Community 5x5 Round-up: March 2025
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!
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First up, you’ve probably noticed that the URL for the Online Community has changed. If you were wondering why, because sure to read the announcement for details. I can’t wait to see the larger plans Atlassian has in store for the community.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Announcement-articles/Community-release-note-and-maintenance-notice-for-March-5-6-2025/ba-p/2962518 -
Next up, you may have missed the first couple, so be sure to check the replays and sign up for the last two events (one of which is today!). The Atlassian team is demoing a number of the AI use cases they have released. If you are looking to get into Atlassian Intelligence, this might give you some inspiration on how best to make use of it.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Intelligence-articles/Introducing-the-quot-How-we-built-this-quot-ACE-series/ba-p/2969207 -
Are you interested in knowing how the Atlassian Marketing team plans and prepares for a Team event? They have pulled back the curtain and provided a nice walkthrough of everything that goes into planning and specifically how they have prepared for Team '25.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/CASE-STUDY-How-Event-Marketing-at-Atlassian-planned-Team-25-by/ba-p/2970018 -
Speaking of both AI & Team ‘25 if you are attending Team '25 in person and would like to be involved in a round table discussion about using Rovo as a part of your AI strategy, you should sign up for a spot. Space is limited so you’ll want to act fast.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Official-Atlassian-Events/AI-strategy-conversations-with-AI-practitioners-and-Rovo-experts/ba-p/2971074 -
Finally, if you are going to be in Seoul, consider grabbing your free ticket for Atlassian Team on Tour. Which will be taking place in May. It may seem like a fair ways off right now, but it will be here before you know it.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Official-Atlassian-Events/We-re-excited-to-announce-that-registration-is-live-and-free-for/ba-p/2970009
Member Article Highlights:
As always, there are a TON of amazing articles written by many of your fellow community members. This is just a small sample of all the great content you don’t want to miss out on!
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First up, I’ve learned that one of the best things you can do to successfully implement agile is to continually learn from others. @Dick has written a wonderful perspective on agile and I would encourage everyone at all points in their agile journey to check it out.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Agile/The-benefits-of-Agile-project-management/ba-p/2968482 -
Have you started using Loom yet? I haven’t really gotten into it myself. However, if you wanted to learn more, @Kai Krause Kai Krause has done a fantastic job of sharing some great use cases on how you might best use Loom. I’d recommend checking this out if you are considering adding Loom to your Atlassian stack.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Loom-articles/Using-Loom-for-Asynchronous-Communication-A-Positive-Experience/ba-p/2973281 -
Do you want to know how to become an effective Jira Admin? @Tomislav Tobijas has shared his own personal journey from first starting to use Jira, To becoming an admin and utilizing the community & university to learn, To becoming a certification powerhouse! If you want something and someone to aspire to be, you should read through this wonderful story.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Training-Certification-articles/How-I-became-an-effective-Jira-Admin/ba-p/2966019 -
Next, @Hrudu Shibu has put together a great summary of the important information and key dates for everything that is changing in JSM incident management as Opsgenie is being dissolved and rolled into JSM properly. If you are impacted by these changes you might want to review this.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Opsgenie-Migration/The-Evolution-of-IT-Operations-Opsgenie-s-Transition-into/ba-p/2968088 -
Finally, for those of you starting to plan for Team '25, @Kashmira Shukla has written a great summary of a number of great sessions you might want to consider adding to your Team '25 agenda.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Training-Certification-articles/Which-learning-session-at-Team-25-Anaheim-are-you-most-excited/ba-p/2971375
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!
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First up, Atlassian is dropping the term “Issue“ and replacing it with “Work“. Why are they doing this? Jira has evolved a lot since it first started as an issue tracking software for Software development teams, and that means that it’s being used by many different types of teams now so they wanted a term that was a little more inclusive for everyone.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/It-s-here-Work-is-the-new-collective-term-for-all-items-you/ba-p/2954892 -
Next, something I personally have been waiting for, “Teams” within Jira and other Atlassian products can now be centrally managed and even SCIM-synced. For large customers that need more control over the management of these teams, this is the perfect mechanism which also allows you to take full advantage of everything that teams provide.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Managed-Teams-are-now-available-for-Premium-and-Enterprise/ba-p/2961735 -
If you are one of the early adopters that have already started using Rovo, you will be pleased to know that you can now add Rovo to any Premium/Enterprise Sandbox environment. If you haven’t started using Rovo yet, you may be interested to know that this also works for a Rovo trial license.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Intelligence-articles/Now-try-Rovo-on-Sandboxes/ba-p/2964185 -
Are you a Compass fan? New ChatOps options are available so that you can receive Compass alerts and have actions to respond to them directly from within Slack.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Compass-articles/Introducing-Compass-s-ChatOps-app-for-Slack-for-alert-and-on/ba-p/2960916 -
Finally, for everyone that has been using Loom, you can now take advantage of a canvas to display talking points without having to share your desktop and/or prepare a presentation in advance.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Loom-articles/Add-a-canvas-to-your-Loom-recording/ba-p/2963430
Trending discussions you should join:
Want to join in on some trending discussions? Be sure to check these out!
Automation Corner:
Looking for inspiration to optimize your processes? Check out some of the cool things people are doing with automation!
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!
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