A release note that emphasizes value drives customer adoption and engagement, while internally, it ensures everyone is on the same page. In this article, Atlassian recommends ways to create and share release notes.

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Blog Post 📝 | Cyber Resilience Act: What Does It Mean For Your Digital Business?
Businesses are urged to adopt secure development practices, continuous compliance, and robust risk management strategies. Bear in mind, that compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), does improve security but it also facilitates trust in the face of growing cyber threats. CRA comes into force on December 10th, 2024. 

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Blog Post 📝 | Expanding Custom Merge Checks to the Workspace and Project level
Improve the code quality standards with Bitbucket’s expanded merge checks. Now you can configure at both workspace and project levels (Premium-only feature). This is a step towards better consistency and governance across your development teams.

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Blog Post 📝 | DevOps Data Protection Strategy – Why Shouldn’t You Limit Only To Daily Backups?
Your DevOps and Jira data is in constant growth… every hour your team of developers pushes changes, merges branches, and does some fixes. Your Project Managers are creating and submitting new issues all day round. This requires your backup strategy to be flexible and adaptive, catching all the changes you make. Custom DevOps backup policies and schedulers - that's the answer.

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🗓️ Upcoming Events

Webinar 🪐 | Supercharge development with Bitbucket & Atlassian Cloud | Dec 5, 2024
Find out how to improve development workflows with Bitbucket Cloud. Check out the potential integrations with Jira and Compass, CI/CD capabilities, and the overall role of AI in today's productivity. Are you looking to simplify and accelerate delivery workflows with built-in CI/CD, AI, and automation? Then, take a look. 

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Event 🪐 | Year-End Festive Gathering | Thank You 2024 & Welcome 2025! | Dec 6, 2024 | Dublin, Ireland
Let’s celebrate the achievements of 2024 and start to prepare for 2025 which is just around the corner! From this ACE you can expect engaging discussions, gratitude, and a cheerful atmosphere to wrap up the year with all up-to-date information. 

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Virtual Event 🪐 | Are you smarter than a Jira admin? | Dec 19, 2024
What better way to test your knowledge than a fun, Christmas-themed quiz for Jira enthusiasts? Take advantage of technical aspects in Jira and do direct feature challenges and scenario-based questions to help you polish your skills.

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