Community FiveByFive: May 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, The latest update to Kudos includes fixes, new levels, challenges and a shiny new badge. If you want to learn more about these, go check out the article.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Community-Kudos-Feedback/Kudos-release-notes-for-May-2-2025/ba-p/3012186 -
Next, in the latest Community update, there are a number of fixes and new changes that have been rolled out with refresh of the community UI. I would encourage everyone to check this out and see what new features are available to you.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Announcement-articles/Community-release-notes-for-May-12-2025/ba-p/3019837 -
Next, if you are planning to attend Team '25 in Europe, the Call of speakers has opened. You might want to consider submitting a session to become a speaker at that event. If you are interested, you should check the article for details.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Official-Atlassian-Events/Team-25-Europe-Call-for-Speakers-is-Open-we-want-to-hear-your/ba-p/3017313 -
I have combined the next two together, there are two new bite-sized learning lessons posted that will get you up to speed on some of the JSM Alerting capabilities that have come with the merge of Opsgenie. Check them out and earn your badges!
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Opsgenie-Migration-articles/Bite-sized-Learning-Setting-Up-On-Call-Schedules/ba-p/3012361
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/JSM-News-Discussions-articles/Bite-sized-Learning-ChatOps-Capabilities-for-Alert-Management/ba-p/3020819 -
Finally, there is yet another quiz and badge you can earn, but this one is about knowing and understanding the Community guidelines. I would encourage everyone, new members and veterans alike to earn this badge and prove that you know exactly what it means to be a member of this wonderful community.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Community-Kudos-Feedback/Become-a-Mindful-Member-and-complete-the-Community-Guidelines/ba-p/3014307
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 love hearing about everyone’s certification journey! @Kai Krause has delivered a wonderful post that I would encourage everyone thinking about taking a certification to read.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Training-Certification-articles/My-Journey-with-Atlassian-Professional-and-Associate/ba-p/3010940 -
Next, @Stephen_Lugton has given us a great reminder that Jira shouldn’t dictate the way your teams work. You should configure Jira to match your teams practices. He has also offered a few tips you might want to check out.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Don-t-change-your-team-to-fit-Jira-customise-Jira-to-fit-your/ba-p/2841414 -
Next, @Sara_Schneider has put together a great 'How To' guide about using the Jira Cloud app in outlook, to send emails to Jira as Work items. If this sounds intriguing to you, go read the full article to learn how.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Contributors-articles/Adding-Outlook-Emails-to-A-Jira-Project-as-a-Work-Item-or-Task/ba-p/3020783 -
This may be a hot take to include, but I think @Dwight Holman has done an extremely professional job of providing the criticisms that Atlassian needs to hear about the new navigation. If you haven’t seen it yet, you will want to read this to see what’s coming. If you have, you might want to own thoughts to the comments.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Navigation-Refresh-articles/Our-feelings-about-the-New-Nav/ba-p/3021131 -
Finally, @Aditya_miniOrange provided some wonderful insights into their journey to Anaheim for Team '25 and I really enjoyed reading it, and I think you will too!
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Official-Atlassian-Events/From-Hollywood-to-Rovo-wood-My-Team-25-Recap/ba-p/3023694
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, there are a number of resources that have come out recently to help you understand what Jira Product Discovery is and how to get up and running quickly. This post is an aggregation of everything that has come out recently and a wonderful collection to bookmark for future use.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Product-Discovery-articles/Jira-Product-Discovery-Resources-Roundup/ba-p/3016500 -
Next, a number of AI improvements are coming to JSM as of Team ‘25 and I can’t wait to try all of them. From enhancements to virtual agents to intelligent knowledge bases & enhanced incident detection, if this sounds cool, you should check out the whole article.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Team-25-recap-New-AI-capabilities-in-Jira-Service-Management/ba-p/3013875 -
For my Confluence friends, a redesign has been done to the analytics page to help you see what content is getting engagement from how long people are staying on a page to how people are discovering a page in the first place. If this has caught your interest, please read through the full article for more details.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/NEW-features-to-help-you-see-how-users-are-engaging-with-your/ba-p/3020929 -
Next, the “new“ Trello is currently in beta and will be rolled out to everyone soon. If you want a sneak peek at what’s coming soon, be sure to read this post.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Trello-articles/The-new-Trello-is-coming-soon-to-everyone/ba-p/3015921 -
Finally, in case you’ve missed it, Rovo is getting a connector for Confluence Data Center! The thing to remember here is that you can only use your Confluence Data Center as a search source for Rovo in Cloud, this is NOT Rovo for Data Center. However, for those of you in the process of moving to Cloud, you can easily search your Data Center instance while you move without having to do everything in a big bang upgrade.
https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Intelligence-articles/Confluence-Data-Center-joins-the-Rovo-connector-family/ba-p/3014972
Feedback Opportunities:
What’s the best way to get what you want out of the Atlassian Apps? Share your feedback often! Atlassian’s Product Managers are always looking to hear from customer about our thoughts on what they have delivered and what they are planning to deliver in the near future. If you want to be an active participant, 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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